About you:

 

• You’ll be a core part of the development team, working on both our main and auxiliary products ( Visual Dictionary, Internal CMS tools). This means a lot of ownership, which we cultivate by having a flat structure.
  
   


• You’re a no-nonsense person, who is comfortable taking on larger projects, who has been working in working at a product company and has extensive front-end development experience.
  
   


• You have been working with React or React Native for years, have deep knowledge of everything that’s happening in the browser or in a mobile client and looking for challenges in growing a product from an already large userbase to tens of millions of MAU, with all the complexity that’s involved in that.
  
   


• You strongly prefer static typing over dynamic languages, and use every opportunity to transform code that doesn’t use types into code that does. You generally prefer to use a minimal set of simple tools to a diverse range of complex ones.
  
   


• You like to have a variety of projects - at this job, you’ll be developing a complex web app, a static site generator (react-static), building internal automation infrastructure/tools and contributing to our internal content management system.
  
   


• We’re building a small, but super capable team. You’re naturally more interested in the fate of the product & driven to grow professionally than in managing people.
  
   

We are looking for a missionary rather than a mercenary.

You will:

• Work cross functionally with our designer / data analyst / backend developer / project owner to define, scope, estimate and plan various aspects of the product.


• Work independently and with other engineers to develop new web experiences..


• Support of production applications / sites that you’ve built or helped to build.


• Communicate effectively and often to ensure that everyone is aligned.

What’d be different here:

• We’re a small team. We’re optimising for impact, not for headcount. You’ll be carefully considering any tradeoff that would lead to increased complexity.


• We’re using a single programming language - TypeScript. We have strict linter rules. Every pull request needs to be approved before it lands in master. We use the rebase workflow.


• We’re using React + Redux to develop UI, on both mobile and the web. We use selectors extensively. Our backend is on AWS, deployed to Lambda.


• We’re doing things in a functional way, concentrating state, minimising side effects and making dependencies explicit. We’re sharing 98%+ of the code between Android, iOS and Web.


• We’re writing software with a web developer’s mindset.


• We automate where it has positive ROI.


• Our biggest challenge is (and will remain): managing the complexity of sharing a lot of code between different apps.


• We’re not building a hierarchy. We’re encouraging everyone to be autonomous.

You have:

• At least 5 years of experience in software (product) development.


• At least 2 years of experience in building with React or React Native.


• Experience architecting and developing complex web or mobile apps and static sites.


• Some experience in understanding basic funnels, and collaborating with support to resolve user-facing issues.


• Project management experience (everyone is managing projects at our company).


• Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work well cross-functionally.


• Experienced in strongly typed languages, and/or Typescript/Flow.