Job description
At Jobscan, we’re passionate about empowering job seekers to land more interviews with AI technology. We have helped millions of job seekers get more interviews in 100+ countries. Jobscan’s platform benefits job seekers, employers, universities, and communities. We’re a fast-growing remote startup. We are completely customer-funded without VC investments, profitable, and growing exponentially. Without investor pressure, we can be even more customer-focused. You get the stability you need while being a part of an accelerating startup.
We are looking for a smart, driven, enthusiastic Full Stack Software Engineer with an emphasis on Backend Development to help us build the next generation of job search tools. You’ll join our engineering team, delivering new features and improving existing tools for our growing user base. You’ll use modern and proven technologies to help us exceed our user’s expectations and scale our tools to an increasingly global audience, working in a fast-paced environment. This is a great chance to be part of a growing organization that is passionate about building software the right way as well as continually providing opportunities for professional growth.
Brief Description of Duties:
- Build new APIs and direct features in our Laravel based backend, working primarily in PHP and SQL.
- Take on major back-end development projects with a high level of ownership, focusing on maintainability, usability, scalability, and performance.
- Work closely with the frontend development team on integrating with our Vue.js based Single Page Application (SPA) Frontend.
- Work closely with business, marketing, and content teams to understand the future business direction with the goal of architecting the platform optimally for extensibility and feature delivery.
- Be a positive influence on the team participating in code reviews, collaborating with other developers, and ensuring adherence to coding and testing standards.
- Add and improve our test coverage in our end-to-end, integration, and unit test suites.
- Maintain a high awareness of industry issues and trends, particularly in regard to web technologies, cloud computing, machine learning (ML), and automated unit testing.
Must Haves:
- 6+ years of experience in backend or full-stack software development experience on a customer-facing web application.
- A positive attitude and low ego.
- Experience with PHP based systems written in a modern framework (such as Symfony, Laravel, or Drupal)Experience with modern Javascript Frontend framework (such as React, Next.js, Vue.js, Svelte, or AngularJS) Excellent cross-functional communication skills.
- Experience working with and creating REST web services and APIs.
- Strong computer science and web fundamentals, knowledge of design patterns.
Nice to Haves:
- Direct experience with Laravel preferred.
- Direct experience with Vue.js framework.
- Experience with creating Browser Extensions (Chrome, Firefox)
- Experience with Java and/or Python.
- Experience with cloud architecture, preferably AWS, using technologies like EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, and RDS.
- Experience with containerized infrastructure based on Docker.
- Experience with ML (TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.)
- Experience with NLP (NLTK, SpaCy, CoreNLP, etc.)
Please note this is a hybrid role which includes in-person coworking sessions twice a week (Tuesday and Thursday afternoons) in Xinyi District for better collaboration with the local team.
Benefits
- Remote-friendly - we trust you to get your work done and make it to your meetings, though our roles in Taiwan may involve semi-regular coworking sessions in the Xinyi District for better collaboration with the local team
- Competitive salary + stock options - you should have a piece of what we’re building here
- Flexible schedule - we make it easy to take care of what matters, whether that’s family, health, or life outside of work; though you might expect some early morning meetings to accommodate our other time zones (6:30 am being the earliest)
- Unlimited PTO + 14 Paid Holidays + Paid Sick Days - we want our employees to have time to care for their personal wellness and mental health
- Paid maternal/parental leave - enjoy time with your family’s new addition👩🍼👨👩👧
- Local benefits through EOR in Taiwan - you’ll be hired via an Employer of Record to ensure you receive local labor insurance, health insurance, and pension contributions, just like any local employer would provide
- $1000 office stipend; monthly education and internet stipend
- Wellness stipend - use for yoga class, gym membership, or anything that improves your personal wellness🧘♀️
- Apple computer or PC of your choice
- Bi-annual company retreats
