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Engineer

Upstatement

Engineer

Boston, MA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    THE ROLE

    Join us at the forefront of sophisticated architecture, tool creation, process definition, and team communication. We're looking for a driven engineer with well-rounded experience to lead the creation of remarkable digital products. 

    RESEARCH AND SOLUTION ARCHITECTURE: Engineers participate in web projects from day one: sitting in on stakeholder interviews, checking out existing codebases, and getting to know the client's tech team. Once we have a handle on the problem space we evaluate possible technology solutions. We're not dogmatic about any particular framework; no two clients or projects are the same, and no one technology can solve all problems effectively. 

    COLLABORATION: Engineers work as part of small multi-disciplinary teams. Designers, producers, and developers work together every day of the project from strategy presentations through to final browser bug fixing. We kick off each day with a daily standup and check in frequently via Slack, Trello, and Github. We also keep up lightweight communication via Slack with clients—engineers at Upstatement are client-facing, so you won't be playing telephone with account managers. 

    CRAFTING CODE: We're committed to writing modern, performant, maintainable code. This means staying abreast of best practices, reviewing each other's PR's, and writing unit and acceptance tests when necessary. The bulk of our code tends to be PHP and JavaScript, but we're not married to those languages or any associated tooling. Technologies we've deployed into production in the past year include WordPress, Craft CMS, Contentful, Prismic, Magento, React, Vue, Gatsby, and Elasticsearch. 

    LEADERSHIP: As Lead Engineer, you'll mentor younger team members and guide them on projects towards becoming amazing leaders in their own right. You'll also have the opportunity to contribute to long-term internal projects and define best practices across the department (in the past two months we've had company-wide shares on GDPR, git-iquette, performance testing, and SEO). 

    About You

    • Professional experience in a similar role 
    • Fluency with one or more server-side languages 
    • Dominant framework/CMS familiarity 
    • Modern client-side skills
    • Intimate knowledge of web performance and security
    • Working knowledge of common testing tools and methodologies
    • Familiarity with accessibility standards and best practices
    • Communicative, thoughtful, optimistic, and collaborative

     

    Bonus Points

    • Working familiarity with Scrum/Agile methodologies
    • Data visualization skills
    • Native app development
    • DevOps experience (Docker, AWS, etc.)

    THE COMPANY

    Upstatement is an unusual place. Started in Boston in 2008 by three newspaper geeks, we're a creative studio that designs and builds bespoke digital experiences for clients who care about high-quality work and personalized service. Much of our work tends to have an editorial focus: we've built award-winning websites for clients including MIT, Harvard, Tito's Vodka, Christopher Kimball's Milk Street, PGA Tour, Yale, Bloomberg, Penguin Random House, and PBS NewsHour.

    Our strength is in our people and our process—we believe that strategy, design, and tech are all connected, and the way we work reflects that. Designers write code, producers are fluent in InDesign, and engineers participate in strategy workshops. We pride ourselves on being a profitable company, running a lean team, maintaining a horizontal management structure, and setting up each person for success and growth. Trash talk, gossip, and office politics are noticeably lacking from our culture. We invest heavily in finding talented, thoughtful people; those that come here tend to stay.

    When asked, we just tell our moms “I make awesome stuff for the web and your phone with fellow weirdos that genuinely give a damn.”

    If you happen to be in the area, come visit us!

    We provide perks + benefits that matter most to you, including: 

    • Competitive salaries
    • Health, dental, and vision insurance
    • A company-matched retirement plan
    • Transportation subsidies
    • Healthy (and non-healthy!) snacks 
    • Free “First Friday” lunches
    • Skill + personal development talks, workshops, & seminars
    • A generous, flexible vacation policy
    • Company-wide closure between Christmas & New Year's Day (paid!)
    • A gorgeously-designed office in a historic building near North Station, opposite TD Garden
    • A yearly professional development stipend

    What people here love best

    • “No assholes! Good clients. And free snacks!”
    • “The care that's put into making the office so enjoyable.”
    • “I love the passion every employee has for their trade.”
    • “The fact that we're tech agnostic, which means our work options are only limited by what proposals we can win.”
    • “That every employee's opinion is heard + important.”
    • “This is the LEAST corporate of any job I've ever had in the past twenty years.”
    • “No day is the same. I get to experience many different roles and many different projects. I love being able to learn from each of them and bring new perspective to the next”
    • “I LOVE my job!!!”
    • “It's a pleasure to work with each and every person here.”
    • “I have amazing mentors that challenge me every day and help me be a better designer and a better person!”
    • “I came to Upstatement because it's one of the few digital design and engineering studios in Boston that actually produces quality work.”
    • “Making work for organizations that have a mission beyond just ‘selling stuff'.”
    • “I almost cried when I got the job offer, I was so happy!”