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, typescript, react

Budget: $7-$10k/month

Hours per week: 40

Term: 3 month with possibility of extension to 12+ month

Location: Latam based candidates preferred

Timezone Constraints: 5 hours overlap with PT

Start Date: Immediate

Company Stage: Series B

Context:

We’re working with a 10 year old company that builds technology for law firms. They’ve recently hired in a new CTO and are revamping their eng org + infrastracture. They have two legacy codebases they’re looking to sunset. They’re looking for someone to join the team that is building the next generation versions of these web apps in node/typescript/react.

You’d be working along 5 other engineers based in canada within a larger eng org of 40 and looking to you to help them establish patterns within this new codebase. If the first 3 months go well, they’d like to convert you to a long term, permanent member of the team.

About You

Roughly in order of importance:

  • You have backend engineering experience
  • You have node/ts experience
  • You have experience operating as lead engineer
  • You have 8+ years experience
  • You have react experience

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