We are Proximity a global team of coders, designers, product managers, and experts specialising in solving performance, scale and UX challenges for scale-ups & enterprise companies. Proximity's software engineers build cutting-edge tech products and solve long-term foundational engineering problems that are core to some of the biggest products in the world. We are currently working with international giants like Nasdaq, Disney, ESPN, Hotstar, and several hyper-growth companies across North America & the European Union.
We are looking for a Sr. FullStack (JS) Engineer with a keen eye for design and great UX sensibilities. You will be responsible for the development of new software products (internal) and solving complex technical challenges for scale-ups and enterprise companies. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.
You'll be responsible for
- Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance and maintainable code.
- Coordinating cross-functionally to ensure that projects meet business objectives and compliance standards.
- Participating in and driving code reviews.
- You need Excellent attention to detail with proven expertise at converting Figma, Sketch prototypes into pixel-perfect screens.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated expertise building production-grade and high-performance applications using ES2019/ES2020.
- A high proficiency in React, Redux and TypeScript / ReasonML.
- To be a self-starter who can work well with minimal-to-no guidance in a fluid environment.
- To be excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable and distributed systems.
- The agility and ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities.
- Experience working on massively large scale data systems in production environments.
Bonus points
- For Production-level experience of designing a product for multiple international markets and languages (i18n, l10n).
- Prior experience in Go & Python.Open-source contributions, side-projects, blog posts and YT tech videos.
What you get:
- 100% remote team: Work from anywhere you please.
- Flexible timings: Set your own hours, and create a productive schedule that works for you.
- Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly.
- Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks and learn from experts in the field.
- Keep on learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day.
Proximity Values:
- Born without boundaries: We are a fully remote & distributed team of like-minded people who love a good challenge and thrive in a culture of complexity and innovation.
- Communicate, communicate, overcommunicate: We insist that everyone communicate constantly, openly, and proactively. We encourage asynchronous communication over synchronous, large written briefs over Zoom calls, open channel messages over Slack DMs. It's the only way to function efficiently as a remote team.
- Choose to act, and dare to fail: We encourage our team to act decisively, make mistakes, and learn from them. Every mistake is an opportunity to learn, but every moment wasted hesitating is an opportunity lost.
- Focus on the marathon, ease off on the sprint: Burnout is real, painful, and expensive. We nip it in the bud by offering flexible work schedules and 40 hour work weeks.
- We are a work in progress: Every product we roll out can be made even better. Our best talent can grow even further. We believe that everyone and everything is always a work in progress, and we invest heavily in tools and courses that can help us grow.
- We make our differences count: At Proximity, we go out of our way to hire exceptional talent from different places, people with different backgrounds, ideas, approaches and opinions. We are designers, programmers, tinkerers, writers, bikers, runners, divers, chefs, brewers, musicians, hikers, travellers, volunteers, parents and hard workers. Our differences are powerful they help us remember that there is no single right way of thinking and help us stay curious and humble.
