Full-Stack Software Engineer

A rapidly-growing company on a mission to help distribute intelligence at the speed of conversation by bundling authoritative data with visualization templates and tools, is looking for a Full-Stack Engineer. The engineer will be responsible for designing and developing fully functional products while overcoming scalability issues. The company is building an embeddable visualization platform that helps journalists, creators, and brands infuse their storytelling with data at the speed of conversation and breaking news. This will be a long-term role that requires at least 4+ hours overlap with the PST time zone. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Collectivise authoritative data with visualization templates to expand interactive visualization library 
• Build documented, well-maintained codes to support new types of visualizations
• Work closely with the company founders to build a cohesive product, and refine the software architecture
• Comprehensively add support for more chart types to cater to a wide variety of data
• Improve the editor interface and provide customers with more customization options 
• Enhance the web experience by making it easier to surf across the data catalog
• Suggest new chart embed types for social media and video editing 
• Embed visualizations on different Content Management Systems
• Improve the oEmbed Wordpress workflow
• Build a CMS plug-in framework and deploy django application on ECS
• Build a robust production environment on AWS, backed by Terraform
• Monitor for usage patterns and anomalies using CloudWatch/Prometheus/Grafana
• Build a secure development environment that lowers risk of production outage 
• Configure linters, unit tests, CI pipelines, tree shaking
• Automatically initiate and deploy builds on GitHub
• Adopt Typescript and help collect datasets at scale
• Develop a systematic way to monitor pipelines that extract and transform datasets
• Create stacks to simplify the process of gathering datasets
• Build interfaces to assist internal staff to save datasets
• Hone skills by participating in system design and code reviews

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 in D3.js, React, and Python
• Nice to have experience in AWS/Terraform, Django, Typescript
• Ability to take ownership of the task(s) and split responsibilities according to skillsets