Senior Web and Internal Tools Developer
Figure 53, a Baltimore-based software company, is hiring a software developer to work on our website, store, backend licensing system, and internal licensing and customer support tools. We’re looking for an accomplished developer with experience maintaining and improving both sides of a client/server software system, with both backend and frontend design and implementation experience. Our hope is that the candidate will become the primary advocate for and designer of these products, collaborating with the team to plan, shepherd, and execute their development.
Our flagship product, QLab, is a powerful tool for designing and playing back sound, video, light, and show control cues. If you’ve watched a play (or the Olympics, or a sports game, or many other live events), chances are you’ve been in the room with QLab. While this position won’t be working much with QLab itself, it would be a bonus if you have interest in theatre, broadcasting, or live events in addition to the technical qualifications outlined below.
The website and web store require facility with frontend JavaScript, Go, and HTML/CSS. Our internal tools include a macOS-based license management application and a Ruby on Rails email support application. Please see below for the full list of technical requirements.
While coding and software design skills are an important aspect of the position, we place just as much importance on communication skills. Our ideal teammate has strong creative and interpersonal skills, because our business structures are unusually decentralized and non-hierarchical. We’d like to hire someone with both the self-motivation to work independently and feel ownership over their projects, and the ability to work cooperatively so that the team can participate in the products’ evolution.
We would prefer to hire a full time (40 hours a week) employee but are open to a ¾-time arrangement (of at least 30 hours a week). We pay a competitive salary, have a formalized profit-sharing system that kicks in after one year, and offer benefits including generous paid vacation and fully paid health insurance. We are an all-remote company. Residency inMaryland, Wisconsin, New York, or California is mildly preferred but we’re open to candidates from anywhere in the US.
Technical Skill RequirementsThe successful applicant will have extensive production experience with at least two of the following, and skills and experience with several or all:
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