Engineer

About Forward

Forward is a consulting firm that works exclusively with independent consultants to help startups build their engineering organizations.

About the Work

Keywords: node, react, rails

Budget:$7-$8.5k/m

Hours per week: 40

Term: 12+ months

Location: Latam only

Working hours: 6 hours overlap with ET

Start date: Late July

Company stage: Seed

Context:

This role would involve working with a company that helps other companies better understand their own internal operations via analytics style dashboards.

They currently have nest/react app that’s in poor shape. They need to continue itereating and adding features but they also need help refactoring the codebase and adding in tests.

They’re also seriously contemplating migrating part of the application to rails (strangler pattern) and so would prefer someone who has experience with rails and/or server rendered frontends (a la erb, liveview, etc.).

You’d be reporting directly to the CTO and working along 5 other engineers spread out across the U.S. and europe.

About You

Roughly in order of importance:

  • You have backend engineering experience
  • You have react experience
  • You have early stage startup experience
  • You have rails experience
  • You have 8+ years experience

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