🤔 Sound like you? 🤔

Authentic: You bring your authentic self to work and are able to have fun, not taking yourself too seriously, and genuinely love what you do.

Autonomous: You are a proactive self-starter and are not afraid to dive into things you don’t fully understand.

Communication Enthusiast: Your written and verbal communication is clear, concise and has high precision.

Community-Driven: You are passionate about the community you’re building for. You enjoy creating delight within your communities.

Documenter: You are a documentation god; meticulously documenting your research, commenting on your code, and contributing to the engineering wiki.

Have taken the Oath of Growth: You have a growth mindset. You give and receive feedback well without getting defensive, take accountability for your mistakes and are eager to learn from them. You approach subjects and issues with curiosity. You self-direct your own learning, and you easily pick up new skills

Problem solver: You excel at understanding and solving complex problems, identifying tech pain points, and thinking about future implications of a solution/feature. You also have incredible attention to detail.

Writes code gud: You are a software engineer generalist and you’re good at it. You complete your work with a high degree of quality. You enjoy pointing out code that ‘smells’, and enforcing best practices/conventions.

💻 Role 💻

StartPlaying is a web-based product. (just fyi 🙃)
Help build excellent engineering culture within the organization.
Help estimate, plan, and execute projects, features, and integrations.
Help maintain engineering guidelines, processes, and coding standards.
Continually grow your technical skills to solve our hardest technical challenges.
Laugh at CEO’s poor attempts at humor.
Develop your skills as a mentor to help build up future junior engineers.
Perform design and code reviews.
Contribute to the product process: thinking through UX, beautiful UI, and connecting with customers to solve their problems.

Requirements

Experience:

3+ years of full-stack development experience
Languages: TypeScript/JavaScript, PostgreSQL, GraphQL or REST, React
Fully Remote

Nice to haves:

AWS
Startup Experience
Mentor Experience

Technologies we use:

Languages: TypeScript, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, React, Next.js
Engineering tools: Linear, GitHub, AWS (Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch)
Other Tools: Superhuman, GSuite, Discord, Brex, GCal, Notion, Justworks, Calendly, Carta, Zoom, Linear, Metabase etc.

Benefits

🤔 What is it really like working at StartPlaying? 🤔

We're a fully remote company. We don't care much about "work signaling" — we care about tangible output.
We try not to take ourselves too seriously. Our Discord is filled with frequent memes, gifs, and music posts.
We critique each other's work, give constructive feedback, and intently listen when others speak.
We love to celebrate each other! Whether it's customer love, a work milestone, or major life event — praise is fundamental at StartPlaying. The best part: figuring out how to surprise and delight your teammates!
We come from eclectic and diverse backgrounds and we respect and openly teach each other about those backgrounds.
We love adding easter eggs to the site or internal documentation.
We listen, if you have ideas on making the company better we want to hear them
We are building the company and the product simultaneously. So if you want to build a cool product and help build a company you’ve come to the right place!

🎁 Benefits 🎁

Salary range: $83k - $113k
Equity Range: 0.037% - 0.050%

✅ Taking Care of Your Future ✅

Medical, dental and vision insurance: 100% coverage for you, 50% coverage for all your dependents.
Voluntary insurance: short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
401(k) plan through Slavic401(k).
Free access to OneMedical, Health Advocate, and Teladoc
Click here for a benefits overview

🏝 Generous Time Off 🏝

Take as much vacation as you like (no less than 2 weeks!)
All Federal holidays, plus Thanksgiving and Winter Break.
- We’re flexible on individuals moving their time off to align with their celebrated holidays.
Flexible parental leave
One free nerd convention (of your choosing) + one company sponsored offsite/trip per year

✍️ Investing in Your Growth ✍️

We budget for your professional development.
We do an optional company “book club”. We read books together and discuss if/how to implement some of the ideas into the company.
We do team building activities and seminars together.

💯 Setting You Up For Success 💯

Custom MacBook Pro.
$1000 budget for workstation setup (not including your MacBook)
Flexible spending accounts for commuter costs, dependent care, and healthcare expenses.

At StartPlaying, we value diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer: we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. (We shouldn’t have to say that, but we unfortunately have to)

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