Full Stack Engineer

We’re currently hiring full stack engineers to join our core team. Join us to work on interesting challenges, use best-of-breed technologies, impact millions of developers, and be a part of our success.

We’re looking for self-starters who are passionate about developer tools, and have a good understanding of how to balance execution speed with maintainability.

You’ll work directly with the CEO, influence the product and the roadmap, and build a product that helps millions of developers make better open-source choices.

What you will be doing:

• Develop and own different product facets and features of Openbase from our PostgreSQL DB, to GraphQL APIs, to our React-based frontend - from creation, to deployment, to measurement
• Work with, extend and optimize a huge PostgreSQL database containing billions of data points about millions of open source packages, including information, versions and community knowledge
• Develop performant GraphQL APIs with Postgraphile, Node and Express alongside sophisticated database queries
• Build the frontend for some Openbase pages, components and features with TypeScript, React, GraphQL, styled-components and advanced CSS
• Built high-performance and resilient data collectors for package data - from multiple package registries and data sources, including GraphQL and REST APIs, source code analysis and more

Ideally, you should have:

• Significant experience with modern backend and frontend development (preferably React and Node.js, which we use)
• Experience writing SQL with large data sets (we use Postgres)
• Experience building and working with APIs to create snappy and interactive apps (we use GraphQL and Apollo)
• Ability to implement complex designs with advanced CSS

Bonus:

• Familiarity with strongly-typed languages (we use TypeScript)
• Experience with modern web infrastructure (we use AWS and Netlify)
• Some experience with Python, Java or Go