Senior Software Engineer for Award-Winning Platform at Amara (New York, NY) (allows remote)
Job Description
Amara (amara.org) is an award-winning and rapidly growing platform for collaboratively subtitling and translating video on the web. Our open-source platform is used by TED Talks, Twitter, Khan Academy, PBS, Netflix, and many more companies, organizations, and individuals.
We’re looking for an exceptional and experienced web developer with serious Django and JavaScript chops to join our team. Our ideal candidate is highly motivated and technically sound, cares about the quality of her/his code, and is passionate about usability and accessibility. If that sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!
Compensation is very competitive and we offer excellent benefits. Most of all, you have an opportunity to join a simply outstanding team of talented, committed individuals.
Together, we are building a platform that goes far beyond any other subtitling toolset and that is growing into one of the largest collaborative communities on the web. We care deeply about building world-class software that changes peoples lives and changes the world. We’ve won three awards for innovating in accessibilty, equality, and intercultural communication.
Skills Requirements
About Amara
Amara is a fast-growing platform for collaborative subtitling. It gives individuals, communities, and larger organizations the power to overcome accessibility and language barriers for online video.
Joel Test score: 12 out of 12
The Joel Test is a twelve-question measure of the quality of a software team.
- Do you use source control?
- Can you make a build in one step?
- Do you make daily builds?
- Do you have a bug database?
- Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
- Do you have an up-to-date schedule?
- Do you have a spec?
- Do programmers have quiet working conditions?
- Do you use the best tools money can buy?
- Do you have testers?
- Do new candidates write code during their interview?
- Do you do hallway usability testing?
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