Engineer

About Forward

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

About the Work

Company Stage: Seed

Keywords: Go, Vue

Term: 2-3 months

Hours per week: 30

Timeline: Immediate

Timezone Constraints: 3 hours overlap with PT

Geographic Constraints: None

Context:

We’re working with a company that connects on demand nurses with chronically ill patients for house visits to save patients a trip to clinical settings and provide nurses with an additional source of income.

They’re looking for a lead engineer who can come in and own a refactor of their backend which is built out in go. They’re frontend is vue application and it’d be helpful if this same person were comfortable contributing there as well. You’d be working alongside a fractional CTO and two mid level engineers.

About You

Roughly in order of importance:

  • You have Go experience and understand the Go ecosystem
  • You’re comfortable in hands on lead engineer role
  • You have experience in early stage environments
  • You have experience with frontend javascript frameworks
  • You have experience with vue
  • You have 8+ years experience

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