We are Able, a company building products through a portfolio model, and we are looking to grow our team with a Staff Full-Stack JavaScript Engineer.

Do you love exploring and trying out new tools? Researching how to push the limits of your frameworks and libraries? Would you love to follow our thesis of working in products among different industries that seek to make a positive impact on our society?

If so, Able may be the place you’ve been waiting for. We are a passionate and good-willed team building creative and innovative projects and we’d love to hear from you!

What you’ll be doing

We are seeking someone who enjoys working in the JavaScript ecosystem, and who understands its strengths, but also its weaknesses. Someone who is particularly intrigued by newer tendencies and understands their value while looking past the hype and arriving at grounded insights.

In short, someone who likes:

  • facilitating technical conversations, unblocking them, and establishing guidelines and standards of quality within the team and project
  • mentoring and upskilling a team by providing regular, direct, and impactful feedback through implementing engineering best practices such as code reviews and pair programming
  • providing design, architecture, and platform guidance with a strong focus on quality, speed, stability, and scalability
  • working closely with Product teams and partners to shape and ship effective solutions
  • building web applications using modern frameworks like NextJS and BlitzJS that will run in scalable architecture such as serverless or microservices.
  • employing good practices and testing to guide their code base design and organization
  • researching the state of the art to inform which libraries, frameworks, and tools to add to our technical stacks
  • being pragmatic, knowing when to take shortcuts and when to invest in reliability. Not all codebases are created equally!

What we’re looking for

We want to work with people who have a passion for collaborating with their teams, and building software while nurturing inclusive and respectful relationships with their coworkers. With the ones that are open about their shortcomings and what they do not know now, but remain eager to keep on growing and closing those gaps.

Ideally, they would also have:

  • About 7+ years of professional experience working as a software engineer (or equivalent, we are flexible)
  • Deep knowledge of the JavaScript ecosystem including backend and frontend
  • The ability to translate complex business problems into simple and elegant solutions focused on important user needs
  • Experience optimizing an application’s performance and how the browser renders views.
  • Experience using TailwindCSS (bonus points if you know TailwindUI too!) to style complex UIs and make them responsive.
  • A good understanding of MVC architectures, as well as how to use databases and data stores such as PostgreSQL and Redis.
  • Exceptional verbal and written English communication skills

This position is 100% remote. We are looking for talent who can commit to at least 4 hours of overlap with our main team’s office working hours. (mostly 9 am to 6 pm CST)

Don’t think you are quite there, yet? That’s fine too. Let’s talk and share your story with us!

What you’ll love about Able

  • We are a team of all-around company builders who are both ambitious and humble
  • Diversity adds value to everything we do - We hire a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to allow the team to bring their own unique ways of thinking and working to each project
  • We host employee events (when it is safe to do so)
  • We believe in giving back to the community and helping others, which is why give the team social impact hours to use at their discretion.
  • We offer flexible paid time off for all full-time employees (this includes vacation, sick days, and wellness days because we understand the value of health, relaxation, spending time with friends and family, and traveling the world)
  • We believe a healthy body equals a healthy mind, so we offer a monthly health and wellness reimbursement

Our Core Values

  • Champion Outcomes Over Effort; You take ownership of problems and emphasize that the results created are more important than the time we spend or the approach that we take
  • Contribute to the Solution; You are responsible for identifying issues, and doing what you can to help solve them
  • Put People First; You emphasize people and relationships over processes or ideas. You seek to build and reinforce trust with colleagues and clients
  • Commit to Diversity; You contribute to a world where everyone can be themself, together
  • Get Better Every Day; You believe we all have the ability to improve and we're driven to help everyone be the best they can be

About Able

Able builds technology products in a portfolio model. We believe that people, teams, and processes are more important than the ideas themselves, so we’ve focused on bringing great people together, and investing in their growth.

We’ve built products in a variety of industries. Everything from media to finance to toys to healthcare. Sometimes we work with management teams to help their businesses grow faster or unlock value using technology. Other times we start or buy businesses outright. Each time, we look for opportunities to leverage technology built at the portfolio-level to drive value faster.

Able is committed to inclusion and diversity and is an equal-opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

This is but the beginning of a conversation we’d love to have with you.

Apply, and let’s get this adventure started!

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