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KZN Consulting
Full-Stack, Backend,
Original posting
KZN Consulting | Full-Stack, Backend, and Frontend Engineers | ONSITE (DC Metro) or REMOTE | Contract Only
We are a consulting and bootstrapped SaaS firm that’s launched products with paying customers. Our mission is to build smarter, real-time, and blazing fast solutions for our customers in the research space, academia, and local government.
Backend Engineers
Our backend stack uses Elixir, Postgres, PostGIS, and is hosted on AWS.
We are ramping up to build a heavy GIS component to our application using PostGIS, and some smart task routing and scheduling functionality. We are looking for Elixir developers, or other developers interested in doing Elixir full-time, to help build out the common underlying engines for our products, as well as to support some of our consulting clients part time.
Frontend (and Mobile) Engineers
Our frontend stack uses EmberJS, and our mobile stack uses React Native. Experience with either a huge plus.
* EmberJS experience a bonus
* Experience with a client-side Javascript framework (React, React-Native, Vue, or Angular)
Must-Have
* Extensive programming experience (web development using an MVC framework)
* Desire to learn Elixir and functional programming
* Innate curiosity and a hunger to learn new domains
* Ability to easily switch between domains (like: software that does project management, software that does alerting, and GIS software)
* Enjoy solving problems for under-served industries
Bonus Experience
* Experience with Elixir or other functional programming language like F#, Erlang
* Devops experience with Terraform or other Hashicorp stack
* Experience with Ember.JS
* Experience with React Native
Email us at people AT kznconsulting.com for more details.