Here's the tl;dr:
This is Rise
We set out to build a company that helps teams make the most of their time. Why? Because time is the most valuable asset we can spend only once. Becoming more aware of the fact that we have limited time is one of our key beliefs. And, not coincidentally, the central point in Rick’s bestselling book.
Overview
The Rise web app is written in TypeScript using React and Mobx. It is using websockets to receive real-times updates from the backend. We are looking for a product engineer that works on all of it, but primarily focusses on building a fantastic user experience.
What you'll be working on
You'll focus on building new features and enhancing user experience in our calendar product. Some examples:
- Implementing delightful small animations that help our users orient and get things done
- Researching and implementing features that help users save time when using the product
- Implementing accessibility features, like keyboard handling and shortcuts
- Improving and expanding the Rise onboarding flow that helps new users and teams get started
What our ideal candidate looks like 💅
- Extensive experience with Javascript and/or Typescript
- Extensive experience with CSS
- Extensive experience with React and/or Angular
- Cares a lot about high quality, readable, structured code. Advocates best practices and architecture patterns. Is able to make trade-offs between extensibility, optimization and execution speed. Empowers others by reviewing code.
- Proficient with different types of testing (integration, unit, stress, etc)
- Has a habit of being paranoid about security and privacy (input validation, network encryption, authentication, authorization)
- Is autonomous, able to independently pick up tasks and full projects and work through them end-to-end
- Is product and user minded: is always focused on how their work will impact or optimize the experience of Rise users
We realize that as a founding team we're from similar backgrounds, that we have unconscious biasses and that we have work to do here. This is why we explicitly want to invite and encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.