Type: Remote, permanent, full-time position
Do you have a soft spot for profitable companies with a meaningful, globally used and loved product? Would you like to work within a compact, super-capable team in a refreshing work environment? Would you like to work on an application that is changing the way we learn and communicate? Drops could be the place for you.
About you:
You re a no-nonsense person, comfortable taking on a variety of projects who has been working within product companies and has extensive front-end development experience.
You ve spent years working with React and have experience in React Native with a deep understanding of the internal workings be it working within the browser or a mobile client. You enjoy the challenge of growing a product from an (already) large user base to a larger one with tens of millions of MAU with all the complexities it comes with.
You are an advocate for static typing and prefer to use a minimal set of simple tools over a diverse range of complex ones.
You believe variety is the spice of life - In this role, you ll be developing a complex app deployable to web and app stores, a static site generator, building internal automation infrastructure/tooling and contributing to our internal CMS. You could also be working on our fully serverless architecture on the backend if you feel comfortable doing so.
Drops is a deliberately small, but super effective team. You re naturally drawn to the fate of the products & driven to grow as an engineer rather than to manage people.
The role:
You ll be a core part of the development team, working on both our main (Drops) and auxiliary products (Droplets, Visual Dictionary, Internal CMS tooling). Drops values clear, honest communication and transparency. It s the linchpin of our culture, success and freedom. You ll be involved in both high and low level decision making and are available during European working hours (10AM - 6PM CET). Remember, we re looking for a missionary here rather than a mercenary.
You will:
- Work cross functionally with our lead designer / data analyst / engineers / project owner to define, scope, estimate and plan various aspects of the product.
- Work independently (and with other engineers!) to develop new web experiences
- Support of production applications / sites that you ve built or helped to build
- Communicate effectively and often to ensure that everyone is aligned
What d be different here:
- We re a small team. We re optimising for impact, not for headcount. You ll be carefully considering any tradeoff that would lead to increased complexity
- We re using a single programming language - TypeScript. We have strict linter rules Every pull request needs to be approved before it lands in master. We use the rebase workflow and we release a few times a week
- We re using React + Redux to develop UI, on both mobile and the web. We use selectors extensively. Our backend is on AWS, deployed multi-region to Lambda and using RDS for our DB
- We are BIG on AB testing. We focus on releasing high impact projects and minimise noise
- We re doing things in a functional way, concentrating state, minimising side effects and making dependencies explicit. We re sharing 98%+ of the code between Android, iOS and Web
- We automate where it has positive ROI
- Our biggest challenge is (and will remain) managing the complexity of sharing a lot of code between different apps
You have:
- At least 5 years of experience in software (product) development
- At least 2 years of experience in building apps with React or React Native with state management tools (redux, flux, etc)
- Experience architecting and developing complex web or mobile apps and static sites
- Some experience in understanding basic user funnels, and collaborating with support to resolve user-facing issues
- Project management experience (everyone manages projects at Drops)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- The ability to work well cross-functionally
- Experienced in strongly typed languages
Benefits:
- All the perks of remote working
- An awesomely compact 20 person team
- Yearly educational allowance
- Fitness allowance
- High-end Apple hardware and ergonomic accessories
- 36 days of holiday per year
- Quarterly team gathering somewhere in the world (Amsterdam, Iceland, Lisbon and Budapest were previous locations)