Senior Full Stack Developer

Posted 11 days ago

At Sanctuary Computer — we’re building a different type of technology shop. Based in NYC’s Chinatown (and remote), the way we approach building things is more like a restaurant than a traditional agency, with an emphasis in providing our clients with an outspoken sense of comfort and hospitality.

We work in design, branding and engineering roles, with clients like Nike, General Electric, The Nobel Prize, Herman Miller, Adobe, Dig Inn and many others. That same thoughtfulness is applied inward, too. We understand that technologists & engineers have a strong sense of art and integrity, and are happier being a part of a team that promotes those values.

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**We are inviting Full Stack Developer Contractors to join the garden3d creative collective**

🌎 About garden3d

Sanctuary Computer is a member of the garden3d collective. We are worker-owned, innovating on everything from brands and IRL communities to IoT devices and cross platform apps. We share profit, open source everything, spin out new businesses, and invest in exciting ideas through financial and/or in-kind contributions.

Our client roster includes Google, Stripe, Figma, Hinge, Black Socialists in America, ACLU, Pratt, Parsons, Mozilla, The Nobel Prize, MIT, Gnosis, Etsy & Gagosian. We’re the software team behind innovative products like The Light Phone & Mill, and we a global, decentralized community space collective called Index Space.

We think of our garden3d as collective for creative people, prioritizing a happy, talented, and diverse studio culture. We work on projects that bring value to our world, and we balance deep care for the work we do with a genuine curiosity about life outside of our jobs.

🌎 About the garden3d Creative Network:

The garden3d creative network is a big collective of creative freelancers, tightly aligned but loosely coupled. We share work, opportunities, inspiration together. As we hear about new roles, we share and discuss them, and staff them from our network.

To be considered for future roles, you can join the network here, or learn more here.

🔮 Who we’re looking for:

Right now, we’re looking for Senior Full Stack Developer with expertise in web, backend and/or native app development, and interest in systems architecture and IoT.

In this role, you’ll work on a variety of client projects to find cost-effective, high-quality, pragmatic solutions to complex problems. You would work on full-stack apps across many industries, from e-commerce to connected hardware products. Responsibilities will include:

Crafting technical architecture plans through interfacing with clients to understand product requirements
Developing and optimizing technical solutions while keeping in mind performance, scalability, maintainability, and cost-effectiveness
Participating in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to teammates and ensuring adherence to best practices
Contributing to project success by keeping a close eye on team velocity, project scope, budget, and timeline
Negotiating with clients to align project scope with budget and timeline, if needed

The person we’re looking for is happy, relaxed and easy to get along with. They’re flexible on anything except conceits that will lower their usually outstanding work quality. They work “smart”, by carefully managing their workflow and staggering features that have dependencies intelligently — they prefer deep work but are OK coming up to the surface now and then for top level / strategic conversations.

We believe people with backgrounds or interests in design, art, music, food or fashion tend to have a well rounded sense of design & quality — so a variety of hobbies or side projects is a big nice to have!

🔑 Must Have Competencies:

6 — 8+ years experience in backend (Ruby on Rails, Elixir Phoenix, Python Django, or Node Express) and/or native app development (React Native, Flutter, Android, AOSP, Kotlin/Java).
Comfort with building performant and polished frontend applications (React, CSS, Accessibility, etc)
Extensive experience with API Design and knowledge of REST and GraphQL, as well as authentication strategies with JWTs and OAuth 2.0.
Fluency in SQL & database operations, and extensive experience with one of PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL or SQLite.
Fluency in HTTP, Caching, Status Codes, Security Standards and other Web protocols & patterns.
Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure and a core understanding of best practices such as IAM & credential management.
Production experience with PaaS providers such as Heroku, Render, Cloud66, Vercel, Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, Docker, or Gigalixir.

💪 Nice to Have Competencies:

We’re always pitching for new and exciting technology niches. Some of the areas below are relevant to us!

Client-facing experience, working directly with customers to gather requirements and provide technical solutions.
Product management experience, including defining product roadmaps and working closely with stakeholders.
Hands-on experience with Zenhub, Trello, Jira or similar.
Engineering management experience, including leading teams, setting technical direction, and mentoring developers.
Experience in Hardware, Firmware, or Internet of Things (IoT).
Native IDEs (Xcode, Android Studio), Languages & Low Level experience (Swift, Rust, C & C++, Clang & LLVM), Electron, V8 & NAN.

💸 Compensation

Our pay scale ranges from $80 p/hr to $150 p/hr pending seniority, and our projects are rarely less than 8 full time weeks at 40 hours per week. Additionally, we pay discretionary bonuses for going over and above — like training & coaching others, winning new business, speaking at conferences, etc.

We prefer long standing relationships with highly accountable and communicative team members, so we encourage candidates to expect longer term engagements. A senior engineer working 40 weeks per year may take home $150k — $200k USD.

👩‍🏭 How we work:

We believe that there’s a better balance between the poles of freelancing & full time, and for that reason Sanctuary works differently to most shops:

Transparency & Ownership: We release out Profit & Loss statements to the community each year, open source our best ideas, and talk business & money with everyone in the company. We’re proud to run our business with integrity, and for that reason we share everything with our team & community.
150% Carbon Negative: Our studio offsets 150% of the carbon we use to do business each year, dated back to our founding in 2015. We turn down work that is not in-line with our morals, and we encourage our peers to do the same. We were certified climate neutral earlier this year.
Strong Morals: Since our founding, we've turned down somewhere between $1mm - $2mm of work that didn't meet our moral standards. (Most of that was DTC brands that can't show a valid sustainability initiative).
Async & Decentralized: We use tools optimized for calm, thoughtful communication, and opt for async whenever possible. We fight hard to maintain our focus time.
Remote Friendly: Our company is fluent in remote work, making our workplace more decentralized, and democratized in the process.
Ideas & Products: In our spare studio time, we work to build our own open source or internal products to diversify & bolster our income. We create amazing technology products for our clients, so why not for the studio?

→ Read more on our Substack, over here, or our Medium, over there.

We’re excited to hear from you! ❤

Feel free to apply using the link below or just click the apply button—whatever's easier for you! →The garden3d Creative Network