Remote Full-Stack Developer at Spidergap with Work-Life Balance (JavaScript, Node.js, React)
- Location: Remote
- Job Type: Full-time
About Spidergap
At Spidergap, we’ve created a SaaS business that combines top talent, ambitious goals, AND a focus on supporting the well-being, work-life balance, and personal growth of our team.
We’ve been fully remote for over 10 years, and our founders both balance their roles with supporting their young families. We all enjoy 40 days a year vacation (inclusive of bank hols).
We’re proud of the platform we’ve created — the top-rated 360° Feedback tool, used by thousands of businesses in 134+ countries. And we’re pumped about where we’re taking it next!
Remote Full-Stack Developer at Spidergap Role Description
We’re recruiting a full-stack developer to join our product team at Spidergap/AirManual.
This is a rare opportunity to join a small, 100% remote, profitable and ambitious company that also appreciates that there’s more to work than revenue!
At Spidergap/AirManual, we’re:
- Fueled by the passion and exceptional talent of a successful start-up
- Hungry to amaze our customers and grow the business
- Always looking to grow as individuals and a team
- AND Focused on doing it all without unnecessary stress, and with a healthy work-life balance
If you’re a software developer who moves quickly and values code quality, wants to grow by working in a small and experienced team, and loves helping real customers to achieve their goals… then read on!
We’re looking for people who share our values:
Focus on impact:
- We know our growth is dependent on increasing the value we deliver to customers.
- We focus our energy on improvements that will make a real difference, with a desired outcome made clear up-front.
- We expect everyone to understand why they are working on a particular activity or objective, being clear on how it will benefit the business and our customers.
Be proactive and dependable:
- Everyone can solve problems and remove barriers to growth both personally and for the company.
- We are quick to raise issues and ideas, and to recommend next steps.
- We make it easier for others to feel they can depend on us by being proactive in our communication and action.
Pay attention to detail:
- We believe the quality of everything we do is a competitive advantage.
- We expect high attention-to-detail, whether it’s in how we write an email, review our analytics, or design the site.
- We delight in getting the details right, even in internal documents. High attention to detail isn’t something you turn on and off it’s an attitude.
Always look to improve:
- We survive and grow by constantly looking for opportunities to improve our solutions, our processes and ourselves.
- We own our mistakes, using them as an opportunity to learn what changes we should make to processes and tools.
- We expect our people to proactively look for opportunities to develop and improve our own performance.
Enjoy the journey:
- We consider our health and families to be more important than work.
- We ensure no-one feels that they are frequently required to work excessive hours.
- We support each other in overcoming problems and achieving work and life goals.
- We’re positive and enthusiastic helping everyone feel energized to take us to the next level.
- We don’t pin our happiness on the attainment of a particular end goal, we delight in each step along the way.
A large part of the work will be developing and supporting new functionality using TypeScript/NodeJS/React.
We follow “clean” code principles, agile processes and continuous integration tools to efficiently take features from concept to roll-out, and to continuously optimize our processes.
Your attention to detail will help us to amaze our customers, and to grow our services and codebase in a robust and maintainable way.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate to deliver solutions from design to release
- Write reliable, modular, well-tested and “clean” code
- Proactively raise ideas and issues, contributing to designs with feedback and suggestions for improvement
- Support other team members through peer review
- Help to optimize our development processes and build tools
- Ensure progress, issues and ideas are communicated clearly to the right people
- Help us to deliver outstanding customer support.
Tech stack (Spidergap):
- TypeScript
- Node.js (NestJS)
- Remix (React)
- MySQL
- Google Cloud
AirManual uses a similar tech stack, using PostgresSQL rather than MySQL and currently reviewing whether to adopt Remix + TypeScript.
You may be occasionally asked asked to support legacy solutions developed with Express, Create React App, AngularJS, Loopback, and PHP.
Tools:
- GitHub
- Slack
- Codeship
- Dropbox Paper
- GMail
- Hubspot
- Sentry
- (And many more!)
Requirements:
- Passionate and driven about software development, and about life outside work
- Excellent attention to detail, including a focus on delivering high-quality code that is easy to maintain and scale
- 2+ years of JavaScript experience, working on production code
- Experience with front-end libraries in production such as React or Vue
- Experience with React, SQL, HTML, CSS and automated testing
- Happy to work remotely
- Loves ‘going the extra mile’ to deliver outstanding work
- Believes in and practices self-improvement / personal development
- Keen and able to learn
- Loves technology and figuring out how things work and helping others to do the same
- Communicates clearly, in a friendly way
Location:
- This is a 100% remote job — you are responsible for having an effective work environment.
- You must be a location that overlaps the working hours of our existing team members.
- We will only accept applications in timezones from UTC -4 (New York) to UTC +6 (Dhaka)
Due to local employment and/or international laws, we cannot currently employ people based in Brazil, France, or UAE.
Benefits for the Remote Full-Stack Developer at Spidergap
We strive to make Spidergap the best place to work.
We are doing this by creating the best products in our markets, building a great diverse team, encouraging great work-life balance (including taking lots of annual leave), being family-friendly, having fun, and maintaining a strong culture of continuous improvement (business and personally).
Competitive salary
- We calculate a competitive salary that represents the typical salary (50th percentile) for your role, experience and location.
- This is typically in the range of GBP £45k-£70k / USD $45k-$90k.
Profit share bonus
- Paid annually.
- Based on company profit and individual performance (reviewed throughout the year, not just at the end!).
40 days paid vacation
- inclusive of public holidays. We’ll make sure you take them!
Work remotely
- As long as your internet connection is excellent and you’re able to collaborate when needed, you’re free to work from any location you wish.
Flexible working
- You’ll need some set hours in which to collaborate with the team, but we’ll do our best to be flexible so you can support your family, friends and/or hobbies!
Annual all-staff meet-up
- Previous locations: Iceland, Barcelona, Berlin, Athens, Edinburgh, Budapest.
4 months paid maternity/paternity leave
Family-friendly work environment
- Both co-founders work from home and have young children so we understand the challenges and what helps!
Health membership contribution
- You can use this to pay for the gym or an equivalent activity.
Bring your own device contribution
- We’ll make sure you have the equipment you need to work efficiently.
Pension contribution
- Typically 10%, depending on country laws.