Fullstack Developer - remote

The Recount
Posted 4 years ago
We Work Remotely
Are you a programmer interested in politics? Come work with us!

The Recount is a media startup backed by A-list investors including USV and True Ventures focused on high quality journalism and short form video with a simple mission – to deliver the news that matters in good faith and without wasting your time or insulting your intelligence.

The Recount is hiring an experienced frontend software engineer to to help build the future of news consumption. As one of the first full-time engineers on the team, you’ll have the opportunity to own the entire development lifecycle of our web product and help shape the engineering best-practices and culture of our growing team. You will work closely with designers, engineers and editors to create delightful consumer experiences that push the boundaries of video consumption on the web.


Who you are:
  • You care about shipping high quality, performant, and maintainable code AND creating delightful user experiences
  • You have strong experience writing client-side web code using React, Vue, Ember or similar modern JS web framework.
  • You have experience building server-side applications with NodeJS, Ruby, Python or similar.
  • You want to work in a product-driven startup environment and are thoughtful about when to move fast and when to do things right

We care deeply about building a diverse team, and supporting every team member in their career and skill growth. We are dedicated to creating and maintaining a respectful workplace that values everyone on our team bringing their whole selves to work. We are committed to paying market-competitive compensation.