Full Stack Engineer

Remote OK is looking to hire a Full Stack Engineer. With that we mean a generalist software engineer focused on product outcomes rather than any specific part of the stack or language. You need to be more frontend focused than a typical programmer, and re-use any API or backend that exists to get the job done.

This is a full-time position.

Responsibilities

- keep existing features working (we monitor most pages and API endpoints every minute)

- fix bugs that might come up (we have live PHP/JS bug tracking)

- build new features, that means coding the client side part of it (usually plain JS or w/ jQuery, but without fancy frameworks), and the back end side of it (usually plain PHP with SQLite)

- ship fast and iterate based on customer feedback (right now we deploy CI/CD-style about 50 times per day)

Impact

- you work on sites that get over 1.4 billion requests per year used by over 1 million people per month

- you learn how to ship fast with a laser focus on building what customers want while learning how to market those new features directly to an audience

You should be

- autonomous and be able to figure things out for yourself, but I might go AWOL for awhile, so you need to make the best choices yourself how to fix something, or how to build a new feature

- not wanting to do things the proper overengineering way with Kubernetes clusters and Docker and multi layered sharded databases to scale like in BigCo tech enterprise; doing things proper is good but making customer's happy is the #1 priority, quickly made scrappy code can always be refactored later if a feature starts making money, instead of proper code that took a long time to write for a feature that nobody ends up using

You'll work in a team with

- a Site Reliability Engineer, who keeps the sites up

- a Community Manager, who keeps the Remote OK community safe

- a Customer Service Specialist, who keeps our customers happy