Client description

Our client develops an app that facilitates the daily life of construction professionals: architects, builders.The World goal: promote responsible and ecologically sustainable constructions this is why he is looking for aLead Back-End Developer.

Job Description

Note:This job offer is in English but off course it’s open to French people.

Quick intro:

The app is revolutionary, it helps construction professionals to manage their projects inreal-time: architects, builders, building owners.

What is problematic?

The industry isnot well digitalized, and people waste hundreds of hours per month and can’t focus well on their mission. Many clients references as Eiffage and famous SMEs of the industry. Our client just had a funding round and plan to develop the business in Europe at the end of 2020.

Technically, how he does that?

Thanks to a web, mobile and desktop app built withReactJS,NodeJS,Electron,MongoDB,Docker,AWS(+ with a lot of documentation & tests).

Core mission

Promote responsible and ecological constructions while removing tensions and omnipresence of administrative work for construction professionals (big subject, today people from the industry are not focused on the heart of their values and work).

Why you’d like to join our client’s team

Advantages of being aLead Back-End Developerfor our client:

• They will be a small team in June (10 people, 5 developers),workinghard,playinghard. 10 more people will join our clientat the end of the year.

• Theylovelearningfrom others and surround themselves with multidisciplinary people. They also allow people to make periodic freelances missions for outside projects to gain more skills.

• They have abig networkof CTOs of the biggest European startups. They like to learn about their best practices.

• They cangive you a laptop and a comfy apartment in Parisin 2 weeks for a cheap price, 10 minutes away from your work.

• They havemany perks for their team(sports, hobbies, formations)

• They arebig enthusiastsabout the impact of the architecture, urbanism and construction industry in the world (ecologically, socially, economically) and how the digital industry can help the professionals to have a much better role in it.

Your mission as a Lead Back-End Developer:

Starting in April / May / June 2020:

• Enhancethe NodeJS back-end features of the app and structure the first back-end team. If you like simple DevOps, they have many tasks in this field too.

List of future challenges:

• Managea junior back-end developer

• Includea real-time chat with advanced features

• Translatethe app in many languages

• Migrateto TypeScript (or another JS typing tool)

• Addsmarter transactional emails service

• Synchronizethe app with external APIs, set a viable long-term architecture for this

• Allowthe users to synchronize the app data with external Cloud platforms (Google Drive, Dropbox, office 365) and databases

Preferred Experience

Mindset

• You have alot of ambitions in tech and you’d like to find a good company to catalyze this ambition(real ambition, not just having good teammates & learning edge libraries).

• Autonomous,rigorous,comfywith complex architectures, preferring simple micro-services instead of re-inventing the wheel

• Strongwill to push a company from early-stage to world development.

Tech

• You are very comfy withNodeJS/MongoDB/APIs. You master deep details of thelanguage/libraries(without being an absolute expert).

The +:

• 3+ years working for startups

• DevOpsandCI knowledge(AWS, Netlify, Linux, Serverless)

• Sensibilityfor architecture and construction