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At-a-glance application process:
- Prepare your profile, portfolio, code samples, and summary of experience (including YOE in production by language).
- Highlight leadership experience (technical or managerial), and collaborative accomplishments
Requirements
Apply if you meet both frontend and backend requirements below.
For frontend:
- 4+ hours of overlap with 9am-5pm US Mountain time
- 3+ years of experience on frontend (React, TypeScript)
- GraphQL (Apollo, schema design, input validation, etc)
- UI experience (understands components, HTML, CSS layouts)
For backend:
- Python/Django, 3+ years of experience
- This is our core stack
- pytest / unit testing
- graphene
- Python3 typing
- Comfortable with Django
We’re also looking for all of these:
- Self-sufficient (can get stuff done with Trello tasks, can make decisions)
- Good communicator. Makes deadlines and estimates, raises concerns.
- Passionate, self-driven learner waiting for the opportunity to build something new and cool.
Bonus:
- Experience with React Native for mobile development
- Freelance experience: delivered projects, managed budget/estimate, worked with non-technical clients (most important)
- Vercel, Digital Ocean or Heroku
- SQL experience
- Can think critically, build from rough specs
Note this is a contract opportunity. After 3-6 months we’d consider making an employment offer if we’re a good fit for each other.
Include code samples, screenshots, or other work of yours that you’re proud of. Examples of projects you’ve lead and your role (technical or managerial) would be very helpful. Where ownership is shared, please mention specifically which part of the work is yours.
Why You’ll Love Working at Uplift
- We find the work for you!
- We offer you a team and shared resources to help you take on bigger client projects if you’re turning down opportunities.
- Enjoy a healthy work-life balance, like everyone else at the company.
- Embark on your own self-driven career path with opportunities for positions like tech lead.
- Work on many different projects and cross-pollinate all the lessons and solutions.
- Work remotely: avoid a time and energy drain of a commute. Uplift has been remote-first since inception.
- Get together in person once a year for a company offsite.
- Indulge in the freedom to design your own work schedule, whether that includes a four day work week, evening hours, or whatever suits you and your lifestyle, so long as it’s clearly communicated.
- You get access to Paul & Marius, two of the brightest minds in engineering & consulting.
- Uplift has no investors, other than our team, and thus no one who can dictate the future of our company or our products. We have ultimate freedom in the projects that we choose.
As a member of our team we value your opinion. We also respect the skills you bring to our company.
**We are constantly on the lookout for people who can join us. If you’ve got what it takes, we’ll find a way to include you.**
