Full-Stack Developer

BookFunnel delivers reader magnets, ebooks, audiobooks, and supplements for authors and small publishers, including for crowd funding rewards. We also provide opportunities for authors to collaborate using group promotions and author newsletter swaps.

This is a company passionate about the publishing industry, and we are looking for someone to join our team who wants to innovate and create great experiences for authors and readers. If that sounds like you, keep reading.

Description

A Full-Stack developer is part of our Engineering team, with responsibilities for development on our web properties. This person needs to be adaptable, curious, and thorough – with a desire to put out great experiences with as few bugs and performance issues as possible.

BookFunnel Culture

BookFunnel is an equal opportunity employer.Our mission is to bring books to readers all over the world and help author build their businesses.Our team is a diverse mix of men and women with a collaborative, inclusive, and progressive mindset. As a small team, we often have to take on different roles and balance tradeoffs. Open and collegial, we communicate through online chat and virtual meetings, but keep meetings to a minimum (Engineering team members attend 2-3 meetings per week).

Responsibilities

• Participate in all aspects of development including design, implementation, deployment, and support.
• Architect and provide guidance on building end-to-end systems optimized for speed and scale.
• Developing front-end and back-end code for new functionality in collaboration with Engineering team members.
• Tracking down bugs and functionality issues.
• Utilizing existing BookFunnel frameworks, as well as bringing knowledge of emerging frameworks for front-end and back-end development.

Qualifications

• Fast learner with adaptable skills
• Ability to maintain empathic and professional communication at all times
• Five+ years experience in building full-stack web applications.
• Experience in designing and integrating RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and at least one backend programming language (i.e. Python, Ruby, GoLang, NodeJS, Java)
• Experience working with SQL databases.
• Experience with TCL would be a huge plus, but we don’t expect many people to have that.
• Experience with React, Angular, Ionic, Swift, or Android SDK also a plus.
• Experience working with NoSQL databases a plus (i.e. Redis, Cassandra, Mongo, Elasticsearch, CouchDB, etc…).
• Preference will be given to self-published authors, candidates with extensive experience using BookFunnel, or candidates otherwise involved with the self-publishing industry.

Benefits

• Annual Bonus
• Remote full-time
• Healthcare Reimbursement (QSEHRA: $529/mo individual, $1066/mo family)
• 2+ weeks paid vacation, flexible PTO days, 10 company holidays
• $1500 publishing reimbursement/year (software, editing, book cover, etc...)
• Personal cell phone and home broadband full reimbursed

No agencies or contracting firms. Direct applicants only.