Senior Javascript Engineer

We’re looking to hire a senior Javascript engineer with 5+ years experience who shares our passion for great product engineering. We’re looking for someone with strong backend skills and experience of developing and deploying in a high scale environment. Bonus points if you’re able to work full stack, but not essential for this role.

About BrandChamp

BrandChamp is a leading B2B SaaS company in the ambassador marketing space. Our platform helps brands build and operate ambassador, influencer, affiliate, creator and loyalty programs at scale. We have a sophisticated admin web portal which allows a brand to design and run their whole program, as well as deep social and ecommerce integrations. It’s a fun and rewarding space to work in as we help brands get real value from using our platform.

Most of our customers are in the US but the technical team is based in Europe and Asia so we’re ideally looking for someone in Europe or Asia timezones.

Role

You’ll be responsible for designing and delivering new product features and improving existing ones while keeping scalability, reliability, and performance in mind.

We run on AWS and use PostgreSQL RDS for DB, Node.js for API, and Vue.js with TypeScript on frontend. We value clean, maintainable, well-tested code and are looking for someone with similar mindset. 

This is a great opportunity to have major input into a fast growing SaaS app and be part of an exciting, remote-friendly company.

There’s a big product roadmap ahead of us so we’re looking to build a long term relationship with the right candidate. Please read the following requirements carefully before applying.

Essential Skills

• 5+ years experience with the majority in Javascript
• Experience deploying software and database updates in a high scale environment
• Genuine interest in writing quality, maintainable code
• Experience independently designing and implementing large pieces of a system
• Experienced in writing tests. Our focus is on integration tests
• Strong relational database experience, preferably with PostgreSQL
• Using Node.js to build REST APIs, ideally using koa.js or express.js
• Keeps customers in mind and proactively raises issues or possible improvements
• Experience doing code reviews
• Git / Github
• Excellent spoken and written English
• Experience working remotely

Bonus Points

• Experience with ecommerce platforms like Shopify and WooCommerce
• Experience using AWS EC2, ECS, CodeDeploy
• FrontEnd experience with Vue.js or similar
• TypeScript
• Experience with social media APIs
• UI/UX skills. We use the Semantic UI framework which provides all core components
• Experience with the Semantic UI CSS framework

Ideal Candidate

• Good team player and communicator
• Somebody who we can trust and build a friendly relationship. We value cultural fit as much as technical
• You’re not expected to know every framework and API out there but you need to be open to learning and able to pick things up quickly. A good developer will know how to get it done

What We Offer

• Salary range $45,000 to $75,000 depending on experience
• Opportunity to get stock options in fast growing tech startup
• Bonuses
• Full time, fully remote position
• Flexible working hours
• Co-working space allowance
• Low meeting environment and flat team hierarchy
• Friendly team that welcomes feedback
• Great opportunity to have a big impact and for career development
• Meet up and work with the team in great locations around the world