Senior Full Stack Software Developer in United State

Do you want to develop software that helps scientists make breakthroughs, doctors save lives, and historians learn from our past? Join our small, fully-remote software development team to build tools that connect scholars of all disciplines with the peer-reviewed journal articles they need to advance their research. 

Third Iron's industry-leading software services BrowZine and LibKey are used by millions of students, doctors, industry researchers, and scientists affiliated with over 1,500 libraries at universities, hospitals, corporations, and government departments across 36 countries, including places like Stanford University, NASA, Mayo Clinic, NHS England, and University of Hong Kong.

In a refreshing change from advertising-dependent tech companies or those who sell user data, we instead have a straightforward business-to-business model. We sell our subscription-based services to libraries that may be used by anyone affiliated with them. We do not sell user data.  Our focus is on building the best software to enable research that changes the world.

Your Role

As a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, you will help with many stages of the development lifecycle: initial architectural approaches, coding the automated tests and implementation, and reviewing changes by your experienced teammates. Our product owners have a deep understanding of both our external and internal customers needs and wants, which helps ensure the changes we build have maximum positive impact to all of our users. 

Our remote-first company has been building software for over 10 years in a fully distributed team environment, so you’ll be joining a team with plenty of experience putting into practice what works well remotely - and avoiding what doesn’t!. We try to build our products with an eye on the long term, since our new features and products become part of the workflow at libraries and for researchers, and we need to maintain them for the long haul.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to our Third Iron tools and backend systems, written primarily in Node.js and Postgres, and used by our operations team to manage large amounts of data from over 1,300 library customers
• Help shape and build our APIs, used both internally and by third parties, written in Node.js
• Increase your experience and knowledge of Node.js, Postgresql, Elasticsearch, CouchDB, continuous integration, and load testing. Learn about all the tools we use at our StackShare
• Optimize and help scale our Heroku and AWS cloud-based systems as our customer base grows to ensure solid performance for all users
• Opportunities to assist with our many front-end clients: our BrowZine and LibKey web apps built with Ember, a separate customer portal web app built with React, and our browser extension LibKey Nomad is built with React

What We’re Looking For

• Experience with SQL; we use Postgres to store the majority of our data, and maintaining very fast APIs and internal processes is important to us. Bonus if you have NoSQL experience, such as ElasticSearch or CouchDB
• An interest in NodeJS and JavaScript
• Strong communication skills – since we are a remote team, clear, timely, and frequent communication is essential
• Experience writing automated tests alongside your code – we rely on numerous automated tests to help avoid regressions, both at the acceptance and unit level
• Experience with source control, ideally git
• Self-motivation and comfort working independently, which we've found is important for remote working
• Interest in lifelong learning, including learning new technologies. We embrace the tools and techniques that help us build great software which lets us sleep soundly at night, with high confidence that our users are having a delightful experience and our servers are not catching fire
• Interest in AI, even if you're just getting started. We are evaluating various approaches to incorporating AI into our workflows, discussing what works and what doesn't. We're excited to have a new teammate's experiences inform us all, too
• People with U.S. work authorizations. (We are looking for a full-time developer to join our team, so please, no software development firms looking to hire out contractors - we're interested in talking directly to software developers)

Working at Third Iron

Third Iron is a small company of 30 employees, and our growth and success have been fueled by the passionate, curious people who work here.

Understanding that work is just part of your life, Third Iron also provides benefits including health, dental, long-term disability, paid time-off, home-office stipend, and more. It's why most employees who work at Third Iron spend many years of their careers here. You could, too!

Apply

To apply, simply fill out the job application here or at https://thirdiron.applytojob.com/apply/McK2VdxTuX/Senior-FullStack-Software-Engineer , and please include anything that helps demonstrate how you are an effective software developer teammate. Examples include your GitHub, Bitbucket, or StackOverflow profile, or some sample code, articles, or presentations you’ve created, or even just reporting bugs on open source projects. We're looking for something to help us learn how you contribute to a team.