We have an opportunity for a Director of Engineering to join our team at Chani Nicholas Incorporated to help sustain and build our next chapter.

About Us 

Chani Nicholas Incorporated was founded by Chani Nicholas, a Los Angeles-based, Webby award-winning, NY Times-bestselling author and astrologer. 

We are a queer, feminist-led tech and media company on a mission to make astrology, and its wisdom, accessible to everyone as a tool for self-discovery, mindfulness, and healing. 

The Job

You eschew the “brogrammer” culture in favor of a forward-thinking and collaborative environment where technology is there to serve the needs of your users. You are a team player who can also work independently without a lot of direction, effectively taking requests from marketing, design, and other leadership and turning them into functional and beautiful production ready app features.

You are a dedicated software craftsperson and product lead who cares deeply about best practices and what it takes to write and maintain great code and push forward with innovative concepts. You have high emotional intelligence, an abundance mindset, able to effectively balance the needs of the creative and technical.

You will develop and be responsible for building and updating both front and back end applications and systems, finding and squashing bugs, and maintaining a clean and elegant codebase. We are building our Android app with React Native, however, you must be able to work with any necessary native integrations. You will help lead the development of an astrology API.

You do not have to be an astrologer or familiar with astrology right now to apply, but you should be willing and able to learn the language of astrology so that your engineering reflects astrology’s logic.

Technical Skills Required

3 – 5+ years in mobile app development with strong React Native, Android (Java/Kotlin), and SDKs experience

3 – 5+ years in web app development with strong React and JavaScript experience

3 – 5+ years in backend development with strong PostgreSQL, Node, and Express experience

Fluency with Android and React Native tool ecosystems for development, testing, debugging, and performance benchmarking (Visual Studio, Expo, React Developer Tools, Google Play Store)

Extensive hands-on experience creating custom UI controls, consuming RESTful APIs, GraphQL, designing protocols, animations, and performance optimization

Familiarity with building a full CRUD, REST API from scratch

A disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation and code structure in a team environment

An excellent understanding of best practices for concurrency and threading

A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques

Strong understanding of data structures & algorithms

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Bonus

Experience with other cross platform frameworks, iOS Development, DevOps, TDD, and agile methodologies

How to Apply

To apply, please send your cover letter, resume, portfolio, and a list of 3 references (names, relationship, position, and email address) to Milcah Halili at [email protected] with the subject line “Lead Full Stack Developer Application.”

Folks who are queer, trans, non-binary, Black, Indigenous, people of color, disabled, parents, are/have been system-impacted, are immigrants, and anyone who has experienced systemic oppression and/or gender-based violence are encouraged to apply.

The Interview Process

1. The team reviews your portfolio and resume.
2. A member of our team will hop on the phone with you for 15 minutes to assess your skill set and ask, “Why Chani app?”
3. You’ll participate in a 1-hour pair programming session with the Director of Engineering. You’ll be asked to share your screen and work through coding challenges.
4. You’ll participate in a group interview with the Director of Engineering, Director of Technology, and Director of UX.
5. You’ll participate in a group interview with the President and CEO.
6. You’ll participate in a 45-minute interview with the full CHANI team.
7. The team reviews all feedback.
8. We make a final decision and notify you.

Location

Los Angeles, CA preferred, but must be willing to travel once every quarter to Los Angeles

Details 

Applications reviewed on a rolling basis

Employment Type

Exempt, full-time position

Salary and Benefits

$110k (plus $12k+ in additional annual stipends for a total of $122k)

We offer excellent benefits and work perks, including flexible work from home, unlimited paid vacation, paid sick leave, access to a variety of completely covered health, dental, and vision plans, life insurance, and 401(k) plan with a 5% match.

Position reports to

Director of Engineering