Full Stack Developer - Remote

At Black Spectacles we're on the hunt for teammates who:

• Are passionate about architecture and making an ambitious impact on the architecture and design community.
• Love to work on small, remote teams
• Owns it- comfortable taking responsibility for your work
• Take calculated risks and encourage others to do the same
• Take a world-class approach to everything you do
• Makes it safe to share ideas
• Takes care of your people

If this sounds like you, we need to talk!

Black Spectacles is an ambitious group of 25 fully remote teammates with the goal of growing to 75 over the next two years to support our purpose of helping architects thrive in their careers, trying to achieve big things to support the architecture community.

At Black Spectacles, you'll benefit from working with a team who lives and celebrates our values every day, and you can be sure that you will regularly see and feel the impact of your work. As a fully remote company you'll benefit from working from home year round, and from quarterly company trips to keep you connected to your team.

Black Spectacles has been recognized by Great Place to Work and Built In as a great place to work, by the American Institute of Architects for the national impact we're having on the profession of architecture, and has been recognized by Inc Magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in the country.

To keep that momentum going strong, we're on the hunt for a Full Stack React Developer to help build a next level SaaS platform for Architects.

You will:

• Develop and maintain frontend, backend, and database code for new and existing products
• Hands-on coding using web development technical stack - React JS, Redux, Node.js (Loopback 4, TypeORM), JavaScript, Typescript
• Establish technical design and architecture for new and existing software products
• Work with our product team to innovate and execute new projects to help grow our business
• Creatively design products from scratch
• Develop and build proprietary data analytics tools

Key outcomes of the job:

• Collaborate with our team to implement engineering best practices
• Ownership of code review/code quality (unit testing)

Requirements

Required skills:

• React JS, Redux
• Node.js, GO
• JavaScript, Typescript
• SQL (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)
• AWS (working experience developing solutions using cloud services)
• Must be able to travel to Chicago for quarterly team meetings

Additionally, you might be a great fit if you have experience with:

• Frontend and backend web technologies for SaaS products
• Single page applications
• Strong sense of semantic HTML markup and responsive CSS development
• Application programming interface (both creating and implementing remote services)
• Automated Unit Testing for frontend and backend components
• Docker
• Git, Bitbucket
• Circle CI - Continuous Integration
• AWS Services, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Experience with the Material-UI framework a plus
• Experience with developing AI/ML solutions is a strong plus

Benefits

• Chicago based, fully remote remote role
• 3 weeks of paid vacation
• Blue Cross Blue Shield Health, Dental, Vision, Short-term / Long-term Disability and Life insurance
• Flexible Savings Accounts and Health Savings Accounts
• 401k with Employer match
• Employee referral program
• Team events & quarterly gatherings

Black Spectacles is an equal opportunity employer.