Principal Engineer @ Big Human in Big Human

The Company

We’re Big Human, a digital product studio that’s been solving complex problems since 2010. We’re part client-services, part internal lab. We create beautiful online experiences, as well as incubate our own ideas. We’ve built, launched, and sold our own products, which gives us valuable insights into creating leading-edge tech for our clients. 

Requirements:

• Strong communication skills; must be extremely proficient in English 
• Highly sensitive to client needs and strong emotional intelligence 
• Willingness to jump into any project to solve difficult problems
• Understand the human implications of the products we build
  
• Interface with clients as technology domain expert
• Extensive knowledge of React
• Experience architecting RESTful and GraphQL-based APIs using Node and Express
• Experience working with AWS or other Cloud services
• Experience writing tests with tools such as Mocha, Chai, and Jest
• Experience with Continuous Delivery / Continuous Integration pipelines
• Ability to write modern JavaScript using TypeScript, with support for ES7+ features (Babel)
• Advocate for and execute beautiful, pixel-perfect responsive design.
• Experience with React and/or React Native.
• Familiarity with Node, Express, GraphQL, or other web technologies.
• Knowledge of relational databases like MySQL.

The Company

We’re Big Human, a digital product studio that’s been solving complex problems since 2010. We’re part client-services, part internal lab. We create beautiful online experiences, as well as incubate our own ideas. We’ve built, launched, and sold our own products, which gives us valuable insights into creating leading-edge tech for our clients. 

,[We’re seeking a passionate Principal Engineer to join the Big Human team in making world-class web applications and mobile apps. As the right person for the job, you will have at least 7 years relevant industry experience and boast an impressive knowledge of both server-side and client-side technologies. Ideally this includes Node/Express, GraphQL, MongoDB, MySQL, AWS, React, and React Native, but we value good coding fundamentals and solid understanding of web technologies above shiny new technology. You should also be comfortable handling the implementation of large-scale, end-to-end projects in a small team. Most importantly, you should enjoy tackling technical challenges across a diverse range of projects and strive to do so while writing clean, maintainable code. ]

Requirements: iOS, Script, Mocha, Continuous integration, JavaScript, React, React, React Native, Node.js, Express, GraphQL, Web technologies, Relational database, MySQL