Nicer is hiring a junior developer

We’re looking for a junior developer to join our team and work on some of our most valuable projects and partnerships.

About Nicer and your role:

We’re a small, fast-moving team of designers and developers. Our team partners with early stage companies to design and build digital products. We also launch our own products like SimplePerks and Smallchat. We're a remote team, but our HQ is Atlas Local in beautiful Greenville, SC.

Some stuff we’ve worked on recently:

• Using Stripe Issuing to build a remote employee benefits app called SimplePerks.
• Using MongoDB Realm to build a GraphQL API with autogenerated types for a React PM tool.
• Using Stream to build a notification feed for Really Good Emails’ NextJS webapp.
• Using Firestore and Algolia to build feeds for Flaire’s React Native app.
• Building a GraphQL API for Earnnest’s React Native app.
• Using React Native for Web to share state management and UI components across web/iOS/Android for a multiplatform app.
• Using AWS Lambda and the Slack API to build Smallchat, a Slack web chat app.

We’re looking for:

• A React dev with strong knowledge of web fundamentals: HTML/CSS, responsive web dev.
• A natural learner who loves diving into new platforms and frameworks.
• A good communicator who’s comfortable advocating internally for your own ideas.

Not required, but bonus points for experience with tech stuff we use frequently:

• React Native, specifically in combination with Expo.
• JAM stack
• Firebase
• GraphQL

Every week you’ll be:

• Designing and building new features for React and React Native apps.
• Working with the rest of our team to determine priorities for projects and managing your own schedule.
• Learning new platforms and frameworks.

Pay & Benefits

This position’s base salary range is $50k. We offer fully paid parental leave. We have flexible work hours and generous paid time-off. We subsidize coworking or home office expenses. Additionally, we cover 100% of your medical, dental, and vision insurance premium, as well as covering 50% of costs for your spouse and depenents.

Apply

Send us a quick email to [email protected]:

• Link to your Github, LinkedIn and anything else great you’d like us to see.
• Tell us a little bit about what you’re looking for in your next role.
• We’ll give you our full attention, and you’ll get a real reply from one of us.

Short intro call with our CEO.

• We’ll schedule an informal 30-minute call with our CEO, Aeryk.
• Chat about your background, career goals, our team, and any initial questions or concerns you have.

Interview with our devs.

• We’ll schedule a longer tech interview with our devs: Jay, Robert, and Maks.
• We’ll chat about your experience and what you’re looking for in your next team.
• We’ll talk more about the work we do, the role we’re looking to fill, and any questions you have.
• Bring some React code you worked on, and let’s geek out together about something cool you’ve built!
• Ideally you’d have a dev environment set up, so we could write a little bit of code together, maybe brainstorming a small addition to your project.

Work on a small project with us.

• If possible, we’ll pay you to work on a small project with us. We’ll be flexible and find a format that works for you. Jump in our Slack team and see what working with us is like.

Join the team!

If this seems like a great fit we’ll send you a formal offer letter, talk through any details, and start making amazing apps together!