What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Developer position at LifeWeb 360?
Role overview:
We’re freshly funded and hiring. We're open to candidates from mid-level to CTO-ready seniority. Opportunity to discuss late-stage technical co-founder for the right candidate.
We are seeking an adaptable, scrappy, and entrepreneurial developer to join our small and passionate team. You’re a self-starter with a sense of humor (we have way more fun than you'd think for a company focused on death!). You are motivated to use technology to enhance a fundamental human experience that quite literally everyone will experience at some point in their life - losing a loved one. And, you can translate this massive vision into the steps it will take to get us there. Join us in our mission to awaken our empathetic world! ✌️
What you’ll do:
- Build out and optimize our back-end systems for performance, reliability, and modularity
- Develop front-end, engaging and easy to use web app experiences
- Own the LifeWeb 360 tech stack and informational architecture
- Ensure LifeWeb practices continuous integration and deployment practices for assuring speed-to-ship without sacrificing the best customer experiences with our product as possible
- Explores, recommends and implements new tools, frameworks, platforms or languages that improve the product experience and product development process
- Every day, you’ll review 2x more PRs than you open
- Every sprint, you’ll design and incrementally deliver meaningful, complex features
- Every month, you’ll resolve a couple performance and scaling bottlenecks, balancing feature development with long-term tech investments to keep the platform healthy and nimble
- Every quarter, you’ll help define the objectives and key results that will shape your team’s roadmap
Our current tech stack:
Languages & Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, React
Content Moderation (Image and Text recognition): AWS Rekognition & Comprehend
Data server: AWS
What you have:
- Customer-obsession and you can demonstrate how your work has been influenced by customer insights; you prioritize the needs of our users
- Delivery: Ability to break big projects into small, testable pieces to consistently hit business-meaningful milestones
- Domain Expertise: Fluency in both Ruby on Rails as well as service-oriented and modularized architecture patterns
- Problem Solving: Business intuition that informs right-sized solutions, thoughtful trade-offs, and game-changing innovation
- Communication: Clear, inclusive communication with both teammates and non-technical partners
- Solid experience with React or other Javascript frameworks like Angular or Ember
- Experience and evidence from working on fast-paced, highly iterative projects in an agile environment, side by side with designers
- Pragmatic approach while still delivering quality and maintainable code
- Team player looking to collaborate and contribute to shipping great projects
- Experience working in an early stage startup or creating something from scratch and launching it into the world
We’ll be totally wowed if you also have:
- Familiarity with natural language processing
- Experience building consumer-facing technology
- That elusive ability to fold the fitted bed sheet
Our team:
Ali & Rachele founded the company in 2019. Ali is a former management consultant and Googler, and Rachele is a former architect (of real buildings!). Our Head of Product, Roy, has 20 product experience across big tech like Microsoft and startups alike.
We have a fantastic team as well as world class advisors who love getting in the weeds with us to help us level up individually and as a company. From jobs-to-be-done to narrative storytelling, our advisors are literally the experts in the field. We’re a small but scrappy team having a big impact in people’s lives, and having a lot of fun in the process. Join us! Learn more about our team here.
What we offer
- 💛 The opportunity to immediately improve a fundamental human experience of losing a loved one and supporting a friend in grief
- 🔥 A diverse, high-functioning, and growing team that is driven by a mission to redefine what empathetic technology can mean
- 💪 As much ownership over your work as you can handle with lots of room for growth
- 💲 Competitive compensation (salary stock options) and benefits relative to other early-stage startups, including health benefits
- 🌍Work from wherever you'd like and know the rest of the team is too - we are a remote-first company; preference for 4 working hours overlap with central time