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What Ethically Brings:
A place where your work can have an impact - working closely with a tightly-knit team to build a meaningful product. Your next favorite brand should have a positive social and or environmental impact. Empowering consumers with options, existing brands having solid impacts, first changes consumption habits and then enable a larger Consumer Produced Goods industry evolution.
The Mission & Job:
Ethically, led by Jada McLean focuses on the intersections of environmental, sustainability, and governance (ESG) data, consumer behavior, and creating software towards shifting in-real-life practices that contribute to environmental harm reduction, protection, and symbiosis.
A Full Stack Engineer at Ethically is a person who loves solving challenging problems like: normalizing data across sources, designing schemas enabling feature success, data and schema migrations for feature evolution, and writing resilient cross-browser native JavaScript. They may have a specialty or expertise, though they can dig into any part of the stack to advance the product.
Our Stack Snapshot:
- Browser Extension & Website: Native cross-browser JavaScript, via injection or service worker/background script
- React, and react-like minimalist frameworks
- Compute & Storage: NodeJS “cloud functions” backend, currently Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Document (key-value) storage, currently Firebase, probable graph database evolution
- Integration & delivery: Emerging continuous integration with testing via Github Actions
Ideal Experience:
- 2+ years of native Javascript development experience Strong React or react-like framework experience
- Strong Cloud Services experience, ideally utilizing NodeJS
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or other STEM fields or equivalent study
- Your Github / portfolio speaks louder than your education/resume
- Technical product development experience, ideally within a startup
- Comfortable working independently though possessing strong communication skills to collaborate towards results
Your Capabilities:
- Working autonomously as the first Engineering hire, joining the CTO
- Crafting understandable code, balancing reliability and scope creep with shipping features
- Attending remote meetings whilst communicating with emotional intelligence
- Capability for context switching as features and priorities evolve
- Maintaining awareness and prioritizing: team mission, respective north-star metrics, and workload relevancy
You’ll be a good fit if:
- You are self-driven, have a passion for learning new skills and solving complex technical issues
- You strive for excellence when appropriate and are comfortable with good-enough otherwise
- You stay aware of and utilize best practices while avoiding premature optimization
- You value radical candor, feedback, and assume good intentions
- You understand the importance of documenting features, writing tests, and maintaining a quality codebase
If you don't fit the exact criteria above, please still feel free to apply! Our team is committed to self-improvement, growth, and teaching one another.
More About Ethically:
Ethically is a product recommendation assistant that does the work of finding brands that are aligned with your unique values. By sharing your values, we’ll reveal brands that are most aligned so you can easily make the switch to sustainable. Our matching algorithm uses trusted third-party certifications like Fair Trade certified, Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production, and Global Organic Textile Standard, ensuring you have a lower impact contributing to a better future.
Ethically provides each member of our team with:
-Premium Health, Vision, and Dental
-BYOD, Bring your own device/hardware monthly stipend or a new device
-Flexible schedule + fully remote work- Unlimited PTO
-Stock in Ethically
this is a full-time position.
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