We’re a small startup team of 3 (frontend, backend, everything else) rethinking how Talent find jobs and how teams find Talent. We’re putting Talent first (that’s you!), reducing the noise, and stamping out the evil that is ghosting! Check out info.talentverse.com for more details. We’re operating as a small startup inside a larger tech-focused recruiting agency (Talentful). We recruit for the best of the best, including greats like OpenAI, DeepMind, SandboxAQ, Microsoft, Atlassian, Google X, Asana, Airalo, Wise, and many many more.
What we're looking for
Our founding frontend engineer is heading out on a 6 month world wide tour, so we’re looking for a software engineer who is open to contracting (at least initially) with 10-15 years experience who loves writing frontend code (Typescript/GraphQL), cares about the user, has a strong attention detail, and loves solving problems. We are geographically distributed with our backend engineer UTC+3 (Turkey) and Founder UTC-7 (California), so ideally you are located in UTC-5 (or willing to work UTC-5) so as to overlap both sides of the team.
What you'll be doing
As the frontend lead you will take ownership of the code structure, internal patterns and programming methods used to build the Talentverse. You will collaborate closely with our Founder and backend engineer to design launch new features, triage problems, and fix bugs using whatever tools and techniques are most appropriate. Our stack is written in Typescript/GraphQL for the frontend, and Java/Python for the backend, running on top of AWS. We design in Figma, and use Coda/Slack/Zoom to collaborate.
How we strive to work
Don’t be annoying, and don’t be easily annoyed
Bring the person you want to be to work
Design Matters
UX matters most
Programming is a team sport
We ship daily.
Unused code is debt
Pragmatic over Dogmatic
Kanban not Scrum
Code not estimates
Debate over Deliberation
We like discussions and problem solving with our teammates live
We have daily zoom standups
We’re present when we’re present, zoom is camera on
Tickets are for tracking not discussion
If it’s blocked, unblock it
Waiting is losing
How we strive to engineer (*startup rules apply, pragmatic over dogmatic for sure)
If AWS solves it, we use it
Feature flags over Branches
You write some code you write some (unit & integration) tests
Key Value Stores over Relational Databases
We instrument and monitor all the things
Our Tools
Java and Typescript/React
Github / Github CoPilot
AWS
Slack
Coda
Zoom
Visual Studio
IntelliJ
Whatever else we need
About you
You love software engineering, the profession, the craft.
You appreciate and strive for great user experience and visual design
You care about the user, security, uptime, reliability and performance
You are driven to ship
You care about the tools
You care about the developer experience
You care about modern programming techniques (BDD / XP)
You’re a constant learner with an open mind
You strongly believe engineering is always in service of delivering great experiences.
You balance when you need to write deeply tested bullet proof code, and when you just need to ship.
Pixels that don’t line up drive you insane
Dan North’s missive on CUPID resonates with you: https://dannorth.net/2022/02/10/cupid-for-joyful-coding/
What you’ve done
You regularly happily and successfully help others come up to speed on code bases and programming techniques
You’ve built a number of highly performant SPA’s in your years
You’ve added instrumentation to your code base to satisfy your curiosity and make sure it works.
You’ve spent 8+ years working with JavaScript / Typescript / React and associated technologies.
You wrote production level code this week
You regularly, and happily, debug and resolve production issues
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Contract
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Technology, Information and Internet
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