Backend Software Engineer

The Company

TaskHuman is organizing the world’s human expertise, making coaching in 1000+ skills instantly accessible to you in a multitude of forms. Whether you connect live with a specialist on a 1:1 video call, message directly in-app, join a group session, or learn via coach-generated content, our value of human connection is the foundation of every interaction at TaskHuman.

The Opportunity

Our goal is to foster billions of connections supporting personal and professional skill development worldwide. As part of this journey, we are looking for a Backend Software Engineer that will be in charge of creating and maintaining APIs and Admin tool utilizing WebSockets, messaging queues, MongoDB, and more. You will collaborate with other engineers and developers who are working on various infrastructure layers. As a result, dedication to creative problem-solving, intelligent design, and producing high-quality products is crucial. As a startup company, we need a self-starter that is able to be very hands-on and effectively communicate with individuals at all levels within the organization. Being flexible and ready for change in our fast growing organization is essential as well!

Our employees enjoy:

• Competitive base salaries
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Stock options
• Generous and flexible time off
• Unlimited coaching on TaskHuman
• Fully remote

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the whole cycle of feature development, from ideation to actual delivery
• Create RESTful services with Node.js, MongoDB and JavaScript
• Create new capabilities in the internal Admin tool
• Ensure desired code coverage of new development with unit testing
• Perform code reviews and approval of changes
• Contribute to the application support process by responding and resolving of customer issues

Requirements:

• Strong development and operations experience with Node.js, RESTful APIs, MongoDB, Redis, Javascript (ES6+), Typescript
• Focus on product quality, creating code that is readable, scalable and secure
• Discipline to test changes thoroughly, strong experience with Jest or another JS unit testing framework
• Basic understanding and experience with React.js, Redux, and Material UI
• General understanding of cloud-native architecture, AWS managed services, CI/CD pipelines and observability tooling
• Experience with Agile environment and modern software development practices
• Great communicator and team player, you can lead by example
• Ability to adjust the working schedule to have an intersection with the US team
• Fluency in English

Great to have

• Middle-level experience as frontend engineer with React.js, Redux, Material UI

TaskHuman provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.