We welcome applicants based anywhere in Europe.
About Reedsy
We’re here to give authors the tools and resources they need to create beautiful books. Our marketplace gathers the industry's best publishing professionals — the likes of Neil Gaiman's editor, Nora Roberts' book marketer, and GRRM’s cover designer.
We’ve grown to a community of 5,000,000 authors, and transformed the way people write and publish their book. Want to hop on board and help us get to our next destination? Cool, keep reading!
Responsibilities
You will join and work on our book editing tool. Here's what you'll do:
Work closely with our designers and engineers to design, build, and ship new features from scratch;
Extend the growing feature set of our cutting-edge, collaborative word processor;
Deliver real value to our users by crafting beautiful book templates for their e-readers and for print;
Architect and develop highly scalable web applications;
Evaluate and improve the performance, durability, and security of applications in production;
Take ownership for your tasks and see features through from start to finish;
Help teammates improve when reviewing their work and appreciate feedback when they reciprocate.
Professional experience with NodeJS, VueJS, TypeScript and NoSQL (Redis, MongoDB) databases.
A good understanding of modern HTML and CSS.
Strong test-driven approach to development.
Perfectly fluent in English.
Enjoy working remotely.
Bonus points
Professional experience with building and deploying Single Page Apps.
Knowledge of ShareDB and LaTeX.
Experience with CSS pre-processors, such as SASS or LESS.
Experience building production-grade applications integrating LLMs.
Experience with build-chain and deployment automation tools, such as Webpack and Github Actions.
A good dose of ambition, a willingness to learn, and a great sense of humor.
Work from home;
Paid paternal and maternal leave;
Annual team retreat.
Salary range:
£60k - £110k
Skills Required
- Professional experience with NodeJS, VueJS, TypeScript and NoSQL databases
- Good understanding of modern HTML and CSS
- Strong test-driven approach to development
- Fluent in English
- Enjoy working remotely
What We Do
A friendly place for authors to learn, create and market the best indie books: Reedsy is an award-winning community of over 1,000,000 authors and publishing professionals. Our mission is to help authors create high-quality books by connecting them with the world's best editors, designers, marketers or ghostwriters. Since our launch in 2014 we have been developing a number of resources for authors to learn about writing craft and publishing (blog.reedsy.com) and for professionals to develop their freelance career (blog.reedsy.com/freelancer). In 2019 we launched Reedsy Discovery (reedsy.com/discovery) to give the best indie books the exposure they deserve. Reedsy is a fully remote company with a diverse team of 40, coming from 15 different countries. ⛰ Read about our co-founder Matt spending 3 months living and working from the Alps: https://www.businessinsider.com/i-live-and-work-in-my-car-heres-how-2018-5
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