closed vacancyDeveloper Advocate - remote

Jack Henry &Associates, Inc.®
Posted 4 years ago $100k - 145k (US Dollars)

Banno is redefining the relationship between forward-thinking financial institutions and their customers. Banno leverages bleeding edge technology and an industry leading product vision to make user-friendly mobile and web apps. We build front end applications natively in both Android and iOS as well as using modern web components.

About You

You are infinitely curious and thrive in an environment where you are constantly learning and growing. You want to be somewhere that you are trusted and set up for success every day. You want to be somewhere that surrounds you with other great engineers that drive you to be better everyday.

Although you work with multiple teams you are self motivated and able to work with independence. You have experienced good developer experiences and poor developer experiences. You have an itch to make a great developer experience. You care deeply about your work, your teams, and the end user.

Banno values trust and those with a bias towards action. We have a remote-first culture that challenges you each day and supports your growth. We are confident you will love it here.

What you are working on

In short, you'll be advocating for the needs of developers whether they are 3rd party developers or internal engineers.The Developer Advocate is the primary public interface for evangelizing Banno’s API, developer toolkit, and plugin ecosystem while assisting outside developers in building new and interesting products with Banno.

The Developer Advocate is constantly creating new proof of concept projects to demonstrate inventive new things to do with Banno’s API. The Developer Advocate publicly discusses Banno’s API on social media as well as presents at conferences. The Developer Advocate writes technical guides, tutorials, and reference docs for https://jackhenry.dev.

About the Banno team

We are committed to creativity, thoughtfulness, culture, and openness—the perfect place to make phenomenal products that have a big impact. Our work environment echoes a modern tech startup but we have the security and benefits of a large, publicly traded company. With an engineering team of over 100, we place a high value on continued education and also contribute to--and use--open source projects.

Our team is distributed and that means you can live and work wherever you want within the US. You’ll get the chance to choose your own tools, work with bleeding edge web technologies across the stack and contribute to products that are used by millions of people.

Travel of up to 25% may be required for company meetings, professional development, and public speaking at conferences.

Must be U.S. based.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Minimum 6 years of programming experience.
  • Experience with one of these modern JavaScript frameworks;Angular, React, Vue, or Polymer.
  • Must have experience presenting at a conference, industry group or local development groups.
  • Experience being in a customer facing role as an engineer.

Bonus Points

  • Proof of concept applications built for various APIs on GitHub.
  • Examples of great communication: documentation, blog posts and video blogs.
  • Active professional presence on Twitter.

Essential Functions

  • Gain industry recognition and credibility as a regular attendee, panelist, and keynote speaker at meetups, technology conferences, trade shows, and press events
  • Advocate for developers internally and craft narratives around new releases and features by working with Product Management, Engineering, and other cross-functional teams.
  • Write, curate, and edit developer resources: tutorials, examples, guides, and documentation.
  • Deliver compelling presentations, product demos, sample solutions, and discussions to drive adoption of company products and services
  • Create screencasts, white papers, and tutorials about emerging technologies and industry developments
  • Maintain a strong and credible presence in social media channels relevant to developers
  • Work with worldwide counterparts to share best practices and help build a best-in-the-industry developer advocacy organization
  • Collaborate and cultivate trust with both the product and the developers. Facilitate dialogue to drive achievement of objectives and a better developer experience.
  • Develop a process to solicit, gather, and organize feedback from both internal and external stakeholders to improve and extend the developer experience, product offering, and platform ecosystem.