Job Notice – Senior Web Developer

Job Summary

This new position will involve both development and overall strategy in building a new SAAS platform in the workplace learning field. Using lean-startup practices, and working with a learning expert, the position will work with one other developer in building a working prototype, testing successive improvements, and maintaining and innovating the product over time.

Ideal Candidate

This position is ideal for someone who:

• Wants to build something from scratch in a start-up environment.
• Has both frontend and backend skills (particularly data architecture skills).
• Wants to learn the business side of starting a tech business by experiencing it.
• Wants to be on the ground floor in building a great, diverse, innovative, and work-life-balanced workplace.
• Wants to build a tool that will help learning professionals build more effective learning interventions.
• Who excels in working, communicating, and engaging with others.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Selecting tools, languages, frameworks, databases
• Building a minimally-viable product
• Using split-half and cohort testing to improve product
• Working with learning expert and his wireframed use cases
• Working with customers
• Recommending resources (for example, graphic design, UX design help, development tools, etc.)
• Working with ownership to inform business strategy on this product

Qualifications and Skills

• Experience with a wide variety of frontend and backend web-development tools.
• Experience building web-based SAAS platforms (extremely helpful, but not necessary).
• Experience working strategically, approaching the work from a business perspective.
• Experience working with customers or demonstrated ability to do so.
• Ability to develop in a small team of two people (at least at first), with outside expertise utilized at critical points.
• Ability to work virtually (at least at first). We’ll get office once product has market success.
• Looking for a job that means more than just having a job.

Benefits and Salary

• Benefits and salary to be negotiated.
• You will be our second hire, so we don’t yet have plans in place, but we will get you what you need.

 

Learn More about Work-Learning Research, Inc., and Will Thalheimer, President.

• Work-Learning Research, Inc.
• Will’s Book (Source of IP for SAAS product)