Fullstack Developer

We are looking for a talented full-stack software engineer to join our small and extremely talented product team. We love to build amazing products fast and with a high standard of code and UX, always on the cutting edge of new technologies.

Tasks

• Design and build features end-to-end. You'll be working on the frontend, backend, and anything in-between, whatever it takes to solve problems and delight users.
• Build beautiful and usable UIs with our modern toolset of React (NextJS, ES11, TypeScript) and TailwindCSS.
• Continue developing our distributed backend using Node (NestJS + TypeScript) and Rust. Technologies also include PostgreSQL, Redis, and RabbitMQ.
• Stitch many different services and APIs together, even if you have not worked with them before.
• Build solutions that take scaling and growth into consideration while balancing the time to launch.
• Engineer solutions to solve existing tech debt and write maintainable, sound and safe code.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, working with Typescript, React and serious interest or even better experience with Rust. However, we care much more about your general engineering skill than your knowledge of a particular language or framework.
• The ability to put yourself in the users' shoes and craft intuitive, high-quality web UI experiences
• A high bar for code quality and robustness for long-term expansion and use
• High personal initiative to learn, improve, and excel
• A Can-Do, entrepreneurial mentality with enjoyment for being a generalist
• DevOps: Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and other DevOps tools.
• Experience with distributed systems, scaling applications, and/or microservices.
• Fluent in English (German is a plus)

Plus:

• Hands-on experience with the Rust
• Experience with functional programming
• Previously worked in an early-stage startup and experienced scaling of engineering teams

Your Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall tech stack of the product
• Designing overall architecture of the web/ mobile application
• Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of applications
• Exposure to security and data protection management
• Building modular, reusable codes and libraries
• Ability to build product from scratch & drive it to completion
• Optimize applications for best user experience
• Development experience for both mobile and web based products.
• Unit Testing of developed modules

Skills:

Front-End

• Web fundamentals like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
• CSS preprocessors like Sass, LESS, bootstrap
• JavaScript frameworks like React js, AngularJS, or Ember etc.
• Libraries like jQuery or Backbone.js
• Front-end (CSS) frameworks like Foundation or Bootstrap
• Web sockets

Back-End

• Rest API design and development
• CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete)
• RESTful Services
• Web fundamentals like React js, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
• Server-side languages like Javascript, PHP, Python
• Database technologies like MySQL and MongoDB.
• Web server technologies like Node.js, Nginx, ISS, etc.

Full-stack developer  - Remote position

Are you...

• Interested in working at a successful, well-funded start-up where every team member can make a huge contribution?
• Keen to make software that people will use every single day to make their lives easier?
• Excited to work on greenfield projects with responsibility and independence?
• Ready to develop and use your skills across our frontend, backend and mobile offerings?
• Meticulous about quality, and gifted with a strong desire to write beautiful code?

About the company

KeyNest solves the key exchange problem for Airbnb users. Our worldwide network of over 4,000 shops store keys so that Airbnb guests / cleaners / contractors can pick them up whenever is convenient for them. As a global partner of Airbnb we’ve checked-in over 2 million guests.

Why we need you

As the entire Airbnb ecosystem increasingly relies on KeyNest, our customers expect us to integrate additional features without reducing the ease of use that our customers love. This is why we continue to invest in beautiful, intuitive user interfaces that integrate with every tool and are used by our customers, their guests and staff, as well as our own staff.

Our product team is lead by one of the founders and complete with a director of engineering, product manager, UX designer, one mobile developer and one senior full-stack developer who will be mentoring you. We want to work with a developer who cares about the way their code impacts the people who use it.

With a genuine passion for high quality work, attention to detail and readiness to own your own projects, you will be looking for a new and exciting challenge which allows you to use your experience to drive change and maintain the high standards of our organisation.

Our Tech Stack

• C# MVC modern tech stack
• Front end web in TypeScript & Angular or Node & React
• Test Driven Development (TDD) and follow SOLID design principles.
• EF 6.0
• SQL Server 2017
• Agile experience (Scrum, Kanban)
• TFS
• Cloud hosted in Azure with micro-services architecture

Your qualities

• 2-4 years experience in C#
• Front-end web experience in Angular
• Track record of building great products
• Excited about understanding the real problems working people come up against and fixing them with technology
• You’ll love the idea of being a big part of a small team: if you come up with a great idea, you can take it all the way to production
• Motivation and ambition to succeed in a fast-paced environment
• Not afraid to take on responsibilities

What we offer

• Crucial role in a funded, dynamic & fast-growing start-up shaking up the sharing economy
• Competitive salary based on relevant experience
• Flexible working for our most committed staff
• Unparalleled opportunities to develop your career as the company develops rapidly

If you want to join the KeyNest team, please get in touch – we look forward to meeting you.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are looking for a highly skilled computer programmer who is comfortable with both front and back end programming. Full Stack Developers are responsible for developing and designing front end web architecture, ensuring the responsiveness of applications, and working alongside graphic designers for web design features, among other duties.

Full Stack Developers will be required to see out a project from conception to final product, requiring good organizational skills and attention to detail.

Full Stack Developer Responsibilities:

• Developing front end website architecture.
• Designing user interactions on web pages.
• Developing back-end website applications.
• Creating servers and databases for functionality.
• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones.
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications.
• Working alongside graphic designers for web design features.
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product.
• Designing and developing APIs.
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.

Full Stack Developer Requirements:

• BE / BTech / MCA / BCA Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React, Vue and Amber.
• Proficiency with server-side languages such as Node, Java, PHP, Python and Ruby.
• Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle, and MongoDB.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Attention to detail.