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\nThe Opportunity\n\nShorthand is a growing company that provides a digital publishing platform to many of the world’s best known publishers, brands, not-for-profits, and universities. With customers on every continent (except Antarctica!), there’s never been a more exciting time to join Shorthand. Our company has the rare distinction in this era of money-burning startups of being both investor-backed and comfortably profitable. We're a small team of geeks with art and heart, and a high bar for quality.\n\n\nTo deliver our magic to customers and their audiences, we build software that is scalable, flexible, reliable and as simple as possible but no simpler.\n\nThe Role\n\nWe tend to do things a little differently at Shorthand. For one thing, we’re a small, fully remote team distributed around the world and have been for over 3 years, meaning we have established systems and processes in place. For this role we’ll happily take applications from anywhere in the United States.\n\nThis role will share responsibility for designing, engineering and scaling our backend systems and services.\n\nWe are looking for someone who:\n\n\n* \n\nIs whip smart, as demonstrated by career achievements and / or school / college results\n\n\n* \n\nHas good knowledge of cloud-based web architectures.\n\n\n* \n\nExperienced in system design and distributed computing.\n\n\n* \n\nHas a wide range of experience and expertise across languages, frameworks and approaches such as Javascript, Typescript, and ReactJS, NodeJS, scripting, serverless, and microservices.\n\n\n* \n\nIs an expert in using git.\n\n\n* \n\nHas worked with CI/CD processes before (CircleCI/Jenkins preferably).\n\n\n* \n\nHas an extremely high bar for quality.\n\n\n* \n\nIs thorough and detail-oriented.\n\n\n* \n\nCan learn fast.\n\n\n* \n\nHas great communication skills, particularly with respect to writing.\n\n\n* \n\nGains deep satisfaction from helping to make products better.\n\n\n* \n\nHas experience of working in a small business or startup environment.\n\n\n* \n\nPreferably has experience collaborating with diverse, geographically-dispersed teams.\n\n\n\n\n\nCore Responsibilities:\n\n\n* \n\nOwn backend development and contribute to other areas of the product. \n\n\n* \n\nLearn, evolve and improve an existing application/system architecture.\n\n\n* \n\nReview code from other engineers and provide feedback.\n\n\n* \n\nHelp secure the environment.\n\n\n* \n\nDevelop Shorthand app server-side and API functionality to help improve the customer experience. \n\n\n* \n\nContribute to the technical direction of the Shorthand tool.\n\n\n* \n\nReport bugs.\n\n\n* \n\nCommunicate with the customer support team and customers to suggest solutions to issues.\n\n\n* \n\nAssist in the creation of product documentation when required.\n\n\n\n\n\nQualifications:\n\n\n* \n\nA minimum 10 years of experience in Software Engineering roles.\n\n\n* \n\nA minimum 3 years of experience in web application development.\n\n\n* \n\nThorough knowledge of NodeJS and the web.\n\n\n* \n\nExperience with AWS.\n\n\n* \n\nA university qualification in computer science or a closely related field, or equivalent career experience required.\n\n\n\n\n\nPersonality Attributes: \n\n\n* \n\nYou are a proactive self-starter, who does not need to be told what to do and will be resourceful in order to find solutions to any challenge.\n\n\n* \n\nYou thrive in a fast-paced and demanding environment, and possess a high level of intellectual curiosity.\n\n\n* \n\nYou are collaborative.\n\n\n* \n\nYou find fulfilment in the job itself, and happiness in a job well done.\n\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, API and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n
$65,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
๐ฐ 401(k)\n\n๐ Distributed team\n\nโฐ Async\n\n๐ค Vision insurance\n\n๐ฆท Dental insurance\n\n๐ Medical insurance\n\n๐ Unlimited vacation\n\n๐ Paid time off\n\n๐ 4 day workweek\n\n๐ฐ 401k matching\n\n๐ Company retreats\n\n๐ฌ Coworking budget\n\n๐ Learning budget\n\n๐ช Free gym membership\n\n๐ง Mental wellness budget\n\n๐ฅ Home office budget\n\n๐ฅง Pay in crypto\n\n๐ฅธ Pseudonymous\n\n๐ฐ Profit sharing\n\n๐ฐ Equity compensation\n\nโฌ๏ธ No whiteboard interview\n\n๐ No monitoring system\n\n๐ซ No politics at work\n\n๐ We hire old (and young)\n\n
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