Senior Software Engineer, Web

🎯 What We Do:

VSCO is a mobile app that helps you create beautiful, professional-looking photos and videos right from your mobile phone. We offer extensive high-end photo and video editing features, including 200+ presets, and access to a vibrant global community that inspires people to create and to share their diverse experiences with one another. Across all products and services, VSCO’s mission is to help everybody fall in love with their own creativity.

💼 Job Description:

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the VSCO Platform & Web team, in this role you will contribute to a range of high-impact projects, including the development of the next iteration of the VSCO web experience.

You are passionate about front-end development, have experience with server engineering, databases, and integrations with third party platforms. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with a collaborative, distributed team, where your point of view will be valued. When we win, we win together.

🤝 Reports To:

Brent Cromley, The Vice President of Engineering

💥 What We Need Your Help With:

• Write, review and maintain code primarily in JavaScript and Go
• Create responsive and accessible web front-ends with a mobile-first mindset
• Collaborate with Designers, Product Managers, and other Engineers to implement intuitive user experiences
• Help define strategic outcomes and lead projects that will drive value for our platform stakeholders, and help us meet business objectives
• Contribute to our development process, and tooling
• Contribute to our back-end services and distributed systems as needed

🔍 What We Look For:

• 5+ years experience in a full time Engineering role
• Deep command of technology: JavaScript, ES6/7, CSS, HTML
• Experience building responsive front-ends for the web
• Experience writing back-end code for APIs and distributed services
• Experience with a modern JavaScript framework, especially React
• Familiarity with agile or lean methodologies

💫 Nice to Have:

• Ability to think of business concerns beyond engineering, and experience working with multi-functional teams
• Passion for design and strong desire to contribute to a distributed team
• Experience with data-stores such as MongoDB, MySQL, DynamoDB, etc.
• Comfortable with programming languages like Go, PHP, NodeJS, Ruby, Python
• A passion for building and supporting positive, inclusive and safe online spaces

🦄 Some Perks and Benefits We Offer:

Equity, health, vision, dental insurance for families, flexible vacation policy, Creative Fridays, and a quarterly “Hack Week” to foster engineering ingenuity!

Creative Freedom

We value the creative process and our employees’ opinions — input is encouraged, regardless of your position or title. We want to work with people who are driven and demonstrate initiative in taking our mission to the next level.

The Working Life

At VSCO, everyone works hard but also takes the time to enjoy life outside of the office. Balance is important to us. It Won’t Be Boring Try new things. Think outside the box. We celebrate an environment that fights stagnation and challenges the status quo.