Web Developer

About Halcyon Labs Halcyon Labs (pronounced cadence) is a fully remote (must live in the USA) software company founded in 2013. In a nutshell, we build tools to help compliance and marketing professionals at financial institutions do their jobs more efficiently. Halcyon Labs has been profitable for several years (we’re fans of making more than we spend). We’re bootstrapped, which means we don’t have investors. So our owners answer to no one. And they aren’t just giving us commands from their vacation homes waiting to cash their next check. They’re fellow team members and in the trenches with us. Why We’re Hiring After our team members, our customers are our most important focus. As our customer base grows, so does our team. We’re dedicated to giving each customer the best experience possible, which means having enough people to take care of all their needs. We’re growing quickly and so are the needs of our customers. That’s why we’re increasing the size of our development team. Who We Want to Hire To be a web developer at Halcyon Labs we prefer you have 5+ years of experience. This experience has given you an understanding of basic database driven web applications and a proficient knowledge of the MVC pattern. You understand that software development is all about the end-user (again, we really care about our customers). You have a desire to continually learn and improve your development skills. We love giving team members opportunities to improve their skills, whether through online courses, workshops, or learning from others. You’re able to adapt quickly to new environments, are organized and focused, can look beyond current constraints (you know, forest through the trees), and can provide solutions to complex problems. Simply put, we need a problem solver, not a taskmaster. Our vision, mission, and core values should resonate with you. That’ll be crucial to your success and happiness if you join the Halcyon Labs team. Let’s Geek Out If you’re geeky like our dev team (hopefully you are), you probably want to know more about our tech-stack. Outside of our dev team, we’re not really sure what most of this means, but we sure hope you do. Technologies/Frameworks Ruby on Rails GraphQL Postgres Redis ReactJS Minitest Cypress DevOps Kubernetes Helm Docker CircleCI Other Tools Jira Rubymine Sentry Logrocket Wooly Bugger Our Vision and Mission Our vision and mission aren’t something we hung on the office wall and forgot about. Seriously, we don’t have an office, let alone a wall to hang them on. But our vision, mission, and core values sit on the desks of each of our team members. And we discuss them regularly in our meetings. Your goals and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) will be developed to ensure you’re working to help us achieve our vision and mission. Our vision and mission are what get us up each morning. They, in addition to our core values, help us make decisions. Vision - Setting the standard for operating a great software company. We’re big fans of author Jim Collins and his best-selling book, Good to Great (bonus points if you’ve read it). While there are lots of good software companies out there, we want to be one of the great ones. The first word of our vision is also significant. To go “high school English class” on you, the present participle “setting” illustrates that we’re not looking to set the standard and then be done, but that the standard is always moving and we’re always chasing it. We continually stop to recognize the awesome things we’ve done and then look for ways to do them even better. Mission - Building the best software for compliance and marketing professionals at financial institutions. As Jim Collins taught in his Hedgehog Concept (told you we think he’s great—pun intended), great companies need to determine what they can be the best at in the world and focus on that. There are so many things we could solve as a software company, but we’ve found what we think we can be the best in the world at and we stick to it every day. Our Core Values Our core values remind us who we are. They also guide us in the decisions we make. They’re listed in order of importance. If we have a question when making a decision about people, for example, we look to the core value above it to make our decision. Integrity - We’re honest with ourselves and others. People - We understand that people are the foundation of Halcyon Labs and we act accordingly. Care - We love what we do and do it consistently and intentionally to the best of our abilities. Remarkability - We provide remarkable experiences to all who come into contact with Halcyon Labs . Growth - We accept yesterday and improve today. What a Day in the Life of a Web Developer Looks Like Your day starts with a development team meeting where you go through announcements, sync up projects, and discuss any potential issues. After the meeting, you put your head down and work on your assigned tickets in Jira. You spend the first part of the day reviewing your notes and prioritizing tasks f