closed vacancy Senior Full Stack Developer - Front-end Leaning (Python and Node) - remote

Build delightful software for podcasts and spoken word audio. Backtracks is seeking a qualified Senior Full Stack Developer to join our Product &Engineering Team. Remote work is possible/is currently the only option.

Opportunity

Backtracks helps audio content creators and brands know and grow their audience and revenue. You will be responsible for building the client-side and middle tier solutions of our web applications and platform to deliver delightful experiences to our users.

Your day-to-day...

• Design and implement improvements to new and existing portions of our platform, website, and applications
• Improve appeal and usability of our different products
• Code and deploy new features in collaboration with our product and engineering teams
• Be part of a small team, with a large amount of ownership and responsibility for managing things directly
• Ship high-quality solutions with a sense of urgency
• Work closely with both internal and external stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution
• Work across front-end and middle tier of the stack
• Have the freedom to suggest and drive initiatives

We expect you to be a tech-savvy professional, who is curious about new digital technologies and aspires to combine usability with visual design. Ultimately, you should be able to create a functional and attractive digital environment for our company, ensuring great user experience.

You have...

• History of autonomous design decision making at technically focused companies
• History of designing and building web components, products, and technology
• Experience working on design and development in any of the following roles:
  • Product Developer
  • Product Engineer
  • Front-end Designer and Developer
  • Front-end Engineer
  • UI Designer/Developer
  • Full Stack Engineer
  • Full Stack Developer
  • Python Developer
  • Python Engineer
  • JavaScript Engineer
  • JavaScript Developer
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
• Strong knowledge of:
  • Javascript (ES6+)
  • Python 3.x
  • Know when to use immutable types, observables, reactive patterns, reduce, spread, etc.
    • You also know and subscribe to simple is better (you know when plain JavaScript with no framework is best)
  • CSS, SCSS
  • Compilation, bundling, and packaging via Webpack, Babel, etc.
  • Front-end frameworks (specifically Vue or React)
  • Node.js and npm
• Confidence or experience working with:
  • Typescript
  • CSS-in-JS
  • Front-end test frameworks (Cypress, Jest)
  • Experience with front-end build/deployment processes (Webpack, Babel)
• Strong design skills including understanding of layout aesthetics
• Motivation and an enjoyment for a startup environment
• Systematic thinker (consider how components can scale across our platform and product offerings)
• The ability to code and build out designs independently from no mock up all the way to working CSS/HTML/JS
• A blend of product, system, and people knowledge that lets you jump into a fast paced environment and contribute from day one
• An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions
• Strong work sense of ownership
• Strong collaboration and communication skills (fluency in English)
• PMA (Positive Mental Attitude)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, relevant field, and/or relevant work experience
• 5+ years professional experience

Other qualities and traits...

• Passion for podcasts, radio, and spoken word audio
• Passion for delivering high-quality deliverables  (e.g. you ship)
• A product-first approach to building software
• An enthusiasm for hard problems
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment

Bonus points if you have experience with...

• Web performance (time-to-interactive, dependencies, wasted renders)
• Node-based serverside APIs
• Building Python-based REST APIs
• Apache AirFlow
• Audio analysis and processing
• Some or all of the following:
  • Flask, Sanic, Apache Mod WSGI
  • PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras
  • Spark, Flink
  • Jinja2, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
  • SQLAlchemy
  • Celery
  • Solr, Elasticsearch, or Lucence
  • AWS, Google Cloud, Azure
  • CI/CD deployment processes