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Tagboard is a distributed B2B SaaS start-up, growing fast and serving the exciting verticals of news, sports, and entertainment. Our platform enables media producers all over the world to create live and interactive stories, with real-time social content and graphics, to be used across broadcast television and connected screens across events (virtual and in-person), venues, web, and mobile. You have likely seen Tagboard in action a million times and didn’t know it- from hundreds of local news stations to national programming on FOX Sports, CNN, NFL Network, and more- producers all over the world are creating award-winning programming using Tagboard.
At Tagboard, you’ll work with a strong team of smart, driven, and fun people who come to work every day passionate about changing the way stories are told, collaborating in our industries with some of the most passionate and creative storytellers in the world.
Position Summary:
Frontend Engineers are required to work in cross-functional teams alongside Backend Engineers, Graphic Designers, and User Experience Designers to ensure successful development and delivery of new products and features. This requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Your Day to Day Journey at Tagboard will provide adventure, excitement, and at least a number of the following opportunities to make an impact:
- Collaborate in a cross-functional team, where the focus is on the frontend, but some backend, services, and integrations work should be expected.
- Partner with product owners to develop a deep understanding of stakeholder’s business problems, and translate product designs into architectural and technical decisions.
- Deliver responsive, low-latency, testable, and maintainable code, while taking operational responsibility for the products and features that you develop.
- Work closely with product owners to define, capture, and monitor product-specific success metrics critical to tracking customer fit and satisfaction.
To succeed, you will likely need these qualifications:
- You have strong proficiency with modern Node.js/JavaScript/CSS/HTML coding, testing, and debugging.
- You are proficient in any of the modern front-end frameworks (Vue, React, Angular). We rely primarily on some of the following: Vue, SASS/SCSS, REST APIs, CSS animations, and building scalable and reusable component-based UIs.
- You have experience using build tools such as Browserify, Grunt, Gulp, NPM, GIT, Webpack, etc.
- You have used JIRA, Github, Trello, or another system to track, and report out progress on feature work.
- Care about web technologies, user experience, and design.
- Ability to organize and structure the code base with experience developing modular and maintainable applications.
- Strong problem-solver, you must be able to put forward multiple design options and iterate to find the most elegant solution
- You are comfortable working in an agile environment and can challenge yourself and your team to improve their ways of working
- You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, and can communicate your ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Proud about what you do, and have a high interest in keeping up with current best practices in your areas of expertise.
- Energetic willingness to roll-up-your-sleeves and do whatever it takes
- Excellent attention to detail, highly entrepreneurial, creative, open-minded, persistent, and highly collaborative
- Deals well with constant change and high levels of ambiguity (we are a startup)
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Tagboard is a distributed B2B SaaS start-up, growing fast and serving the exciting verticals of news, sports, and entertainment. Our platform enables media producers all over the world to create live and interactive stories, with real-time social content and graphics, to be used across broadcast television and connected screens across events (virtual and in-person), venues, web, and mobile. You have likely seen Tagboard in action a million times and didn’t know it- from hundreds of local news stations to national programming on FOX Sports, CNN, NFL Network, and more- producers all over the world are creating award-winning programming using Tagboard.
At Tagboard, you’ll work with a strong team of smart, driven, and fun people who come to work every day passionate about changing the way stories are told, collaborating in our industries with some of the most passionate and creative storytellers in the world.
Position Summary:
This role is an opportunity to work across all aspects of the stack -- from building features, data analysis, upgrading infrastructure, and advising clients on implementation. We are looking for someone who is excited to work at a small and growing startup. You will work directly with the CTO, product team, and other backend engineers to help define the product, prioritize features, and build out the backend.
Your Day to Day Journey at Tagboard will provide adventure, excitement, and at least a number of the following opportunities to make an impact:
- You will design, develop and deploy backend services that scale, are highly available, and are easy to extend
- You take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, including taking part in on-call support
- Ensure our systems are future proof and ready to support the scale of our business
- Facilitate collaboration between teams to solve interesting and challenging problems
- Collaborate with key internal stakeholders to determine how to scalably design backend systems and APIs to meet their needs
- Collaborate in a cross-functional team, where the focus is on the frontend, but some backend and data work should be expected
To succeed, you will likely need these qualifications:
- Experienced in the architecture and design (patterns, reliability, scalability, quality) of microservice and cloud infrastructure
- Solid understanding of web application development patterns and approaches for large scale applications
- Experience implementing and maintaining integrations with social and external service APIs
- Proficiency in backend development and technologies such as JavaScript and Node.js
- Proficiency with modern JavaScript/CSS/HTML coding, testing, debugging, and automation techniques
- Ability to organize and structure the code base with experience developing modular and maintainable applications
- Experience working with data stores such as MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch
- Extremely detail-oriented, you must be able to hunt down and understand edge cases
- Strong problem-solver, you must be able to put forward multiple design options and iterate to find the most elegant solution
- Experience or knowledge of CDN and distributed caching approaches
- Energetic willingness to roll-up-your-sleeves and do whatever it takes
- Excellent attention to detail, highly entrepreneurial, creative, open-minded, persistent, and highly collaborative
- Deals well with constant change and high levels of ambiguity (we are a startup)
