About the company
Modus Create is a digital product group that accelerates digital transformation. We use high-performing teams, emerging technology, and “new school” product development tools and methods to accelerate business outcomes. We support our clients across four core delivery areas: business and product strategy consulting, customer experience, cloud services, and Agile software delivery. Driven by a team of world-class talent, we have been recognized by the Inc 5000 list of Fastest Growing Private Companies nine years in a row, the Washington Business Journal list of Fastest Growing Companies in the Washington, DC area three years in a row, and a top company for remote work by FlexJobs. We’re also an official partner to Atlassian, AWS, Cloudflare, GitHub, InVision, Ionic Framework, and Vue.js! Founded in 2011, with our HQ in Reston, Virginia and offices in Costa Rica, Romania and France, Modus has employees all over the world. Based on the model of an open source team, Modites work remotely and are located across the globe. This has allowed us to hire the best talent in the world, no matter where they live. Our highly collaborative, autonomous, and effective working environment is fueled by a team unified by a love of continuous learning. Our years of thought leadership including books, whitepapers, blog posts, conferences and MeetUp talks, demonstrate our commitment to sharing what we’ve learned. We encourage every Modus employee to do the same. Our company is a platform for the growth of our employees. Through working with our distributed team of experts on challenging projects, every person that joins the Modus team can expect to continue growing and learning every day. This is your chance to be part of building something great.
Job Summary
You love building great software. Your work could be supporting new feature development, migrating existing features, or creating APIs.
đź“ŤYou will balance your time between writing backend code in Java/Spring Boot-powered microservices or writing frontend code with VueJS. If you have past experience with NodeJS and AWS Lambda that will be a huge plus. Our client microservices are written in Java with Spring Boot running on AWS Fargate or NodeJS running on top of AWS Lambdas. The frontend is in the majority is VueJS. đź“ŤYou have strong development experience working with significant and demonstrable projects and are passionate about the latest industry trends, and innovations occurring in web-based and RESTful products. đź“ŤYou have significant experience with Java and Spring Framework, JavaScript, React or VueJS, Relational Databases, and AWS Cloud for containerized applications and serverless services. You have experience writing code with high coverage of Unit tests, using tools like JUnit and Mockito, and Jest. You also have some experience with Docker and CI/CD Pipelines. đź“ŤYou relish creating high-quality code from the comfort of your own home. Your engineering projects will focus on understanding customers' needs and translating those needs from product specifications into functional, production-ready code. You'll have the opportunity to ship code daily that will be used by customers. đź“ŤYou love learning and understand that software is an ever-evolving world. You enjoy playing with new tech and exploring areas that you might not have experience with yet. You are self-driven, self-learner willing to share knowledge and participate actively in your community. đź“ŤHaving overlap with your team is critical when working in a global remote team. Modus requires all team members to overlap with EST hours daily. In addition, reliable high speed internet is a must.
Things You Might Do
📍Modus is a fast-growing, and remote-first company, so you'll likely get experience on many different projects across the organization. That said, here are some things you'll probably do: 📍 Give back to the community via open source and blog posts 📍 Travel and meet great people- as part of our remote-first lifestyle, it's important that we come together as needed to work together, meet each other in person and have fun together. Please keep that in mind when you apply 📍 Teach and be taught: Modus creates active teams that work in internal and external projects together, giving opportunities to stay relevant with the latest technologies and learning from experts worldwide 📍Interact directly with internal and external clients to represent Modus and its values 📍Discover our comprehensive learning benefits, available to every Modite. Gain access to over 12,000 courses on a licensed learning platform. Plus, enjoy paid professional development time, including tailored training and workshops. Your growth matters to us—we’re here to help you thrive
