Job overview
Build, deploy, and maintain UI for our AI-powered video monitoring and notification features. This is a chance to be part of a small, high-functioning team bringing a cutting-edge machine learning product to market.
We are less concerned about previous experience and training than we are about raw cognitive ability, a solid work ethic and spirit of collaboration, excellent written and verbal communication skills, and ability to engage with, think about, and clearly articulate complex topics.
This role is a contract-to-hire, entry level position and is fully remote (US). However, the candidate would be ideally based in Oregon.
About the company
Survant James works with startups and medium-sized businesses to create beautifully designed and robustly engineered web and mobile apps along with the server infrastructure on which those apps depend. Professional polyglots, delivering quality code for frontend and backend projects.
The client you will be working with provides video streaming systems and software to early childhood education, enrichment, and pet care centers. They are the leader in this space and their products are enjoyed by 1 million+ users in North America. Their latest software uses AI to turn classroom video into data that fuels a safer and smarter school.
About our engineering team
We act as an extension of our client's engineering department and are fully integrated in all aspects of strategic and day-to-day processes. For all intents and purposes, we are the same team and there is no agency/client distinction.
We take testing, validation, and automation extremely seriously. Sometimes we ship the wrong features, but we don't ship bugs. We utilize a Continuous Delivery release process and confidently deploy multiple times per day. In the rare case where something does go wrong, we build out guardrails to prevent it from ever happening again.
There are no big egos on this team. We pride ourselves on being multidisciplinary and pushing ourselves out of our comfort zones. While we do gravitate to certain roles or areas of the system, we actively work to prevent information siloing by rotating folks between frontend and backend tasks.
Responsibilities
Write well-thought-out implementation plans for all tasks and proactively seek out clarity on any requirements.
Approach coding with a test-first mindset (red, green, refactor).
Collaborate with stakeholders from product, customer support, machine learning, etc. to better understand needs.
Collaborate with stakeholders from product, customer support, machine learning, etc. to better understand needs.
Evaluate requests/feedback from other teams based on feasibility and make recommendations, bearing in mind on-the-ground realities of the systems.
Provide and respond to code reviews.
Technical skills
Familiarity with
Command line tools: Unix, Bash, Git
Standard frontend languages: JavaScript, HTML, CSS
Testing frameworks and concepts
Nice to Have
Stack-specific languages/frameworks: React, TypeScript, Sass, Webpack/Vite
Comfort with graphics/image editors/wireframing tools
Familiarity with machine learning concepts/techniques
Experience or a desire to learn Java and/or AWS
Soft skills
Comes to work in a spirit of collaboration
Gives and receives feedback in a courteous and professional manner
Takes ownership and responsibility for tasks while sharing and diffusing knowledge about different system areas across the team
Seeks answers independently, yet asks for help when stuck; explains coherently where answers have been already sought and what actions have already been tried
Applying
Please reply with resumé (with link to Github account) and cover letter.
