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About the Company Our client believes that quality journalism plays a great role in our lives. It enables us to understand and navigate the world better when we are provided with the right content in the right format at the right time. We want to transform the way journalism is consumed to close the existing gap between readers and creators by making it accessible & sustainable. We are an editorial, engineering & design driven team based in Berlin, working remote-first building the next go-to platform for journalism.  Thats why our mission is to make exceptional stories and experiences everywhere accessible to everyone, every day. 🦸 Your role at the company: They are currently building our first MVP of our mobile app for iOS and Android and our React-based web app. We are using GraphQL on the backend to power our Next.js web application. The app is running containerised in AWS with CloudFront as CDN using server-side rendering and static site generation where possible. We expect the web application to become our companion app to the mobile application used for SEO and by power users, so high performance is a must.We are looking for a Frontend engineer to join our dev team and help us build a fast web app that has great UX. What they would like to see You have an eye for detail but also know when to apply the 80/20 principle You have an entrepreneurial spirit and are excited to build a product and a system from the ground up You are a problem solver who creatively and selectively applies technology to a problem You have a strong opinion on how to design, build and operate scalable and resilient applications You are a constant learner, do not shy away from trying new things and share your knowledge but can also admit when you were wrong You are a good communicator in spoken and written English, able to translate between tech and business speak We believe that great teams are built on diversity, fairness and respect for each other, our stakeholders and consumers and so should you 🌈 Bonus: You like good food 🍱 Your experience You have 5+ years experience in Frontend or Full-Stack development Professional experience with React or similar web technologies in JavaScript or TypeScript An eye for UX to aid our designers in building an amazing web experience An understanding of SEO/SEM and web performance You have a startup mindset and want to shape a new product from scratch: we are just building our MVP, so there is a lot of room for you to bring yourself in! A desire to constantly improve and share your knowledge 💡 They do not expect that you check everything on this list. If some of this applies and you want to grow, gain more experience and create meaningful impact we definitely would love to hear from you. Our frontend tech stack Elixir-based backend using Phoenix and Absinthe Lambda functions for tasks that are better done in other languages, e.g. JavaScript Server-side rendered Next.js app as our web frontend (TypeScript, Apollo, TailwindCSS) Cross-platform mobile apps with Flutter All apps hosted in AWS Fargate with ECS and all the infrastructure is managed in Terraform Automated CI/CD pipelines pushing code from our laptops into production within minutes Their offer Work in a remote-first company from anywhere within +/-3h from Berlin (CET) Be part of an international and diverse team and grow with us Flexible working hours 30 vacation days per year heavily subsidised Urban Sports Club membership VSOP (Virtual Stock Option Plan) for every early-stage employee Proper hardware to do your job, e.g. MacBook Pro M1 That’s how they assess First, we'll get to know each other - this is not an interview but a conversation Second, you’ll have to do some coding. We have a small task prepared that you can finish at your own pace in the safe space of your home. Third, we want to see your solution. You're going to demo your application and we will talk about its design. We'll also going to ask some general tech questions. Fourth, you'll meet the rest of the team to get to know each other. We strongly believe that diversity and culture are equally important as our hard skills, so we want to make sure we match. → We hope to do this within 2 weeks. Starting time depends on you, as we are ready! 🧒🏼 We know it's difficult to carve out time out off your busy schedules for a coding task when you're a mother, father or any other kind of caregiver. Please mention it in our first conversation, so we can find an individual solution that works for you! Originally posted on Himalayas