Lead Engineer, Home From College

Home From College:

A new marketplace platform providing empowerment and access in career development. Think LinkedIn for Gen Z (but better).

👩🏽‍🎓 FOR STUDENTS H\FC is the starting place for all things career. The Profile offers a better alternative to the traditional resume, allowing anyone to stand out professionally. GIGs allow students to explore careers and get their foot in the door with relevant, diverse experiences.

👩🏼‍🏫 FOR COMPANIES H\FC offers unlimited and direct access to diverse Gen Z talent. GIGs are flexible, allowing companies to hire for a variety of initiatives - big or small.

Job Description

Home From College is looking for a full stack web developer to join the founding team. Must be proficient in the latest web technologies and be able to build a technical product to meet the needs of a fast growing start-up. In joining at an early stage company, the developer must feel comfortable independently solving complex technical problems while collaborating and working closely with technical and non-technical team members.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for back end build and technical development as well as front end development.
• Independently prioritize tasks and manage time while delivering on development related deadlines.
• Determine and clearly communicate operational practicality of feature requests to non-tech team members
• Follow best practices as determined by leaders within the team and suggest improvements on Project Management and Software Development methodologies.
• Possess good business awareness, and know the goals of the organization, and communicate and prioritize technical requirements accordingly

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of web development experience, including full stack development experience
• Proven experience building fully responsive Single Page Applications in React or similar frameworks.
• Experience building APIs with Node.js, familiarity with ExpressJS or similar frameworks.
• Ability to work with multiple 3rd party APIs as required, and implementing data storage requirements in both SQL and NoSQL databases
• Ability to clearly comment and document code and follow best practices in version control using GitHub.
• Knowledge of AWS/GCP/Azure and ability to configure and work with cloud infrastructure to create DevOps workflows as needed.
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python, and familiarity with Linux based Operating Systems
• Experience building product with an early stage company (10 person or less) is a plus

Compensation + Benefits

🤑 Competitive Annual Base Salary of $120,000 - $150,000 (depends on level of experience)

💸 Potential for equity incentive compensation (depends on level of experience)

🏥 Health insurance

✔️401(k) plan

🏄🏻‍♀️ Unlimited PTO