Teach Lead - software engineer
Our goal at Novu is to establish a new standard for software development. We are building the API's and tools for next-generation companies to communicate with their customers better. Novu is designed on the practices and processes of relentless focus, fast execution, and commitment to the quality of craft.
Novu was founded in 2021 to create a notification infrastructure built for engineering teams to create the next-gen standard for product-to-user communication experiences.
Set up as an All Remote team from the beginning. The team is distributed between Europe and Asia and US-East coast. We only hire within those time zones. Join a diverse team of makers that love new challenges and value the craft of our work.
Being a small team, we tend to touch a lot of surface area and work challenges: Front-end, backend, architecture, API design, Design systems, DevOps, and really everything needed to build a truly incredible experience for our users and their users.
We live and breathe open-source, as a fully open-source company, we build publicly to hear the incredible opinions that the OSS community can offer. We are not only building a community, we are living inside one. Participating in the great work that so many amazing individuals do.
We use TypeScript to build a scalable system we constantly improve. Not only for ourselves but also for our open-source contributors. We don't expect you to have a background in all the tools we use, but we do expect a strong JavaScript foundation and background in working with React.
What you'll do
Building new user-facing features API's, SDK's, UI components, and data entities
Build and work in the open-source community and interact with community members
Adding analytics, monitoring, and alerts to our service so that we can better respond to incidents in order to deliver value for our users and community.
Create tools and API's for developers, always thinking about usability and Developer Experience
Build a scalable architecture that is used as a backbone to a lot of product and engineering teams around the world.
Build a new solution that is the living heart of companies, a pivotal point of product-to-customer communication.
Tech
React frontend with Emotion, utilizing hooks for the composability of functionality
Websocket technology
Public REST API that has access to all of the user's data
Node.js, MongoDB, and Redis in the backend
Hosted on AWS with Terraform provisioning
GitHub, Discord, Notion
Design system with React component library
Nest.js with a use case architecture
Testing our code with Cypress and Mocha
Our code is public, check it out on GH https://github.com/novuhq/novu/
What we offer
Work-life balance
Competitive salary and equity
Employee-friendly equity terms
MacBook Pro and accessories
Stipend to set up your home office
Work remotely, no commuting to the office
Paid co-working space/desk at an office
Regular team events and off-sites
Requirements
Minimum 6 years of experience in software development
Javascript experience
React, Angular, or Vue hands-on experience
How are we recruiting?
As part of being a transparent company, we want the whole process to be known, so you won't feel like you’re in the dark. Feel free to read about it here: Recruitment Process