Empower the voices of the world @ Zencastr. If you want to push the world of podcasting into the future, come join a team who loves to live on the edge! We are a fully distributed team of smart people who are passionate about changing the world one voice at a time.
You should join us if you:
Have significant experience with Node.js and good knowledge of JS fundamentals
Have a good understanding of computer science fundamentals. You might not have gone to school for it, but you know the difference between heap and stack, different time complexities, and which patterns to use and when.
You are ambitious. You might want to build your own company one day or have tried to tackle the toughest tech problems just for fun.
You enjoy writing Javascript or Typescript
You have an eye for performance. Whether thinking about the latest client side bundling techniques, or the proper way to shard a mongo database, you want things to be fast.
You are just as comfortable working in a browser context or a node.js runtime
You are a team player
You have good communication skills
What sets you apart:
You have a passion for high performance applications
You have significant open source contributions
You want to work in a fast growing startup. Which comes with the blood, sweat and tears of working to disrupt an established industry
You have empathy for the end user. A spec is a conversation starter, as an advocate for the end user you always are thinking about how to best serve their needs
You have an eye for code quality and you strive to uphold best practices in engineering, security, and design
Why you should choose us:
You’ll be working with world class engineers, Phd’s, and designers in a fully distributed team
Work in an agile and fast changing environment
Equity commensurate to your contribution in a profitable company
Health insurance
Unique challenges and the support and talent to solve them
4 weeks PTO
Freedom to work where you please
What we’re looking for:
5+ years of Typescript, React, Node.js development
Strong document / key-value store knowledge (Redis, MongoDB)
Strong SQL knowledge
Strong HTML / CSS / React knowledge
Demonstrable knowledge of building scaleable consumer based apps
Strong experience with unit, integration, and load testing
Experience building APIs
Experience with cloud APIs (Google Cloud, Digital Ocean)
Bonus points if you have:
Experiencing working in high traffic, low latency applications
Good dev ops experience
Digital Signal Processing experience
Strong SQL knowledge
How to apply:
Apply at https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/zencastr/c4c91cc0-c5f9-4773-ab04-d239f9455aee
We are flexible! For the right candidate we ask: What do you need to do your best work?