Posted almost 6 years ago

Full-Stack Web Developer at Stack Overflow Anywhere (In-Office or Remote with time zone in UTC-8:00 to UTC+3:00) Salary: $100,000 – $140,000 At Stack Overflow, our mission is to serve developers. Whether we’re helping developers get answers to their questions or find new jobs, we build products that affect millions of developers’ lives every day. Our goal is to create a community and a company where everyone feels welcome to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. We’re not there yet, which is why we’re hoping you’ll join us! As a full-stack web developer, you’ll join a cross-disciplinary team of developers, designers, and product managers working within a specific product area. Some recent projects we’ve been working on: Our newest products, Stack Overflow for Teams and for Enterprise, which give organizations a private, secure home for their team’s questions and answers. New experiments on Stack Overflow Talent and Engagement to help companies reach and engage developers with job and advertising opportunities. Improving our search algorithms to help developers find the answers they need across both public and private Stack Overflow Q&A. Modifying the Ask Question page and comments in order to make Stack Overflow easier to use and more welcoming to newcomers. You’ll work primarily in our main tech stack of C#, ASP.NET, and Microsoft SQL Server, with supporting technologies like Redis, TypeScript, and Elasticsearch. We don’t expect you to know everything coming in, so we’ll pair you with mentors who will help you learn and develop. We’re a remote-first team, so you’ll have the option to work from home or out of our New York office. Wherever you work, you’ll be part of a remote work culture that emphasizes online communication (Trello, Slack, GitHub, Hangouts) and asynchronous collaboration wherever possible. Skills & Requirements We expect to see: Solid programming skills in your language of choice (not necessarily ours) and a track record of getting stuff done. 3+ years full-stack web dev experience with any major server-side stack, relational database, and modern front-end (JS, HTML, CSS). Experience in our stack is a plus, but not a requirement. Self-motivating, self-directing and a great communicator. We like to see (but not required): Experience working remotely and/or working with teams that are distributed geographically. Experience shipping features in a fast-moving, cross-disciplinary team (Product Managers, Designers, UX Researchers, Product Marketing, etc). An active Stack Overflow profile, open source code, example projects that you’re proud of, or any other evidence of your passion for building great software. Knowledge of how Stack Overflow works from our blog and podcasts. What we value: Servant Leadership: We lead by empowering and inspiring people to do their best work, not by micromanaging. We hire smart people, set them up for success, then get out of their way. Collaboration: The best products are created when people from different backgrounds and disciplines work closely together in an environment of respect and trust. Transparency: Trust is built on openness and transparency. If there is not a good reason to keep it a secret, we share it. For example, we share our complete engineering salary formula. Inclusion: We do our best work when we can be our whole selves at work. We’re committed to policies and benefits that support people, and leaders who foster an open and inclusive culture. When you apply Please include an up-to-date resume. We also strongly encourage you to include a cover letter explaining why you’re interested in working at Stack Overflow. What you’ll get in return: Flexible hours 20 days paid vacation + holidays Completely free health insurance – no copay, no premiums (US residents) Generous parental leave (10-16 weeks at 100% pay), family care leave, and unlimited sick days Employees will never be poked with a sharp stick If you want to work remotely. We’ll help you set up a great home office, with an ergonomic chair, standing desk, and any other equipment you need to do your job. If you want to work in our office. You’ll get your own private office in our headquarters in New York City, and enjoy additional benefits like free lunch every day prepared by our own in-house chefs, transportation reimbursement, and all the espresso you can drink. About Stack Overflow Stack Overflow is the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. More than 50 million professional and aspiring programmers visit Stack Overflow each month to help solve coding problems, develop new skills, and find job opportunities. We partner with businesses to help them understand, hire, engage, and enable the world’s developers. Our products and services are focused on developer marketing, technical recruiting, market research, and enterprise knowledge sharing. We believe in hiring smart people and getting out of their way. We have an office in New York with some of the best amenities of any New York startup, and we have people who work remotely all over the world. We keep meetings and ceremony to an absolute minimum. Diverse teams build better products. Legally, we need you to know this:  Stack Exchange, Inc. does not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class. We support workplace diversity. But we want to add this: We strongly believe that diversity contributes to a broader collective perspective that will consistently lead to a better company and better products. We are working hard to increase the diversity of our team wherever we can and we actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of it.