Company Description
Looking for an exciting new project with plenty of room for growth? Have a true passion for the innovative startup environment?
- Ludwig is an Italy-based startup working in the field of Natural Language Processing. We built a sentence search engine for English writing that is used by 3 million unique people per month from 200 countries.
- We founded Ludwig in 2014 and bootstrapped it until reaching profitability.
- There are a lot of new challenges coming in the next years and we need reinforcements!
- We are a small and very cohesive team working remotely with Skype/Trello/Telephone and we meet regularly, once every 45 days, to do team meetings in selected cities.
Job Description
We are searching for an experienced, talented Senior-level Frontend Engineer to join Ludwig's engineering team who will:
- Architect, design and develop web frontend applications (cross-browser, cross-device and cross-platform solutions) according to given requirements
- Evangelize the best frontend practices and support more junior developers
- Create, improve, and refine workflows and processes for delivering quality software on time
How you will do this:
- You'll be part of an agile, multidisciplinary team
- You prioritize your work with the team and its product owner, weighing both the business and technical value of each task
- Write clean and well organized code, respecting code guidelines and good practices, in order to guarantee quality, reliability, scalability and easy maintenance
Qualifications
SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of working in (or leading) teams that rapidly ship high-quality web-based software that solves important problems for large numbers of users. Startup experience is a plus
- 3+ years of relevant experience and a strong track record of working with HTML, CSS, JavaScript ES6, React, CSS-in-JS, Redux, PWA.
- Experience with Chrome Extensions, Electron, SASS, Typescript and iOS is a plus
- Solid command of web technologies and object-oriented design
- Experience with REST-based APIs
- Excellent understanding of Git as version control system and GitFlow as branching model
- Proficiency in both Italian and English
Additional Information
We're based in Palermo, but most of the job will carried out remotely (smart working).
PROCESS
We'd like to read more from you, your experience, and why you believe you're fit for the position we are offering (sending your CV or Resume without a cover letter will result in an exclusion. Recommendation letters are a plus)
Then, we will ask a selected number of developers to arrange a Skype meeting.
You can start working immediately.
WHAT WE OFFER
- Remote Work Opportunities with an ultra flexible working culture
- Full-time contract | We are also open to full-time freelance collaborations
- Competitive salary (Gross annual earnings 30-35k€, depending on seniority) + company benefits
Top Skills
What We Do
MISSION Our Mission is to disrupt linguistic barriers allowing anyone to write correctly in English, saving money, time and mistakes. WHAT IS LUDWIG? Ludwig is the killer solution to improve English writing. It helps you to move your ideas from inspiration to completion by giving you an infrastructure to support your writing. Ludwig is neither a translator nor a proofreader, but a linguistic search engine that exploits the most powerful learning tool of human beings: the capacity to imitate. Differently from traditional search engines, which are specialized in retrieving generic information, our hybrid information retrieval algorithm conjugates adaptive statistic search and semantic techniques. Easy and intuitive to use, Ludwig stimulates learning, improves English writing skills and increases users’ self-confidence. Our name cames from Ludwig Wittgenstein, who inspired us with one quote from the Tractatus: “the limits of my language means the limits of my world”. HOW DOES IT WORK? Whenever you are in doubt on how to write a sentence in English or don’t know how to express yourself, it is enough to search Ludwig for the problematic chunk of sentence that you want to check. As a result, you will get a set of correct sentences for inspiration, check or comparison. Once you have such results to compare with, it is an easy game: 1) to figure out yourself if your problematic chunk of sentence is correct, 2) to understand how that expression should be correctly used in context, 3) to deduce how to reshape your sentence more correctly and to get inspiration. WHO IS IT FOR? Ludwig is thought for anyone who struggles with English writing, regardless of their English skills. Students, professors, startuppers, top managers, and many others share the need to constantly produce English contents for their careers and more in general for their life. Ludwig fits their needs with personalized solutions.
