Job Summary
As a principal full-stack developer, you’ll be more than just a coder. You’ll collaborate with a talented team on interesting problems, and be in a position to lead Parabol’s technological direction. And, you’ll be able to work anywhere in the world and enjoy a culture that makes you want to stay.
Your Mission:
- Reimagine the future of remote work
- Use the latest tools: K8s, PostgreSQL, Redis, GraphQL, Typescript, React
- Architect and establish coding patterns for integrations, search, video, and scalable multiplayer
Your Qualifications:
- Strong technical writing (your tech blog > your degree)
- A history of open-source contributions (links to PRs a plus)
- 3+ years experience writing Typescript
- 3+ years working on an Agile team with a perspective on how teams work together
Benefits
- 💰 Fair & location-agnostic pay: US-based salaries, no matter where you’re based. Plus: early-stage equity in a well-funded, fast-growing startup.
- 🐙🐱Work in the open: Our code is open source, and so is our way of working. We’ve been publishing a weekly update since 2015.
- 🌞 People-first schedules: We limit recurring meetings to 1-2 hours per week per team, with no synchronous daily standups. We offer unlimited PTO to everyone and encourage folks to take time off. We also have both company-wide and country-specific holidays.
- 🌍 Work from anywhere with people around the globe: Our current team stretches from Los Angeles, California to Warsaw, Poland. Work wherever works for you.
- 🌀 Growing faster through experimentation and autonomy: From peer code reviews to monthly sales experiments, we structure our work to maximize learning. Everyone owns their work and can develop their skills quickly.
- 🛫 Quarterly global travel: All-expenses-paid company retreats and team retreats.
- ✨An Equal Opportunity Employer: We founded Parabol to help build stronger teams by empowering members to be their authentic selves. Our company is no exception.
- 💖 Great teammates: An inclusive team of curious and purposeful people on a mission to improve how work gets done.
- 💪 Health care: For US employees, healthcare & benefits are aligned with top industry standards.
- 🔢 No standard coding questions or whiteboard interviews: We’ll assess how we work together by collaborating on a short paid project We want to know how you actually work, not how many LeetCode / Project Euler / Stack Overflow questions you can answer.
Learn more about our purpose and benefits.
Even if you don’t feel that you meet all the criteria we encourage you to apply.
During our hiring process, we take into account your growth potential, not just your prior achievements.
