Casetext (YC S13) is looking for a front-end engineer
Your mission will be to iterate quickly on Casetext's client side. (To see a sneak-peak of the product, go to http://beta.casetext.com. If prompted, the login and password are “casetext.”) We’re constantly parsing feedback from our users about how to improve their experience, and you'll be working with us to answer their needs.
We aren't looking for experience with a particular set of languages. Instead, you should be comfortable collaborating with other engineers on a diverse software architecture. Our front-end is a single-page AngularJS application written with Jade and Less.js that uses Firebase, a cutting-edge real-time datastore, to make the site incredibly fast and responsive. Our back-end stack includes ElasticSearch, NodeJS, Go, and Python.
We value people who are excited to learn new things. You should be able (and excited) to learn new languages relatively quickly and improve the quality of your code as you go. Giving and receiving feedback is part of the team culture.
You will have opportunities to blog about your work, attend conferences, publish papers, and open source large parts of the code you work on at the company.
ABOUT CASETEXT
Casetext's mission is to make all the world's laws free and understandable. We have amassed an enormous database of legal texts, starting with over two million U.S. judicial opinions. A community of law professors, lawyers, law students, and citizens are adding insight and explanations.
Casetext is disrupting an $8 billion legal research market currently controlled by a duopoly (Westlaw and LexisNexis) that has barricaded quality legal information behind a paywall.
This is an opportunity to be a very early employee at a rising start-up, take on a lot of responsibility, and play a substantial role in the future of the company. We are extremely selective with who we hire, but we make sure that our early team-members are well compensated in equity, salary, benefits, and quality of work.
You’ll be working with engineers from Google and IBM, the president of the Stanford Law Review, and former practicing attorneys from Yale’s and Stanford’s law schools. We are a Y Combinator company (Summer 2013) and have raised a seed round of over $1.8 million.
PERKS
Health insurance is fully covered. Caltrain passes are covered. We eat lunch out together every day, covered by the company. Free snacks and coffee at the office.
LOCATION
Casetext HQ is located in Palo Alto one street off of California Ave., just a few blocks from the Caltrain and next door to some of Palo Alto’s best restaurants.
HOW TO APPLY
E-mail us at jobs@casetext.com. Send a resume and links to examples of projects you’ve worked on. Code examples are very helpful.