\nBuild 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.\n\nOpportunity\n\nBacktracks 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.\n\nYour day-to-day...\n\n\n* Design and implement improvements to new and existing portions of our platform, website, and applications\n\n* Improve appeal and usability of our different products\n\n* Code and deploy new features in collaboration with our product and engineering teams\n\n* Be part of a small team, with a large amount of ownership and responsibility for managing things directly\n\n* Ship high-quality solutions with a sense of urgency\n\n* Work closely with both internal and external stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution\n\n* Work across front-end and middle tier of the stack\n\n* Have the freedom to suggest and drive initiatives\n\n\n\n\nWe 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.\n\nYou have...\n\n\n* History of autonomous design decision making at technically focused companies\n\n* History of designing and building web components, products, and technology\n\n* Experience working on design and development in any of the following roles:\n\n\n* Product Developer\n\n* Product Engineer\n\n* Front-end Designer and Developer\n\n* Front-end Engineer\n\n* UI Designer/Developer\n\n* Full Stack Engineer\n\n* Full Stack Developer\n\n* Python Developer\n\n* Python Engineer\n\n* JavaScript Engineer\n\n* JavaScript Developer\n\n\n\n\n\n* In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)\n\n* Strong knowledge of:\n\n\n* Javascript (ES6+)\n\n* Python 3.x\n\n* Know when to use immutable types, observables, reactive patterns, reduce, spread, etc.\n\n\n* You also know and subscribe to simple is better (you know when plain JavaScript with no framework is best)\n\n\n\n\n\n* CSS, SCSS\n\n* Compilation, bundling, and packaging via Webpack, Babel, etc.\n\n* Front-end frameworks (specifically Vue or React)\n\n* Node.js and npm\n\n\n\n\n\n* Confidence or experience working with:\n\n\n* Typescript\n\n\n\n\n\n* CSS-in-JS\n\n\n\n\n\n* Front-end test frameworks (Cypress, Jest)\n\n\n\n\n\n* Experience with front-end build/deployment processes (Webpack, Babel)\n\n\n\n\n\n* Strong design skills including understanding of layout aesthetics\n\n* Motivation and an enjoyment for a startup environment\n\n* Systematic thinker (consider how components can scale across our platform and product offerings)\n\n* The ability to code and build out designs independently from no mock up all the way to working CSS/HTML/JS\n\n* A blend of product, system, and people knowledge that lets you jump into a fast paced environment and contribute from day one\n\n* An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions\n\n* Strong work sense of ownership\n\n* Strong collaboration and communication skills (fluency in English)\n\n* PMA (Positive Mental Attitude)\n\n* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, relevant field, and/or relevant work experience\n\n* 5+ years professional experience\n\n\n\n\nOther qualities and traits...\n\n\n* Passion for podcasts, radio, and spoken word audio\n\n* Passion for delivering high-quality deliverables  (e.g. you ship)\n\n* A product-first approach to building software\n\n* An enthusiasm for hard problems\n\n* Thrives in a fast-paced environment\n\n\n\n\nBonus points if you have experience with...\n\n\n* Web performance (time-to-interactive, dependencies, wasted renders)\n\n* Node-based serverside APIs\n\n* Building Python-based REST APIs\n\n* Apache AirFlow\n\n* Audio analysis and processing\n\n* Some or all of the following:\n\n\n* Flask, Sanic, Apache Mod WSGI\n\n* PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras\n\n* Spark, Flink\n\n* Jinja2, HTML, CSS, JavaScript\n\n* SQLAlchemy\n\n* Celery\n\n* Solr, Elasticsearch, or Lucence\n\n* AWS, Google Cloud, Azure\n\n\n\n\n\n* CI/CD deployment processes\n\n\n\n\n\n\n