Headquarters: Remote 
URL: http://www.whitespectre.com/

Whitespectre is a product-centric, Rails-led technology consultancy for both VC funded start-ups and large, established companies across the US and Europe. We’re also a product incubator with our own applications and B2B SaaS platform. As long-term partners to our clients, we’ve played a critical role in their growth - both through the products we co-create and the expertise and processes we bring. Proudly remote first since 2013, we’re a close-knit team of 75, working in fast-moving, cross-functional agile pods to solve interesting technical challenges and drive real business impact.

 

What's it like to be a Frontend Engineer at Whitespectre?

• Our front-end developers have the ability to make beautiful user experiences come to life. They can partner with UI/UX and are able to think like product owners- being able to advocate for code quality as a long term strategic investment while knowing when to adapt a more start-up mentality to deliver rapid business value. They can go full-stack when needed to make the frontend functional, but their passion is to stay up to date with the latest visual and Javascript techniques / trends. And, of course, share with and learn from the collective Whitespectre rails brain trust.
• Whitespectre operates on a fully-modern tech stack- toolset includes ReactJS, Typescript, Webpack, REST/GraphQL, Rails, Postgres, Elastic, CI/CD with Docker, Heroku/AWS, etc. Working smartly is important to us; automation, dynamic environments spin up with new feature branches and slack bot integrations control our production releases.
• The majority of our projects involve building greenfield applications and our delivery teams typically own products end to end - your thinking and contribution make a big impact!
• You can read more about life in our engineering team in this blog post by our Senior Engineer, Eneko.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries, with payment in USD
• Annual Performance & Salary Reviews, with proactive career management
• 20 Days PTO & 3 Charity Days annually
• Funded face-to-face meet ups in Barcelona, as well as South America and Asia
• Assisted Relocation package up to $5k
• Flexible working hours for efficient teaming in a 100% remote environment (proudly remote-first for 9 years!)
• Free English classes & educational expenses support
• Generous Employee Referral Plan
• Team Fitness and Charity Initiatives

Cultural Benefits

 

In addition to the above benefits, we foster an inclusive working environment that provides:

• Great company environment - check out Glassdoor
• Personalized onboardings
• Opportunity to contribute to company-level initiatives
• Work with a broad range of best-in-class technologies
• Cross-company knowledge groups - improve your expertise, share your learnings and work with different technologies and tools
• Regular brown bag learning sessions
• An emphasis on Work-life balance

This is the right position for you if want-

• To have a “product” mindset - that you’ll enjoy the challenge of collaborating with UI/UX Designers and Product Managers to advocate for technology solutions while bearing in mind the tradeoffs for business results
• The responsibility of designing new solutions and being confident to justify your technology decisions. (Plus debating and recognizing when a colleague has an even better idea!)
• To be able to go full-stack (on a modern Rails7 project)
• To solve problems that can’t be addressed by just searching Stack Overflow
• The opportunity to go outside your core expertise and strong skills with other technologies and learn more.
• An environment where excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) are valued and honed.

A culture where people from different backgrounds interact, collaborate and reach a shared goal

 

The “check the box” Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in software development, 2+ years of HTML/CSS/animation/ Javascript experience. Ideally, you’ll have worked on Rails projects before and hopefully used React.
• Experience contributing to technical decision making within a team
• Can work full-time with a significant crossover with the core hours: 11am - 6pm Central European Time
• Live outside of the US. Please, no recruitment agencies.

Interested in applying?

• Apply by completing the form below
• Or email us with any questions on frontend-jobs@whitespectre.com