Full-Stack Engineer

A unique organization that enables bereaved families to effortlessly collaborate with friends and relatives to gather memories and commemorate the lives of their loved ones is looking for a Full-Stack Engineer. The selected candidate will help define the objectives and key results that will shape the team’s roadmap. The company uses technology to enhance a fundamental human experience while building a more empathetic world. This is a great opportunity for engineers to contribute their talents to a relevant cause. This role requires a minimum of 4 hours overlap with the CST time zone. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Build out and optimize the back-end systems for performance, reliability, and modularity
• Own the tech stack and informational architecture
• Ensure standard practices, continuous integration, and deployment practices for assuring speed-to-ship without sacrificing the best customer experiences 
• Build out and maintain a headless CMS for the team to consistently deliver content
• Explore, recommend, and implement new tools, frameworks, platforms, or languages that improve the product experience and product development process
• Design and incrementally deliver meaningful, complex features
• Break big projects into small, testable pieces to consistently hit meaningful business milestones
• Resolve performance issues, scale bottlenecks, and balance feature development with long-term tech investments to keep the platform healthy and nimble
• Engage in clear, inclusive communication with both teammates and non-technical partners
• Fluency in service-oriented and modularized architecture patterns

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 3+ years of relevant experience as a full-stack engineer
• Extensive experience with Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, and AWS Services
• Demonstrable experience with Angular, Ember, and JavaScript
• Experience collaborating with designers and working on fast-paced, highly iterative projects in an agile environment
• Pragmatic approach while delivering quality and maintainable code
• Familiarity with responsive design, SEO, and accessibility concerns
• Experience creating something from scratch and launching it into the world
• Excellent communication and team-building skills