Senior FullStack JS Engineer (m/f/d) - Tech for Good

Started in San Francisco, funded  by Google.org, incubated by Facebook
Honorary Chairman : Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad YunusChance enables anyone, regardless of their background, to choose and access career opportunities most suited to their sense of purpose, skills and abilities. The core objective is to accelerate social mobility through enhancing engagement and performance in employment. Chance’s products and services combine advanced data science and psychological techniques, pioneering an emerging category of PsyTech.Chance’s core product is a digitally-led personalized online coaching experience that enables self-reflection, exploration and career validation over a three month period. The 3-month programme blends 24 hours of automated and personalized self-coaching, guiding users to reveal their aspirations and strengths, with 7 hours of video-coaching with professional career coaches, who guide users to overcome limiting beliefs and turn discoveries into defined actions. From the insights gained in the first phases, Chance is able to recommend potential career options, and then assist in refining a selection of relevant options whilst also enabling networking opportunities with established talent in the most interesting vocations identified. At the end of the programme, platform users are equipped and empowered to secure a new professional life with potential employers now able to understand how to adjust their hiring criteria to look beyond educational credentials or past career accolades.Revenues are generated from fees charged at programme sign-up, either via a free-trial and premium offering. The product is available in French-speaking markets today with c.70% of participants female from the c.20,000 users to date. The programme is fully accredited to be financed through French Personal Training Credits (CPF) available to all French taxpayers and, as a social business leader, 25% of all users of the programme have salaries below €1400 net per month.

As a member of the Product and Engineering team, and reporting to Scott Stonehocker, VP of Product, you will embrace state-of-the-art web development to build a personalized auto-coaching experience that guides users through their introspection phase and the discovery of their strengths, drivers, and deeper  meaning for their careers. You’ll lead users to a moment that helps them realize what they truly want, and enable them to get there. To do this well you’ll need to leverage data, collaborate across teams, and practice deep customer empathy in order to scale a highly customized and personalized auto-coaching experience.Upon joining Chance you will begin breaking the current linear product flows to rebuild a more intelligent experience that captures users inputs in a way that will personalize their auto-coaching experience. Your goal will be to build a system that can serve up the right content at the right moment, and maximize the “aha” moments throughout the autocoaching. Rebuilding the tool from the ground up will allow us to feed the exploration algorithms, and propose better career options to users. You’ll also prepare the product to launch globally, as well as build a scalable content management system to allow fast content adaptation to best suit our users. You’ll also build solutions for our coaches and talent agents so they have the real-time data needed to provide specific coaching and mentoring to their Chance clients, and accelerate the most important benefit - helping people find a job they love. This is tech for good.As a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer, you will be a critical part of the acceleration of our company, delivering customer benefit through your code. We need collaborators who work cross-functionally, with experience to be able implement best practices in technology, architecture, and process. As a growing team, we need you to add rigor to our agile process, and build a tech-culture within Chance. There are some complex challenges, and we need doers who aren’t afraid to roll up their sleeves and fix tough problems, no matter the project, and no matter the stack. You’ll be a pioneer of sorts, and your work will have immediate impact. We will work hard and fast, have fun, and deliver awesome products.

• A builder at heart who craves learning, and lives best practices (TDD, code review, pair programming)
• Work with other team members to quickly deploy code to production and automate all recurring tasks (unit tests, CI / CD ...)
• You believe in Egoless programming and apply its principles on a daily basis
• Strong object oriented design and programming skills
• Ability to take ownership over everything you ship; you'd never call code released until you’re confident it’s correct
• Confident in owning your role, bringing creative ideas to the hands of our users

• Work with designers, product managers, and other engineers to implement new features on our platform
• Contribute clean, clear, high-quality production code
• Help the product and design teamwork through the product specification, design, and feasibility process
• Contribute to building an amazing tech-culture
• Provide effective and constructive feedback on other engineer's contributions
• Research and recommend new technologies, help set best practices and coding standards

• Design: Sketch, Abstract
• Frontend: ReactJS, Typescript, Styled components, GraphQL
• Backend: NodeJS, Typescript, GraphQL, PostgreSQL
• CI: Github Actions
• Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS
• XP, AGILE and KISS are our drivers

• Full-stack engineering experience in any of the following languages: Node/React, TypeScript
• Experience with database modeling (SQL)
• Minimum of 5 years of industry experience in engineering
• Ability to take complex product goals and efficiently deliver working software in logically consumable pieces
• Creative and innovative problem solver with experience working in a startup environment

• Familiarity with ElasticSearch, Kubernetes
• Experience with TDD, Domain Driven Design
• Experience with GraphQL

Candidates for this position can expect the following hiring process.

• Chance vision - 15 mins chat with our VP of product Scott Stonehocker
• Screening interview - 30 mins with our tech lead Franck
• Craft review - 1h pair programming to check for tech and culture fit with Franck and Enzo
• Product at Chance - 30 mins with co-founder and PM Clemence Coghlan

Final interview - 45 min with our CEO Ludovic de Gromard

Competitive salary and medical insurance + shares of the company + access to outside mentors from other great tech companies + possible remote work

Founded in 2015 by Ludovic de Gromard and Clemence Coghlan, Chance is approaching a period of growth following a fundamental pivot in early 2018. The genesis of Chance can be traced to Ludovic de Gromard’s education in social entrepreneurship and applied psychology, early career experiences in hiring teams, and an opportunistic presentation to Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner, at a conference in Bangladesh in late 2014. The Chance concept was first launched in Brazil, given the social context, with funding secured from Google.org. Initial products identified high potential candidates from comparative game-based recruitment test data. Whilst significant enterprise contracts were secured for recruiting this talent, the recruiting business model conflicted with the social impact goals of Chance. This led to a pivot in early 2018 to reposition the product as a candidate-centric B2C offering. At the same time, Chance relocated its headquarters to Paris, assisted by further funding from Google.org and success in the Facebook France Start-Up competition. This led to the launch of their new digital B2C augmented coaching program in 2019. In April 2020 Chance completed Series A financing totaling €5.6m led by Zulu Group, Google.org, French Ministry of Labour, and various family offices. Muhammad Yunus operates as Honorary President alongside advisors Francoise Gri, former CEO of Manpower and IBM France, Alex Asseily, founder of Jawbone, Robert Dilts, a world leader in coaching, and Gilles de Robien, former French Minister for Education. Today the organization is c.25 employees supported by a community of over 100 partner coaches. The central goal is to build a robust and independent social company for the long term, and to achieve this Chance is now embarking on a significant expansion phase to complete its product offering and fulfill the market opportunity at scale.