Position: Senior Full-stack React.js + Node.js Engineer - USA
Company: Simplify
Category: JavaScript
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate

About us

We’re a creative team of marketers, designers, developers, and copywriters, who are focused on solving business problems by making simple, but effective websites & mobile apps.

Our job is to eliminate barriers, misunderstandings, and unawareness between a product and a consumer. We make their ways to each other simple.

Simplify. Your way to Greatness.

About customer & project:

We have a request from our potential client in the USA.  The customer is looking for a team 2 Senior Full-stack React.js + Node.js Engineers with good spoken English. Below, we propose to consider detailed requirements and a description of the client's company:

The company is the fresh, smart and sexy matchmaking startup dedicated to putting fun and romance back into dating, and we've got a lot to "talk" about! Fully up and running in San Francisco and New York, we’re currently expanding into Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Washington, DC, Miami and Tampa/St.Pete, Houston and Dallas, Minneapolis, Denver and Seattle as well. Our wicked smart technology makes good old-fashioned matchmaking and recruiting more efficient, effective and affordable. We have great press, celebrity clients and reams of romantic success stories already – and we’re just getting started.

We’re looking for someone passionate building tools that empower our hundreds of matchmakers find and build meaningful relationships for our clients. You’ll build features to help matchmakers search for potential matches, design curated dates, and communicate with their clients.

The company is transforming from a matchmaking company into a company that has a rigorous tested system that helps our clients maximize their chance of finding relationship success and fulfillment. In order to support this transformation, we are building a new platform that helps to shepherd our customers along their journey.  This platform will focus on transparency around the customer journey, creating engagement with our customers along their journey, and creating features that maximize customers growth and learning.  With this new platform, we aim to increase customer outcomes, increase customer satisfaction, decrease refunds, increase bookings for new service offerings, and increase customer trust as a partner. 

Potential projects include:
- building a matchmaker search interface that utilizes data from machine to recommend matches based on their profile, past dates, and feedback
- a date designer tool that allows matchmakers to easily build a meaningful date based using past dates, user profiles, and the Google Places API
- building a graphQL layer on top of our API

Our tech stack: React, Next.js, Graphql, Mysql and perhaps PHP. This is a FE heavy role so the ratio of work FE & BE - 70/30

Responsibilities:

- Lead, design, and implement core workflow tools to empower our matchmakers and create intuitive interfaces
- Work directly with our in-office matchmakers for feedback and design
- Grow as a mentor of an ambitious, tight-knit engineering team
- Shape coding guidelines, best practices, and code quality
- Design component-based architecture that will allow the team to scale quickly and efficiently
- Drive and prioritize feature development for specific areas of product ownership
- Learn from a seasoned executive team that has built and sold businesses previously

Requirements: 

- 2+ years in developing web services and/or mobile apps
- Ability to quickly understand technical and business requirements and be able to translate into technical design and implementation
- B.S. in Computer Science or other engineering fields
- Experienced in shipping high quality, high performance software at scale
- Passionate about building usable, intuitive user experiences that delight
- Proficient coding using React, Javascript, HTML, CSS
- Proficiency in PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, Java, C#, C++/C, and/or equivalent
- Proficient with designing schema and queries for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and/or equivalent
- Familiar with modern front-end/back-end design paradigms
- Belief in always trying to be better and making everyone around you better

Client's team in PST time-zone so need to make sure that candidates are okay to work till 8, 9 pm Ukraine time

Interview process:
- Internal Tech Interview
- Interview with VP of Product

Team structure at Client side: 6 devs + 1 Data Scientist

Duration:12+ months
Workload: full-time