Back-End Developer (NodeJS)

Natural Cycles is a revolutionary approach to birth control and family planning. Whether you want to stay safe and healthy or whether you want to plan a pregnancy, Natural Cycles is the ideal solution for billions of women. Developed initially by two former physicists, Natural Cycles is clinically tested, used to date by more than 500’000 women and backed by two leading VC firms.

We are looking for a Back-end Developer who is passionate about our product, our customers and our vision and works with us to make Natural Cycles a global success.

Your tasks

You will have a key part in developing and improving our software applications, involving our mobile apps and websites. You will help our Product team to scale our product to millions of users globally while remaining fast, reliable and secure. One of the key aspects for scaling is remaining secure, reliable and well-tested.

Your background

Here is the technologies and principles that we use. You should be familiar with them OR be able to learn them quickly:

• NodeJS, TypeScript
• RESTful API
• OOP principles, design patterns
• TDD principles, one of the testing frameworks (Jasmine, Mocha, Tap, Ava or similar)
• Working with relational or schema-less (NoSQL) databases
• Docker
• Being able to deploy and scale your code and database in the cloud (we use Google Cloud)
• GIT

Our technical plans and challenges include

• Maintain and develop new functionality for our core product
• Ensure highest quality, performance and security of the product
• Ensure continuous delivery of new software releases while working in Agile way
• Maintain a healthy and consistent codebase with minimized technical debt and flexibility to expand
• Have a good coverage of automated tests
• Have routine operations automated (continuous integration, reproducible builds)
• Have a great product team
• Make working together fun & efficient
• Allow everyone to take initiative and contribute to the success of the company and product
• Allow everyone to participate in technical decisions
• Encourage learning
• Move towards emerging new industry standards when they become mature and stable
• Contribute to the open-source community by publishing reusable parts of the code

Natural Cycles is an effective method of contraception. And so much more. It's the app that gives you the knowledge to get to know your body and truly understand how your cycle works. It's protection with more sexual freedom - minus the side effects.