\nThe 18-person engineering team at Help Scout is full of people dedicated to a wonderful experience for our 5,000+ customers in more than 60 countries. We work remotely and autonomously for the most part, which is why this position requires senior-level skill and experience.\n\nThe ideal engineer for this position loves building RESTful APIs and other web services at scale. You relish the opportunity to take on a challenging problem, choose the right tool for the job and build an elegant, scalable solution.\n\n\nTools We Use\n\n\n* Java 8\n\n* Play framework\n\n* MySQL, MongoDB, Solr\n\n* RabbitMQ\n\n* Git\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Role\n\n\n* You will be working with another Java engineer to own the back end API and presentation of our Docs Knowledgebase product. On a daily basis, you'll work on improving existing code, adding new functionality and API endpoints all with a focus on testing and documentation.\n\n* You'll be working with product people. Your leaders are technical and committed to creating a magical experience for customers. You'll deploy excellent work that moves the needle for businesses around the world.\n\n\n\n\nWho You'll Work With\n\n\n* Owen Convey, Engineer - Owen is the lead engineer on Docs and will be your guide to get up to speed and collaborate as needed.\n\n* Denny Swindle, CTO and Co-founder - Denny is the lead architect and is very involved in the planning, documentation and implementation of the project you'll be working on.\n\n* Chris Brookins, VP Engineering - Chris leads the engineering team and works hard to make sure everyone is working on the right things. You’ll report directly to him.\n\n\n

// THE OPPORTUNITY\nWe’re getting ready to launch our new product in early 2015 and we need a skilled front-end developer with experience using AngularJS to join our development and engineering team. This is a contract role that will lead to a FT position for the right candidate. In this role, you’ll work closely with our team to build and maintain the code base, troubleshoot bugs, build new features, and ultimately create the best user experience possible for our customers. As a front-end expert, you possess technical magic and kung-fu skills that you’ll use regularly to win over our customers.\n\n// WHAT YOU’LL DO\n- Turn product designs into working features in the product.\n- Provide client & server side development services.\n- Champion our assets delivery pipeline.\n- Collaborate with the design team on UI/UX developments and ideas.\n- Solve complex problems related to front-end development.\n- Help us to optimize and improve our website and application.\n\n// DESIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE\n- You have a few years of front-end experience.\n- Have great communication skills.\n- You’re a master at juggling multiple tasks.\n- GitHub or BitBucket profile - we’d love to see some code!\n- Proficient at using Git\n- Proficient with HTML5, CSS3, LESS, JavaScript (Including jQuery & AngularJS).\n- Experience with SVGs and Bootstrap.\n- You’re the little extras that make a great user experience - animations, user-centered design, wit & humor.\n- Responsive design is natural to you.\n- You love solving problems and understand the demands of a milestone driven startup.\n- Ability to prioritize tasks and schedule your time effectively.\n- Have a degree in Computer Science or other relevant field, or the equivalent combination of education and experience.\n\n// BONUS POINTS:\n- Experience working with D3 charts and graphs is a plus.\n- Back-end dev skills such as MySQL, Python, and/or Django.\n- Experience in using RESTful API services through AngularJS.\n- Experience working in a startup environment.\n\n \n\n#Salary\n50000 - 70000\n \n\n#Equity\n - \n \n\n#Location\n- Vancouver