Senior Frontend Engineer, Borg
€50-80k
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Building the next generation search engine for the social web
Open for applications
Building the next generation search engine for the social web
1-20 employees
Open for applications
€50-80k
0.0-0.01% Equity
More information about location
1-20 employees
Company mission
To enable people to trust each other at scale.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years experience architecting and implementing complex user flows on web
- JavaScript experience, including concepts like asynchronous programming, closures, types
- Deep Expertise in at least one of the major frontend frameworks such as Next.JS (this is what we use), ReactJS, Angular, Vue, etc
- HTML/CSS experience, including concepts like layout, specificity, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility
- Experience with browser APIs and optimizing front end performance
- Demonstrated ability to take advantage of cloud-native technologies and techniques to build a robust, high availability platform
- A growth mindset, being able to balance long term engineering objectives with the immediate development needs of the company and translate them into engineering initiatives
- Highly collaborative with strong verbal and written communication skills
- You enjoy writing documentation and understand why it's valuable
Desirable
- BS/MS/Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related technical field
- Interest in sociology, anthropology, evolutionary psychology, game theory, or related fields
- Interest in design, user experience, or related fields
- Interested in and deeply familiar with some online cultures, sub-cultures, memes, etc
- You are a power user of some social media platforms and/or a member of some online communities
- Familiarity with Python
What the job involves
- Envision (with the help of product and design colleagues), implement, and validate UIs that aggregate complex, graphical data into comprehensible descriptions of social networks
- Implement the features and user interfaces of Borg products like Hive
- Architect efficient and reusable front-end systems that drive complex web applications
- Collaborate with Product Designers, Product Managers, and Software Engineers to deliver compelling user-facing products
- Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues
- Planning and coordination of data modeling & feature releases
- Mentor junior Frontend Engineers
Application process
- We hire for ability, not credentials. You will notice that this is reflected in our recruiting process. The process is designed to test your ability to solve problems that you will face in the role you are applying for. There won’t be any brain teasers or anything else unrelated to what the job will be
- We invest tens of hours carefully crafting descriptions and the corresponding questions for each role. We spend so much time because we found this to be a good investment. These ads and their corresponding questions have proven to be an excellent filter. Make sure not to skip any questions – they are (by far) the most important part of the application
- If we like your answers, we will schedule the first interview. There are typically three interviews (+/-1) in total. For some roles, you may receive a take-home task that should take about 2-3 hours to complete. After that, we will ask you to work with us on a trial project for a week. We will pay you for this project. The idea is that you get to experience what it is like to work on our team, and we get a chance to experience what it would be like to have you as a colleague. Within that week, we will either make you an offer or let you know this is not a fit
- We keep this process to 2-3 weeks from when we get in touch with you
Our take
PageRank is the algorithm used by Google to determine which pages return the most relevant, important, and high quality results for a given search. Borg Collective is looking to develop something similar, but for people: an algorithm that ranks social media profiles so users know who to trust online.
We can see the progress Borg Collective has made already with Hive, an online tool that users can use to identify Twitter communities using a keyword, and see who among the key profiles involved holds the greatest attention and sway. Hive’s touted as a demo of what’s in the Borg Collective pipeline.
Whilst using algorithms to identify clusters of online communities is nothing new in the research community, it’s a tool that hasn’t really been commercially released. Not only would it serve as a buzzy tonic for the current hot-button topic of the credibility issue on social media, it would also work neatly alongside recent marketing tech efforts to help link up brands with the most valuable online influencers. So it will certainly be interesting to see what's in store for Borg Collective and Hive next.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
17% female employees
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2022
$2.7m
CONVERTIBLE
Dec 2021
$1.3m
CONVERTIBLE
Total funding: $5.6m
Company benefits
- Fully remote
- Mostly asynchronous
- Work from wherever you want
- 27 holidays
- Paid sick days
- Depending on your location and setup, you can join us as a full-time contractor, or we can employ you in your country and take care of benefits, such as health insurance and retirement plans.
Company values
- We are a mission-driven organization
- Working at Borg can give a sense of satisfaction and meaning
- No micromanagement but lots of feedback and coaching
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, Germany
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Leadership
Maciek Laskus
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Borg
- We are a fully remote team and hire worldwide
- Our team members come from and live in America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia
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