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About The Hiring Process

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JOB TYPE: Freelance, Contract Position (no agencies/C2C - see notes below)

LOCATION: Work from anywhere - PST/PDT/CIST | full day overlap

SALARY RANGE $100,000 – $130,000 /yr

ESTIMATED DURATION: 40/week - long term

BRAINTRUST JOB ID: 11594

The Opportunity

Qualifications

• 10+ years working in software development professionally, with 1+ year of recent experience building with TypeScript and 1+ year with Next.js.
• You have great communication skills and a track record of leading progressive software teams and large projects.
• Track record of large code migration and modernization projects, ensuring business continuity and reliability during and after the migration.
• You have a keen product sense and are obsessed with creating a delightful developer experience.
• Experience in building distributed systems and developing containerized applications.
  
  

Nice To Have

• Solid experience in building complex Next.js apps, including commonly used frameworks and libraries with Next.js (state management, styling, testing, data fetching, routing and navigation, UI component libraries, type checking, backend and API interaction, authentication, SEO, linting, analytics, i18n, SSG), and knowledgeable about the Next.js App Router paradigm and Server-Side Rendering.
• Strong computer science foundation, programming languages, AST, data structures, compiler theory.
• Experience in building and using "codemods" for large-scale code changes.
• Product-minded and interested in automating repetitive tasks to expedite migrations for future clients.
• Natural problem solver: in the face of complex technical problems, you always come up with innovative solutions.
• Successful track record of working and communicating directly with customers.
  
  

What You'll Be Working On

About The Role

As the first tech lead/CTO, your mission is to build the world's best platform for code automation at scale to help engineering teams of any size modernize their code 10-100 times faster than ever before.

You start by shipping a lot of great code and at the same time assume the role of CTO, where you will lead and scale a remote team of stellar engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own the success of code migration campaigns for our customers
• Your superpower is to take the challenging technical problems that we set out to solve for our customers and break them down into smaller ones.
• You distribute the workload among the team based on their strengths, and you take on the most difficult piece to crack.
• As a hands-on tech lead, you roll up your sleeves and do whatever it takes to ensure that we really solve our customers' problems and fully take migrations off their plate.
• Own product roadmap
• You start with envisioning an exceptional outcome for our users and customers and then work backward to the implementation, laying out the architecture and the game plan to go from where we are today to where we are going to be in the following months and years.
• You have the expertise and confidence to provide time estimates for product deliveries, considering the throughput of the team you lead and your needs.
• You are keen on learning and leveraging cutting-edge technologies, including AI/ML, to solve code evolution problems at scale.
• You are on top of market trends and research, and document your vision in your short-term and long-term product roadmaps.

• Lead the engineering team
• You lead by example, inspiring your team. You know how to deliver at peak performance for extended periods and inspire others to do the same with their delivery, so they can have the most productive and joyful days of their careers.
• You help the team grow personally and professionally and deliver as a team by guiding them on prioritization, removing roadblocks for them, educating them, and assigning tasks that align with their strengths.
• You build and grow the team by interviewing candidates who constantly raise the bar of delivery and quality within the team.
  

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Notes

Our employers all have varying legal and geographic requirements for their roles, they trust Braintrust to find them the talent that meet their unique specifications. For that reason, this role is not available to C2C candidates working with an agency. If you are a professional contractor who has created an LLC/corp around their consulting practice, this is well aligned with Braintrust and we’d welcome your application.

Braintrust values the multitude of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.