• JOB TYPE: Freelance, Contract Position (no agencies/C2C - see notes below)
• LOCATION: Remote - Work from anywhere
• HOURLY RANGE: Our client is looking to pay $15 – $35/hr
• ESTIMATED DURATION: 40h/week - Long-term 

ABOUT US:

Braintrust is the only network that gives in-demand talent all the freedom of freelance with all the benefits, community, and stability of a full-time role. As the first decentralized talent network, our revolutionary Web3 model ensures the community that relies on Braintrust to find work are the same people who own and build it through the blockchain token, BTRST. So unlike other marketplaces that take 20% to 50% of talent earnings, Braintrust allows talent to keep 100% of earnings and to vote on key changes to improve the network. Braintrust is working to change the way freelance works – for good.

THE OPPORTUNITY

About The Role

You will be an expert at making our various projects and platform clear and accessible through intelligent development of well-designed visual elements. You will have a strong aptitude for identifying opportunities to improve user experience, robust experience translating design frameworks into code to improve both internal and user-facing applications, and a proactive desire to collaborate with fellow developers, designers, and marketing managers to present a shared artistic vision.

We strive for high standard of engineering quality while solving unique scalability challenges. This is the role for you if you are an excellent communicator with the ability to translate effectively to business team members yet be able to dive deep into technical details when working with development staff. You take complete ownership of the technical implementation of projects and ensure that no stone is left unturned to avoid risks. You take quality very seriously and work to quantify and evaluate new ways of measuring quality to ensure application uptime and a positive user experience, and that we continue to deliver excellent customer experiences.

Your Day-To-Day Will Involve

• Develop and maintain front end functionality in collaboration with our marketing teams
• Provide technical input on planning, design, and requirements-gathering process for marketing and marketing features that are implemented
• Articulate a long term technical direction and vision for maintaining and scaling our web and mobile platforms
• Create trustworthy user experiences by building interfaces that are simple, easy to comprehend, performant and reliable using modern tools like React, React Native, Typescript, React Navigation, Ant Design, and Webpack
• Architect new features, products, and reusable UI paradigms
• Participate in team code review with fellow engineers, with a keen eye towards correctness, style, and information security concerns
• Lead products from inception to launch, and own large parts of the product's execution
• Collaborate with design, product, operations, and market specialists to rapidly iterate on products
• Improve performance, maintainability, and operations of internal tools code base by engaging in occasional refactoring and upgrade projects
• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards

About You

• We are looking to grow our team and are looking to add engineers ranging from 3 to 6 years of software engineering experience
• A strong understanding of UX/UI concepts and interface usability with a demonstrated record of good design flow in interactive applications
• Experience in developing web apps and shipping user-facing features with modern, component-based JS frameworks like React
• Experience developing and shipping user-facing features using component-based UI frameworks
• Demonstrated experience working with data displays and/or large data sets
• Familiar with current trends and best practices in front-end architecture, including performance, security and usability
• Familiar with product and design lifecycles, and collaborating closely with designers, engineers, and product managers
• Understand of functional and reactive programming paradigms
• Great design intuition and user empathy
• Passion for supporting power users and building developer tools
• Write high quality, well tested code
• Solid understanding of relational databases and transactions
• Familiar with writing highly concurrent systems
• Good intuition for REST API design

Bonus Points

• Intimate familiarity of Python, Go, and NodeJS
• Experience with high-growth startups
• Experience working on Kubernetes and Microsoft Azure

Our Technology Stack

• Python, Go, NodeJS as main languages and frameworks of choice
• Container and container orchestration technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Microservice-oriented architectures
• Cloud-native infrastructure (i.e. Microsoft Azure)

Apply Now!

ABOUT THE HIRING PROCESS:

Qualified candidates will be invited to do a screening interview with the Braintrust staff. We will answer your questions about the project, and our platform. If we determine it is the right fit for both parties, we'll invite you to join the platform and create a profile to apply directly for this project.

C2C Candidates: This role is not available to C2C candidates working with an agency. But if you are a professional contractor who has created an LLC/corp around your consulting practice, this is well aligned with Braintrust and we’d welcome your application.

Braintrust values the multitude of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.