[vox-jobs] Senior Full Stack Developer & Python Full Stack Sr. Developer positions

[Bill Kendrick]

Taken from https://draft2digital.com/careers/

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== Draft2Digital, LLC is hiring! ==

Draft2Digital is the leading platform for independent, self-published
authors and small presses to format and distribute their books online
and worldwide. With automated formatting and layout tools, a unified
sales tracking dashboard, and a comprehensive catalog of retailers,
subscription services, and library distribution partners, D2D helps
indie authors and publishers reach more readers in more places than
any other distributor, and all for free.

Books2Read, D2D’s book promotion and author discoverability platform,
is a first-of-its-kind resource, with tools built specifically to
empower authors to increase their reach, and to lead more readers to
discover their books. From Universal Book Links to Author Pages, New
Release Notifications to Reading lists, Books2Read is an
ever-expanding toolkit built with the needs of the author in mind.

The Smashwords Store is the world’s largest bookstore dedicated to
indie authors and publishers. The store provides authors and
publishers the industry’s highest royalty rates of up to 80% of list
price, and offers self-serve merchandising tools like Smashwords
Coupons and Smashwords Presales. The store offers readers multiple
storewide sales events, advanced search and filtering capabilities,
and author alert notifications when a favorite author releases a new
book.

Are you ready to be a dream maker? Draft2Digital is “self-publishing
with support,” providing the most celebrated level of author support
on the planet. When you join our team, you are becoming a part of a
friendly, energetic, supportive environment, built by authors and for
authors, and helping to make dreams of writing and publishing a
reality for everyone.

Draft2Digital is looking for qualified US-based applicants only.

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== Full Stack Sr. Developer ==

We are looking for someone who can fill a key role in our development
process, providing development of our server-side and client-side
features within the Smashwords platform and storefront.

You will be working on a small team and will be expected to manage
your time effectively without strong oversight but with regular
contact from the CTO and Project Manager as needed.

Responsibilities

 * Implement new features as we continue to grow and change as a
   company
 * Work with Product Owners to turn ideas into actionable items
 * Establish clarity on design and implementation needs
 * Write and maintain unit tests
 * Actively collaborate with other developers using cloud-based tools
   such as Slack, Git, and Gerrit
 * Advocate for development best practices and understanding broader
   code base ramifications
 * Responsible for some reviewing of code and implementation
   strategies
 * Work with System Administrators on deployments as needed

Required Experience and Qualifications

 * Computer Science Degree or equivalent
 * Expertise in at least two of Go, Python, SQL, React or AngularJS
   and confidence in most of the others.
 * JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
 * Experience with version control systems such as Git or Gerrit
 * Preferred candidates would have expertise or familiarity with
   queuing systems such as RabbitMQ, search systems such as
   ElasticSearch, and devops software such as Vagrant, Chef, Docker,
   or Kubernetes
 * PHP experience is also helpful
 * Unit testing

Additional Desired Skills

 * 5-10 years professional development experience with at least 5 of
   those as a full stack developer
 * Comfortable working in Linux operating system environment
 * Excellent communication and time management skills

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== Python Full Stack Sr. Developer ==

Position Overview

We are looking for someone who can fill a key role in our development
process, providing development of our server-side and client-side
features at both Draft2Digital and Books2Read. This will include
document conversion, eBook and print book generation, and metadata
distribution to third parties, and developing new features for our
websites. The position will call for development using the Django
framework and will require excellent Python development skills. This
also includes client-side development using JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and
React/Redux.

Additionally, the ideal candidate would also have advanced DB
knowledge, specifically PostgreSQL as well as experience with Celery
or another task manager. Past experience developing RESTful APIs
(including Django Rest Framework) is also a plus.

You will be working on a small team and will be expected to manage
your time effectively without strong oversight but with regular
contact from the CTO and Project Manager as needed.

Responsibilities
 * Implement new features as we continue to grow and change as a
   company
 * Support the generation of xml feeds of our book catalog to enable
   distribution to third parties
 * Writing performant code
 * Writing migrations to keep systems up to date to ensure continuity
 * Management of small dev team for company project initiatives
 * Work with Product Owners to turn ideas into actionable items
 * Establish clarity on design and implementation needs
 * Advocate for development best practices and understanding broader
   code base ramifications
 * Responsible for some reviewing of code and implementation
   strategies
 * Work with System Administrators on deployments as needed

Required Experience and Qualifications

 * Computer Science Degree or equivalent
 * Excellent understanding and skill with the Python programming
   language
 * Django (or Flask/Rails)
 * Postgres SQL/Relational DBs
 * REST APIs
 * JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
 * Front end framework experience with React/Angular or equivalent
 * Unit testing

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== About Draft2Digital, LLC ==

We provide a simple process to turn authors’ documents into
professionally formatted eBooks and print books and release them
through all the industry's most powerful sales channels. We give our
users a single place to publish their projects, to manage any changes,
and to track their performance across multiple vendors at
draft2digital.com

Additionally, we offer a platform for findability and discovery with
Books2Read. This assists authors and readers to help keep track of new
releases, to discover books, and find great reads at the digital store
of their choice by virtue of new release notifications and universal
book links.  We also have recently acquired Smashwords and its online
bookstore which offer even greater development and professional
growth.

== About Smashwords (now part of Draft2Digital, LLC) ==

Founded in 2008, Smashwords blazed the trail for any author anywhere
to make it fast, free and easy to publish and distribute ebooks around
the world. Now they have teamed up with Draft2Digital another leading
Indie author first company to establish themselves as the premier
indie author distributor in the world. Not only does Smashwords and
Draft2Digital assist authors in making their dreams come true they
also provide a place for you to sell your book with the Smashwords
Bookstore.

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https://draft2digital.com/careers/ has links for where to email
resumes.

-bill!