Surplushandsva

Seeking a senior, dynamic, highly motivated full stack developer interested in working for a very early stage bootstrap startup. We have a Beta/MVP live, but need to get bug free and fast ASAP. The position has pay commensurate with local salaries in low-cost countries but will earn equity equivalent to their salary which could be worth up to more than that when the company is successful. I can show you our assumptions and estimates once you sign an NDA).

About Us
We are a company dedicated to helping people find the food they love, no matter what food interests or dietary preferences they may have. You’ll be joining in the very early stages of the company, and have the chance to influence the direction of the company with your ideas and contributions.

Our Tech Stack (Front End):

• JQuery
• Bootstrap
• EJS templates
• HTML/CSS All new modules
• js with a team-maintained and crowd-sourced component library Middleware/Back end.
• Express
• js
• MongoDB
• MySQL
• API layer
• Elastic Search

Desired attributes:

• Enjoys iterative/agile development – We will iterate based on internal and customer feedback until we make an awesome product! We also have a very deep and compelling product roadmap we make consistent progress against.
• Works well collaboratively with other developers, contributing to the codebase, performing code reviews, and mentoring a team of junior developers. We have a lot of junior developers learning to code that need mentorship/leadership.
• A passion for food would be great, our business is to help pair people up with amazingly good food.
• Results-oriented

Responsibilities:

• Ability to build on and maintain a fully functional responsive web application
• Experience building API-driven applications

Qualifications:

• CS Degree is great but development skills are more important than degrees
• Ability to build and maintain a fully responsive website
• Prefer proficiency in our tech stack, but willing to teach people who are highly motivated and can spend significant time on the project for equity.
• GitHub or similar source code management system experience
• Nice to have: Experience developing customer-facing web applications