You and your team will build a new product from the ground up in 3 months. Your
team will be small, flat, and cross functional. Help your team bridge the gap
between user needs, technical constraints, and business value, merging the
necessary elements that make truly excellent products. This is a founder-style
environment where roles overlap and evolve. You are expected to bring your
specialized skills to bear for your team but prepare to wear as many hats as it
takes to get the job done. Individual performance matters, but success is
ultimately measured by the progress of your team’s startup.
You will:
* Care about and empathise with the end user.
* Hit the ground running and begin writing meaningful shipping code by the end
of week one, so you will need to have relevant software development
experience.
* Embrace core concepts and design patterns used in contemporary software
engineering, including object-oriented, protocol-oriented, and reactive
programming.
* Review code from peer engineers to promulgate best practices.
* Communicate development status to stakeholders—technical or otherwise.
* Learn and leverage relevant new technologies, tools, methods and processes in
your development efforts.
* Define, document, and communicate objectives, requirements and constraints
for product initiatives and releases.
* Collaborate with your teammates to prioritise product enhancements based on
impact.
* Communicate development status and document progress toward milestones.
QUALIFICATIONS
* Recently completed a Bachelor’s or advanced degree from a top-tier
university.
* An entrepreneurial work style and attitude, you’re a self-starter with a bias
towards action.
* Excellent organisational skills.
* Experience developing in a high-level programming language (Python,
JavaScript, Java, Swift, etc.).
* Open minded. You know what you don’t know and are open to learning new
things.
* Empathetic.
* Comfortable in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment.
* Great