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Lead Developer

Goodself26 days ago
Remote
$100,000 - $120,000/year
Senior Level

Top Benefits

Work from home
Remote work
Opportunity to grow within a startup

About the role

Job description

About Us

Launched in the Fall of 2022, Goodself is on a mission to help people find and deliver relevant, trustworthy Health, Wellness, and Lifestyle information through a first-of-its-kind free social media app platform exclusively around Health, Wellness and Lifestyle. We are building an engaged community of Users that want to get better and can see others like them getting better, along with access to credible information through vetted Experts, across a variety of health topics. Please visit us at goodself.com for more information.

Lead Developer

Looking for a passionate, dynamic and dedicated candidate to lead the Development Team, that also has plenty of experience in building scalable and secure applications.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Manage the development team, offering support and ensuring team productivity
  • Implement and deploy a robust set of backend services and APIs to power application and ensure scalability and security
  • Work through business requirements with product/business team and create technical requirements and implementation details for developers
  • Plan out NoSQL database structure for new features, ensuring speed and scalability
  • Enforce general coding, security, and scalability best practices among development team to ensure the application is robust and reliable
  • Participate in code review and perform extensive testing to ensure high-quality software
  • Translate UI/UX wireframes to functional mobile elements
  • Write maintainable, testable, and performant software in creating the entire platform, end-to-end
  • Build reusable code and libraries for future use
  • Communicate clearly and effectively with all members of our team

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Minimum of 3 years of experience in a lead developer position
  • Minimum of 2 years of experience with React Native + Redux, JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience with backend development
  • Experience with code review, helping junior developers with tasks and implementation
  • Experience with the Agile methodology
  • Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, Git, etc.
  • Proactive personality, and a desire to deliver your best work
  • Great interpersonal skills. Strong proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English.
  • A love for improving software development workflows/process
  • Experience with MongoDB, Firebase, Jest are a bonus
  • Experience with Swift and/or Java/Kotlin is an asset
  • Strong understanding of APIs, database architecture, design patterns, optimization, caching, security, and scalability
  • Fundamental knowledge of core web principals (HTTP, the DOM, SSL, web servers)
  • Past experience with using software development tools and methods (source control, unit testing, bug tracking, continuous integration, etc.)

WHY JOIN US

  • Helping to create a disruptive tech social platform that’s meant to help millions to live better
  • Become a key member of the team in deciding the platform’s functionality and rollout
  • Opportunity to grow within a startup, that's just launched in the Fall of 2022
  • Remote work

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: $100,000.00-$120,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • Work from home

Flexible language requirement:

  • French not required

Schedule:

  • Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

  • What are your salary expectations?

Education:

  • Bachelor's Degree (preferred)

Experience:

  • React Native: 2 years (required)

Language:

  • English (required)

Work Location: Remote

Job Type: Permanent

Pay: $100,000.00-$120,000.00 per year

Schedule:

  • 8 hour shift

Application question(s):

  • What are your salary expectations?

Education:

  • Bachelor's Degree (preferred)

Experience:

  • React Native: 2 years (preferred)
  • Development lead: 3 years (preferred)

Language:

  • English (required)

Work Location: Remote

About Goodself

Technology, Information and Internet
11-50

A social media app platform focused EXCLUSIVELY on Health, Wellness and Lifestyle content. A User's feed contains interactive live audio talks run ONLY by a limited set of vetted Health Experts (practitioners across various fields in Health, Wellness and/or Lifestyle). In addition, the feed contains curated and rated videos, pictures and thought pieces posted by both Users in sharing their experiences, as well as from Health Experts in sharing their expertise.