Backend Developer, Hallow

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SQL

AWS

TypeScript

JavaScript

MySQL

Mid and Senior level

Chicago

Remote from Canada, Europe, UK, US

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Catholic prayer & meditation app

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Catholic prayer & meditation app

201-500 employees

B2CSaaSSocial ImpactWellbeing

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

SQL

AWS

TypeScript

JavaScript

MySQL

Mid and Senior level

Chicago

Remote from Canada, Europe, UK, US

More information about location

201-500 employees

B2CSaaSSocial ImpactWellbeing

Company mission

To help the world find peace and purpose through prayer and meditation, and to help us all build deeper and more meaningful relationships with God.

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Company

Role

Who you are

Passion: First and foremost, we’re looking for someone excited and passionate about our mission. It makes it a lot more fun to actually care about what you’re working on!
Experience: A foundation of 4+ years of experience in Javascript or TypeScript (primarily NodeJS)
Experience building APIs and working with Web-sockets; experience working with AWS, deploying to the cloud, and server management
4+ years working on backend systems specifically; experience building scalable, resilient and secure applications; knowledge of application architecture and design; experience with SQL, specifically MySQL
Grit & Detail-Oriented: We really care about what we’re doing & try to build as fast as we can. Since we’re guided meditation and competing with some large players in the market (Calm, Headspace), we have to stand out. Everything we do, say, send, or spend money on should be top-notch quality and set Hallow apart as the best

What the job involves

We are scaling up our dev team quickly and looking for someone to help us grow and expand our back-end
Build out the product functionality: Craft scalable and fast APIs for our mobile apps, build out tools to process media and schedule content and create recommendation algorithms to engage users with content specific to them
Plan & Launch: Collaborate in a small agile product pod to bring tasks from ideation, through implementation and testing all the way to deployment, owning the whole process along the way
Craft tooling and flows: Build internal tooling to help our teams manage & create new types of content, process & distribute audio, and simplify editing workflows
Build out our infrastructure & data: Architect the best ways to store and process data at scale, help expand our current infrastructure globally, keep latency low, fine-tune automated testing, logging, and monitoring

Our take

Bringing the mechanics of wellness and meditation apps into the religious market, Hallow is a Roman Catholic prayer app that offers guided prayers, prayer routine management, and social media tools for followers of the Roman Catholic faith.

Though its market is limited to Roman Catholics specifically, Hallow has set itself up as a public benefit corporation, a savvy move that will help it keep afloat whilst growing its audience. With both startup and faith-based advisors helping its founders navigate a complex market position, Hallow has seen staggering funding awarded since its 2018 launch, helping it to expand its services and features.

Hallow’s celebrity-guided prayers have included a number of controversial figures, but this hasn’t stopped the company from appearing in the top 10 most downloaded apps on the App Store. Moving forward, it continues to navigate combing its Catholic niche with its growing place in mainstream culture.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

29% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.7)

Company

Company HQ

Chicago Loop, Chicago, IL

Leadership

Eric Kerekes

(Co-Founder & CTO)

Previously a Consultant at McKinsey & Company, worked in Research in the Department of Computer Science at University of Oxford, and was a Program Development Intern at Hovde Foundation.

Alessandro Dissanto

(Co-Founder)

Currently Founding Member of The 81 Collection, and Member of the Board of Advisors at Routora. Previously a Private Equity Associate at GTCR and Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman Sachs.

Alex Jones

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Board Member at Montana de Luz. Previously an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, Technology Consultant at PwC and Mechanical Engineering Intern at Mettler-Toledo International.

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