Desired Skills and Experience
- Get in on the ground floor and become an owner of a new, industry-transforming company.
- Consult with former kayak.com founding employee & Chief Architect Bill O’Donnell, who is a technical advisor to the company.
- Create your own solutions to challenging technical problems.
- Choose the tools that will be used by you and your colleagues.
- Make mistakes, disrupt the status quo, and help us create the engineering culture that you would like!
- Build your own dream job.
- Fun, kind, fast, and flexible
- A good communicator
- Passionate about digital content, especially ebooks and audiobooks
- Xamarin or React Native for cross-platform app development on the following platforms:
- iOS
- Windows UWP (Windows 10, Xbox, Phone, Holographic, etc.)
- Android (including Kindle)
- Mac OS (optional)
- In-App Purchases
- EPUB reader
- MP3 player for both local files and streaming
- User account security and data encryption
- HTML5 and JavaScript
- Connecting to a PostgreSQL database and S3 to access content
- E-commerce and security best practices
- Ruby-on-Rails (to cross support our web developers)
- E-commerce and security best practices
- AWS hosting and management
- NGINX and Ubuntu sysadmin
- Audio processing or speech recognition programming
- Game programming
- Strong team-building and project management record
- Leadership
- Work on your own and with other developers developing mobile apps to accompany our ebook and audiobook store
- Build tight integration between the apps and our backend database so the user experience is preserved whether accessing on a web browser from a desktop or form your app
- Nurture a healthy engineering culture