Alexsei Looking for Senior Full Stack Web Developer at Remote Full Time

Job description

About Alexsei:

Alexsei is an artificial intelligence company building applications for legal professionals that make knowing the law easy and affordable. We are a fast-growing, well-funded startup with customers right across Canada and the United States.

This is an opportunity to join a startup with a proven product-market fit that is scaling massively in a >$300B industry. You will work directly with the founding team and earliest employees to solve important and meaningful problems. You’ll be given room to take risks, make mistakes, and find creative solutions.

We work in a trust-based, mission-driven, goal-oriented, fully-remote work environment. We enable each other, but also consciously protect our time to deliver high-quality work to help create a thriving innovation culture. As a fully-remote company we value transparency and open communication, and we give our teams the independence they need to excel in their areas of responsibility. We recognize that work/life separation is essential for people to bring their best to the job, and we prefer a low-meeting environment.

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About the role:

We are looking for a senior full-stack web developer with thorough knowledge of the Ruby on Rails and React.js frameworks, and a desire to solve real-world problems by building intuitive applications that interface with powerful technology built by our AI and Engineering teams.

As a product developer, you’ll join a small team at the nexus of Alexsei’s customers, partners, developers, and other staff. You’ll work on features from start to finish, you’ll integrate capabilities built by our AI teams, and you’ll have the freedom to build the front-end and back-end pieces necessary to get the user experience just right. You’ll take some ownership over product direction, and you will have a substantial opportunity to make your mark on Alexsei and its products.

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Compensation and Benefits:

• 110k-140k base salary
• Equity incentive plan
• Health/dental benefits plan
• Annual company retreats (otherwise fully remote)
• 3-5 weeks annual paid time off
• Additional winter holiday (Dec 25 – Jan 1)
• Flexible work hours and location. We’re cool with remote work! In-person office workspace can be made available in Toronto (if required)
• Company supplied laptop and home-office budget
• Annual performance evaluation

In a week on the job:

• You’ll design, build, and maintain the front-end and back-end parts of features of several apps
• You’ll develop new feature concepts and requirements with your colleagues
• You’ll plan and scope out work in sprints
• You’ll liaise with users to resolve issues in production on occasion

Alexsei embraces equity and inclusion, candidates of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

Requirements:

• You have at least a bachelor’s degree in computer science or software engineering, an equivalent degree, or equivalent experience
• You are based in Canada
• You can work full-time (40 hours per week)
• You can work fully remotely

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Ideal Candidate Qualities:

• You have 4+ years of professional software development experience
• You thrive in a remote work environment and you have excellent communication, prioritization, and organization skills
• You like to write well engineered, well tested code with excellent style
• From requirements analysis, to development, to user support and more, you’re comfortable wearing whichever hat is needed to deliver the best possible product and experience
• You’re confident to take ownership over an app and to think holistically about how its components fit together
• You’re passionate about software development and have interests in tech beyond work

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Essential Technical Skills:

The successful candidate will be highly experienced and have strong fundamental skills with all or most of these technologies:

• Ruby on Rails
• React.js
• Postgres + SQL
• HTML + CSS + JS
• Git