Backend Developer / Junior PM
We are looking for a backend developer who code in Javascript / Ruby (you could know either one, and learn the other one here). This is an environment where you will do and grow a lot. You will participate in backend development, coming up with high level design of the web and mobile applications. You will also have chance to work on the project management aspect, e.g. meeting with clients, and preparing technical proposals. This is the ideal role if you aim to grow to be a technical project / product manager.
Job Responsibility:
- Backend development to ship features (Ruby on Rails & Javascript)
- Product UI/UX design involvement
- Engage with prospective / existing clients for feedback and new leads
- Project proposals preparation involvement
Technical Stack:
- Ruby (using Ruby on Rails framework), or
- Javascript / Coffeescript (using node.js)
- HTML / CSS / SASS / SLIM
- Some cloud infrastructure management experience (e.g AWS / Heroku)
Ideal Candidate would be:
- Having 1 - 3 years of experience in backend development
- Project Management experience is preferred but not necessary. We will mentor our way of PM.
- Detail-oriented, and well organized as he/she may work on more than one project simultaneously.
- Good written skills in Chinese and English, and could speak English, Cantonese, and preferably Mandarin.
- Passion in software development and startups environment.
In this role, you will grow in a startup environment, own your work, and build up your industry network.
Salary: HK$18,000 - HK$24,000
Company Profile
We are WTF Studio, a software agency empowering companies and startups to employ IT, cloud, and big data solution to solve problems and create values.
We work on both our own and client projects, mainly:
- Creating sophisticated web-apps or mobile apps to help clients reaching their objectives.
- Offering cloud architecture solution, this includes designing the proper public/hybrid cloud infrastructure for clients, performing the migration to public cloud vendors in phases, providing training to clients sys-ops team, and monitoring the infrastructure.
- Offering data analytics solutions. As our clients collected more and more data, we help them to visualize the data in a meaningful way, generating insightful reports, building tools to monitor data in real-time, and finally building model to make predictions/recommendations based on modern data science techniques.
Our team practices craftsmanship and care about code quality, but we do not lose sight of the big picture on the business side, and our own personal growth. We adopt agile methodology on development, use whatever means/tools that is the most effective to deliver solutions in reasonable cost. Most of all, we ship. We are a group of people who work hard but also trying to have some fun in what we are doing.