Web Engineer (Remote, Could be Anywhere)

Palo Alto (Remote)       ·       Full time

Offering a $10k reward for referrals to a web engineer (remote, could be based anywhere).

This would be a fun and key role that would get experience scaling up the key architecture.

If you know anyone, connect them via  jacob@ideaflow.io to claim the reward (could be for yourself, too)

Ideaflow is a notebook that augments your intelligence. Founded by a team from MIT and Oxford, we’ve raised over $10M from top angels and VCs, including First Round Capital,  8VC, Sequoia scouts, and Naval Ravikant.

We’re bringing personal information management tools mainstream, and making them collaborative and lightweight, to empower creative souls to fly.

We see this as a critical step to unlocking the potential of the Web as a medium for collective intelligence and global action. 

Email: jacob@ideaflow.io

The Role:

We are: engineers with an artistic impulse, serial founders, community builders, curators of quotes, hosts of intellectual salons, side project fanatics, lovers of nature and human nature – all united by a desire to scale our ability to help people, and to help the Internet continue to truly serve on the side of the user. We’re looking for a highly experienced Full Stack Engineer to further the mission of Ideaflow in a role that involves autonomy, creative freedom, and leadership. It would be preferred if you are excited about curating all kinds of valuable information for the good of the world, and for your personal improvement.

Responsibilities Include:

• Helping build-out core product offerings, including a low-friction notes app and an ontological editor
• Building something at least as complex, seamless, and high performance as an IDE
• Developing frontend and backend architecture, including API design, database schemas and 3rd party API integration
• Defining technical priorities with the core engineering team
• Participating and contributing to the agile development process
• Keeping abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages

It Would Be Great If You Have:

• A Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science from a top university
• Expert knowledge of general web technologies, in particular Javascript, CSS, and HTML
• 3+ years of full-stack development experience
• Experience with Continuous Integration
• Demonstrated the ability to work well in a team
• Deep technical understanding, yet are also product-oriented
• High levels of social empathy and willingness to stick up for important ideas

You Will Love Working With Us If You:

• Use tools to collect and organize the thoughts and data in your daily life
• Thrive in an open and flexible environment
• Frequently find yourself working on side projects
• Have a passion for innovation and feel at home with the startup lifestyle

We Offer:

• A competitive salary with equity incentives
• Work from home accommodations
• $500/month to promote well being
• Flexible work hours with unlimited PTO
• Comprehensive health, vision and dental benefits for full-time employees (including acupuncture!)
• A problem worth solving