Role overview

Full-Stack Software Engineer (2+ years experience: United States)

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Details

  • Employment type: Full-time
  • Location: Remote — United States
  • Reports to: Co-founders
  • Salary range: $110,000-$170,000 USD, depending on experience
  • Build new features on our website and mobile app. (Our stack is Javascript (Typescript): modern React on the web, React Native on mobile, and Node.js/Express on the server.)
  • Design and decide what to build based on what would help travelers and drive growth. You won’t be handed a spec; you’ll be coming up with it!
  • Build data pipelines to crawl, process, and synthesize data from various sources around the web.
  • Write tests and build out engineering infrastructure. Our code is fully typed (Typescript) and tested.
  • Debug and fix bugs and scale the infrastructure as it grows.
  • Review code written by other engineers.
  • Be fast and nimble: figure out the best way to build new features at the lowest cost in time and future technical debt.
  • New, user-friendly hotel booking interfaces that make finding a place to stay easier.
  • AI-powered tools that read articles and watch videos for you and summarize the places they mention.
  • Improvements to our React Native mobile app so that it runs faster on slower Android phones.
  • A Chrome extension to let travelers quickly compare possible places to visit, airfares, and hotels.
  • Better invite and collaboration tools to encourage people to use Wanderlog to get more friends to join them.
  • A better profile page that lets travelers on Wanderlog show off where they’ve been, see how many people they’ve helped, and follow other friends and their trips.
  • Two short asynchronous programming challenges, including an automated coding assessment
  • A live coding interview with one of the founders
  • A half-day final-round virtual onsite conducted via video call

Requirements

  • Have at least 2 years of experience doing full-stack, product development work. We have a wide salary range, as we do want to accept a range of candidate experiences properly.
  • Are a Javascript developer comfortable with React and/or React Native.
  • Are a product person: you’ve built products end-to-end before, and really care about the people who use them.
  • Are comfortable with picking up various technologies for the task at hand. We quickly evaluate libraries and tools that could help our product, and variously use Redis, Elasticsearch, and Python as needed too.
  • Are entrepreneurial: excited about joining a small, high-growth team and talking to users, doing product and design, and wearing a variety of hats.
  • Love travel and believe in it as a positive force personally and for the world.

Benefits

  • Medical
  • Vision
  • Dental
  • FSA or HSA plans
  • Paid sick leave
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