If you have a soft spot for
bootstrapped, profitable, remote companies with a meaningful product,
and you want to use your frontend development skills for good, you’ll
like this.
About us:
Drops’ goal is to turn language
learning into a delightful game while ensuring effective learning. We
teach 31 languages, was featured by both the App Store and Play Store
multiple times - and received the “Best of 2018” title this year! - and
the company is still run by the founders. We are a small, super-capable
remote team mainly spread across Europe. We’re working synchronously, so
time zones matter for us. We communicate via Slack, Github and have
releases multiple times a week. We want to be the #1 app for vocabulary
learning and we are getting there quickly with our current user base of 9
million, a monthly active of >1,000,000 and an average store rating
of 4.7.
You can find us here: https://languagedrops.com
About you:
You’ll
be responsible for establishing Drops on the web, from a technical
perspective. This means a lot of ownership, which we cultivate by having
a flat structure.
You’re a no-nonsense person, who is comfortable
taking on larger projects, who has been working in working at a product
company and has extensive front-end development experience.
You
have been working with React for years, have deep knowledge of
everything that’s happening in the browser and looking for challenges in
growing a product from tens of thousands to millions of visitors per
month.
You strongly prefer static typing over dynamic languages,
and use every opportunity to transform code that doesn’t use types into
code that does. You generally prefer to use a minimal set of simple
tools to a diverse range of complex ones.
We’ve built our mobile
app with react-native, so we can easily port it to the web and start
sharing most of our code - and the challenges that this brings are of
your interest.
You like to have a variety of projects - at this
job, you’ll be developing a complex web app, a static site generator
(gatsby), and even sometimes helping out on our marketing website,
that’s being re-built with webflow.
We want everyone to see the
big picture: this means you already pushed your boundaries outside of
“being a developer” and are knowledgeable about web product growth
frameworks, SEO, best practices regarding retention and monetization.
We’re
building a small, but super capable team. You’re naturally more
interested in the fate of the product & driven to grow
professionally, than in managing people.
We value clear and honest
communication and transparency, it’s the linchpin of our culture and
current success and freedom. You will be involved in both high and low
level decision making and will be available during European working
hours (9AM - 6PM GMT).
We are looking for a missionary rather than a mercenary.
Requirements
You have:
- At least 4 years of experience in building web products.
- At least 2 years of experience in building with React.
- Experience
architecting and developing web apps and programmatically generated
sites (static site generators, like gatsby) with with thousands of
pages.
- Some experience in understanding basic funnels, and collaborating with support to resolve user-facing issues.
- Project management experience (everyone is managing projects at Drops).
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work well cross-functionally.
- Experienced in strongly typed languages, and/or Typescript/Flow.
You will:
- Work
cross functionally with our designer / data analyst / backend developer
/ project owner to define, scope, estimate and plan various aspects of
the product.
- Work independently and with other engineers to develop new web experiences..
- Support of production applications / sites that you’ve built or helped to build.
- Communicate effectively and often to ensure that everyone is aligned.
Benefits
We offer:
- An awesomely compact 14 person team
- Yearly educational allowance
- All the perks of remote working
- Fitness allowance
- 30 days of holiday per year (including Christmas and other holidays)
- Quarterly team gathering somewhere in the world
- Stock options from a high-growth, profitable company