About us
We are a small startup with a big mission, to transform organizational culture through the power of documentary storytelling! We are a tight-knit team of problem solvers and change-makers, passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion. We practice what we preach and have our clients' needs at the center of how we create value.
About the position
As we are growing rapidly on all fronts, we are looking to hire our first full-time technical team member to design, build, and maintain Storybolt’s technology stack. The ideal candidate to join our team is an experienced software engineer with solid product knowledge and background and a strong user-centered approach. This role is a combination of strategy and hands-on development and is ideally suited for someone who shares our passion and mission, enjoys the startup pace and culture, and is interested in growing into a leadership role in the near future.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Create a technology roadmap based on our existing and future product needs
- Design an appropriate architecture
- Work with the product management team to build specifications
- Implement and deploy rapidly in a lean manner
Knowledge and Skills
Successful candidates will have several of the following:
- 4+ years of full-time professional development experience
- Frontend experience in at least one component-based framework (React, Vue, Angular, etc)
- Backend experience in at least one common MVC framework (Django, Rails, Express, etc)
- Cloud experience with at least one of AWS, Azure or GCP
- Knowledge of product design and development
- Understanding of DevOps and cloud operations
- Experience with project tracking & project management software such as JIRA, Trello, Asana
- The ability to balance time to market with maintainability
- Excellent communication skills
- Willingness and ability to learn
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience
Storybolt is a remote company, for those based in America's time zones, but prefers staff in Chicago or Toronto to align with its core teams.