About the job
Who we are
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/React/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.
👉 You must have deep experience with understanding GraphQL Schemas and writing GraphQL code to succeed in this role
👉 You must be able to translate a Figma design to a pixel accurate renditions in React
How we strive to work
* Pixels Matter
* 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)
* 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
* GraphQL
* Github
* 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 / GraphQL and associated technologies.
* You wrote production level code this week
* You regularly, and happily, debug and resolve production issues
