Are you looking to join a growing, successful and ambitious software (SaaS) company? Do you get excited about designing and building high-value, frequently-used features for users that rely on your products to execute their jobs every day? Do you want to learn and work with the latest technologies, including React, Python, GraphQL, AWS Lambda, and MongoDB? If yes, then keep reading!
PerformYard has developed a simple and effective platform that helps drive staff performance through the roof. Our long-term vision is to change the way performance is managed and measured in organizations of all sizes. To achieve this we need to add to our amazing team…that’s where you come in!
Click this link to learn more about our SaaS platform: https://www.performyard.com/flexible-features
This is a 100% Remote position - Now & Forever
Requirements
As a Full-Stack Software Engineer, you will innovate, design, and develop end-to-end product capabilities that stretch from our React-based frontend to our NodeJS/Python/MongoDB/Docker backend. Every Software Engineer at PerformYard will collaborate with our development team and corporate leadership to deliver innovative new features for our SaaS employee performance platform, transforming high-level specifications into scalable, efficient and easy-to-use features.
What You’ll Do:
- Participate in the full application development lifecycle, with a focus on writing clean, efficient and reusable code.
- Own development of features, manage implementation of code and enhance product usability and consistency within the product.
- Build new features using React, Javascript, Python, MongoDB, Docker
- Collaborate on and develop the UI/UX and product capabilities of our employee performance SaaS product
- Contribute to our API and maintain API-based connections with other, related systems
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks
- Collaborate directly with founders as well as the Collaborate closely with product management, QA, and other engineering team members
- Understand internal and customer requests and creatively implement those features into PerformYard production software
- Contribute to our full stack including AWS infrastructure that delivers our products to users worldwide.
What You’ll Bring:
- Bachelor's Degree
- 3-5+ years of development experience with React, Redux, Python, TypeScript, Node and/or JavaScript
- Practical knowledge of and experience with NoSQL and/or SQL databases
- Bonus if experience working with Docker and other Javascript frameworks
- Experience building integrations using web services and maintaining an API
- Experience with the AWS stack
Bonus Points for:
- Experience developing, documenting, and versioning public REST APIs
- Node.js experience
- GraphQL experience
- Experience working with Docker
- Experience with additional Javascript frameworks in addition to React and Redux
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Benefits
100% REMOTE - Now & Forever
In addition to your compensation plan we also have medical, dental, and vision health insurance benefits w/ HSA plan, disability insurance, 401k plan, generous PTO, 100% remote flexibility & paid holidays and other benefits.
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