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: React, Rails

Term: 3-6 months

Hours per week: 40

Rate: $30-$55 / hour

Timeline: Immediate

Timezone Constraints: 5 hours overlap with ET

Geographic Constraints: None

Context:

We’re working with a new york based company that issues credit to retailers to help them purchase wholesale inventory from brands on their platform. They could use some help leading up to the end of the year pushing out features and improving reliability.

They’re looking for a react engineer who’s comfortable enough on the backend to make small changes to endpoints or models as needed. You’d be working on a team with 5 other engineers, most of whom are backend focused full stack folks.

About You

Roughly in order of importance:

  • Experience working with react
  • Experience working in an early stage startup
  • Experience working with U.S. based companies
  • Experience making limited changes to api endpoints
  • Experience with Rails
  • 5+ years experience

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