Senior Software Engineer

Remote - Permanent

Who are we looking for?

As a Beta Acid Senior Full Stack Engineer, you will be an integral part of our internal and client-facing team. This means you are:

• An excellent communicator - we expect all engineers to actively engage with other team members, managers, and agency leadership to make sure you are clear on your responsibilities to deliver projects with quality and on time.
• An active participant in all aspects of agile software development including daily standups, weekly rituals, design, implementation, QA, and deployment.
• Intuition for how to balance perfection versus "good enough".
• Passionate about architecting, providing guidance on, and building end-to-end systems optimized for speed and scale including:
  • Working with Typescript/Javascript in React, React Native, Node.js, and/or Python.
  • Engaging with designers and other front end engineers to develop reactive and responsive front ends.
  • Helping to write APIs and 3rd party integrations.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 5+ years of full stack experience building web applications or mobile applications
• Professional level English
• Excellent proficiency in Typescript/Javascript, React.js and/or React Native
• Thorough understanding of Python and/or Node.js and its core principles
• Unit/integration testing experience, including Jest
• Experience designing, building, and consuming GraphQL and REST APIs
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases (Postgres, MongoDB, DynamoDB, etc.)
• Excellent problem solving, debugging, and optimization skills
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools as well as Babel, Webpack, NPM, Yarn, Git, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Extensive knowledge of serverless cloud-based infrastructure, particularly using AWS (Lambda, SQS, API Gateway, CloudFront, IAM, RDS, etc.)
• Knowledge of Next.js, and other React web frameworks
• Knowledge of a secondary platform like Python/Django/Flask or Ruby on Rails
• Integration experience with Shopify, SendGrid, Twilio, Stripe, GraphCMS/Hygraph, Contentful, and other developer platforms
• Experience with Storybook and Chromatic
• Experience with DevOps tools, particularly Terraform or CloudFormation

Location & Hours

This is a 100% remote position, however, your work day must overlap by at least 70% with US East Coast working hours.

Benefits

• Unlimited paid time off + Beta Acid is closed for 20 US holidays per year (including 9 days in December).
• Unlimited learning via Udemy.
• USD 500 stipend for home office supplies and equipment.

Quality Assurance Engineer

Remote - Permanent

Who are we looking for?

As a Beta Acid Quality Assurance Engineer, you will be an integral part of our internal and client-facing team. This means you are:

• An excellent communicator - we expect all QA Engineers to actively engage with other team members, managers, and agency leadership to make sure you are clear on your responsibilities to deliver projects with quality and on time.
• An active participant in all aspects of agile software development including daily standups, weekly rituals, design, implementation, QA, and deployment.
• Intuition for how to balance perfection versus "good enough".
• Passionate about developing the right level of documentation for each project
• A proactive member of the development team by proposing, implementing, executing, maintaining, and reporting on QA solutions for each project.
• Extremely detail-oriented with an aptitude for noticing small imperfections in seemingly high-quality work.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 5+ years in quality assurance roles for software products
• Excellent proficiency in quality assurance approaches for cross-platform products
• Strong experience in identifying, reporting, and triaging defects.
• Ability to create, design, maintain, and execute a QA plan for a project.
• Ability to understand business and development requirements and translate them into quality assurance test plans or tasks.
• Very strong communication skills and experience collaborating with design, development, and management to complete QA tasks.
• Familiarity with QA automation (e.g., Selenium, Appium, or Cypress).
• Experience creating automation frameworks from scratch and ability to design, maintain, and execute automated scripts.

Location & Hours

This is a 100% remote position, however, your work day must overlap by at least 70% with US East Coast working hours.

Benefits

• Unlimited paid time off + Beta Acid is closed for 20 US holidays per year (including 9 days in December).
• Unlimited learning via Udemy.
• USD 500 stipend for home office supplies and equipment.