Lead Full Stack Developer

About our client

Our client is an early-stage startup with a mission to re-invent construction software. Their SaaS solution helps construction companies find subcontractors, send out requests for proposals, and manage the pre-construction bidding process more productively. With their solution, construction professionals have greater visibility into their purchasing processes and become more efficient in their daily work.

Our client is a product-centric company as their success is a direct result of the quality and reliability of their solution. Therefore, they believe in maintaining a strong engineering culture where talented individuals have the freedom to express themselves in the product features they design and build.

Finally, they are backed by excellent investors and maintain an extensive network of partners in the construction industry, both of which help them sustain their growth.

Tasks

As a Lead Full Stack Developer, you will work on the frontend as well as the backend side of our client’s product and therefore will take full ownership over the features you are creating. You will also provide guidance to other team members on best practices and architectural decisions. After you develop a comprehensive understanding of the components of their product, you are given full responsibility to extend them and build on them in ways that makes their product more valuable, more reliable and better structured to ensure future maintainability.

Specifically, they have a frontend based on React and a backend written in Node.js. They interface with each other using GraphQL and Apollo. Our client utilize TypeScript for the entire codebase to improve code quality and reliability. They use relational databases as well as Elasticsearch. They write comprehensive end-to-end tests using Cypress in addition to unit tests. Our client’s infrastructure is based on AWS and Kubernetes. They have a well-functioning CI/CD pipeline and deploy to production multiple times a day.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of hands-on software engineering experience
• Substantial experience working with React, and ideally with Node.js
• Profound experience with JavaScript and familiarity with TypeScript
• Generalist mindset; eagerness to learn about new technologies and tackle unfamiliar problems
• Experience in agile product teams as a contributor
• Startup mindset and pragmatic, hands-on attitude
• Fluency in English and good communication skills

Benefits

• Opportunity to shape a valuable, impactful product in a meaningful way
• Full ownership over your responsibilities and tasks
• Fully remote team, spread across Europe
• Casual startup environment with no bureaucracy and no complex processes
• Competitive compensation
• Flexible working hours and working from home policy
• Hardware of your choice (e.g. Macbook Pro)

They are looking forward to receiving your application!