General Interest Form - Future Back-end Product Developer (in Clojure) at Whimsical | Torre

General Interest Form - Future Back-end Product Developer (in Clojure)

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Full-time
Compensation
USD118k - 184k/year
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Remote (anywhere)
Posted about 3 years ago

Responsibilities


Whimsical was founded in 2017 by Kaspars Dancis and Steve Schoeffel to help teams be more effective in the distributed and fully digital work environment. Whimsical's product is expressive, fast, and delightful. We believe that software should spark joy, not dread. We are a remote-first company and big proponents of remote work because it democratizes the opportunities for people everywhere. Our operating philosophy is based on set of core principles, such as: Sustainability, Craftsmanship, Long-term focus, Partnership Mindset. Whimsical is a growing company and we’re always open to chat with experienced Back-end Product Developers wanting to build a great product using Clojure. We’re looking for people with passion for analyzing problems and crafting solutions together with other teams in the company. As a Product Developer at Whimsical you will be helping to shape both the visual presentation and user experience at Whimsical by working on our collaboration tools. You’ll be responsible for continually delighting our users with best-in-class thinking tools. Responsibilities: - Helping to shape both the visual presentation and user experience at Whimsical by working on our collaboration tools - Building tools that help others seamlessly collaborate and think together - Using Clojure and functional programming in general to solve non-trivial problems - Running systems in the cloud - Running production workloads in containers - Measuring, analyzing, and fixing performance problems - Working autonomously and staying self-motivated - Contributing to all things server and infrastructure based, be it backend code, database optimizations, managing infrastructure, or ensuring that our servers are alive and healthy - Contributing to Front-end and other areas of the product