Founding/Principal Engineer (Remote Okay)
The Juggernaut is a new type of media company that uses ambitious journalism to tell diverse stories about South Asia and the diaspora. We're headquartered in New York and backed by great investors including Y Combinator, Precursor Ventures, Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin,The Athletic co-founder Adam Hansmann, and ex-Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan. Business Insider just named us one of the top media companies to watch in 2020. More about us in Axios, NiemanLab, TechCrunch, HBS MBA blog, Poynter, Cheddar, CNBC, and Forbes.The opportunityWe’re looking for a founding/principal engineer to help build, deliver, and iterate on a beautiful, high quality experience for our customers and potential customers. You'll be working closely with the founder to establish an engineering foundation, hire engineer s, shape the product roadmap, and work collaboratively with non-product teams to build and prioritize new features and products. You'll be responsible for end-to-end product development, with a focus on data architecture, conversion, back end, front end design, and more.You will also mentor other engineers and provide thoughtful feedback to help them grow. You'll set best practices and document them, and be a champion for high-quality code. Our tech stackWe use Contentful as our CMS, Stripe as our payments processor, Postgres for our database, and Next.js for our frontend (React). Our iOS app (beta) is in React Native. There are many more components, but you will also have a role in modifying our tech stack as we grow. Some of the problems you'll be solving:• How do we build a 21st century media company across multiple platforms and formats that centers community?• How do we define the product roadmap and build products beyond our core web site and app? • How do we measure what is and isn't working? • How do we pay back some of our tech debt, but also know what tech debt we can get away with, to be tackled later? • How do we improve our customer journey (awareness, engagement, conversion, retention, virality) across web and app? • How do we create a process for continuous improvement and A/B testing? • How do we document our codebase and product decisions to ensure that we have a record of our technical / product playbook and learnings?• How do we hire great product and engineering teammates? Who we're looking for:• You are an experienced software engineer with proficiency in modern web development frameworks• You have strong product instincts• You are exceptional at translating business and product goals into software that just works. • You are comfortable measuring the "ROI" of product decisions and prioritizing tasks based on impact• You have an eye for user-centric design, and can improve UI/UX• You collaborate well with non-technical teams and communicate clearly• You write clean, maintainable, scalable code and develop, test, and iterate quickly• You are eager to grow and help others grow, and know when to bring in help• You can balance perfection with getting things done• You are comfortable with dissent and bring informed opinions to the tableWhat it's like to work atThe Juggernaut (our values):• You are ambitious — Even if you’re a bit shy of your ultimate, ambitious bolthires, you can often push yourself further than you think.• You have taste — You are an expert in your domain and read and practice a lot so you know what great looks like. Even if you can’t articulate exactly why something isn’t working, you can work towards getting there. • You are context- and data-driven — Even if certain solutions worked before, you think about the context and the data you have and how that might prove/disprove your hypothesis. Our customers are always surprising us — so unearth the context (and the data) first. • You are reliable and nail the details when they matter — You get things done when you say you will.And if you can’t, you communicate what’s going on. You also nail the details when they matter — ensuring that our site doesn’t go down, for example — but also are open to experimentation when stakes are lower. • You don't miss the forest for the trees — You keep the big picture in mind as you make decisions. You don't say yes to everything, but know whether you're solving the right problem at the right time. We offer competitive salary + equity, as well as benefits and perks, including health insurance + dental + vision.We startedThe Juggernaut because we were tired of reductive South Asian storylines. If you're someone who wants to redefine what a 21st century media company and community looks like, do reach out. Apply tot his job