Motel Vacancy: Full Stack Software Engineer

Motel is looking to add an experienced, US-based Full Stack Software Engineer to our remote team! Read on to learn about who we are, what we’re looking for, and how to apply.

Motel is a fully remote, US-based digital product agency with a few strongly held convictions:

We take care of each other

We believe that companies should take care of their employees and that employees should take care of each other. We provide weekly mentorship to help guide you down a career framework that you’ll help us craft, and we offer a transparent and competitive compensation package and generous benefits.

Do great work, and then do something else

We ask a lot of our team, but we also know that your job is only part of your life. We’ll keep you busy during ‘working hours’ but leave you plenty of time to pursue the things that are important to you outside of your job. We are committed to a 40 hour work week.

Great products are crafted by integrated teams

Close collaboration of design and engineering lead to better outcomes. Our engineering team plays a big part in our design process, and our design team collaborates closely with the engineering team at all stages of the development process.

Motel’s Engineering Team:

• Writes the majority of our projects in an Elixir-centric stack, but in our current projects we’re also working in Node, Go, React, React Native, and Vue.
• Communicate skillfully with teammates and clients, both written and verbally. We’re able to discuss our work with people who have a wide variety of technical knowledge.
• Is passionate about personal growth as well as helping improve the quality of work across the team.
• Cultivates an environment of healthy communication, support, and collaboration — allowing safe and supportive code review and healthy test coverage.
• Has deep knowledge across a variety of programming practices, such as deployment, performance, debugging, refactoring, and design patterns.
• Solves complex problems at significant scale.
• Writes quality, tested, production-ready code.
• Is able to deliver refined features from abstract business requirements.

If you check most or all of these boxes (especially experience with Elixir and the Phoenix framework), we would love to consider you for a Full Stack Software Engineer position. Most qualified applicants will have 3 to 6 years of professional software engineering experience and have worked successfully on a remote team before.

Salary and Benefits

The starting salary for this position will be between $92,000 and $110,000 annually.

As for benefits, we offer many!

• The cost of your health insurance is 100% covered by Motel. You may also add your family to your plan, and we’ll cover 50% of their cost too.
• The cost of vision and dental insurance is 100% covered by Motel for both you and your family.
• We are proud to offer twelve weeks of paid parental leave any time you add a new member to your family.
• We will give you a company card that is loaded with $300 every month to cover work-related expenses, such as a coworking space membership, home internet, coffee, and so on.
• We go on team-wide retreats about every nine months and we can’t wait for you to come along. We’ll explore a new city together and bond IRL.
• Every year we’ll give you $2,000 to spend attending industry-relevent conferences.
• Our team works on a flexible schedule with very few meetings. You can get your work done each day at the time that works best for you.
• We enjoy each other’s company but realized we don’t get nearly enough of it. We’ll give you a Buddy Budget with $1,000 to spend every year traveling with your coworkers.

How to Apply

Please introduce yourself to us at careers@motel.is and Megan will follow up with you as soon as possible. In your email, please include:

• Your resumé
• Current employer
• Links to your online presence (GitHub, portfolio, slides from a talk you’ve given, a side project you’re passionate about, etc.)
• One or two paragraphs about how your experiences align with the expectations of our current team. (Hint: practical experience with Elixir, or functional programming, and previous remote work experience are major advantages.)

Motel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Diversity of background, age, story, and complimentary skill sets are what make teams successful. We are committed to making hiring decisions with that in mind and we provide everyone with equal access to professional development.

Please note that we are unable to offer work visa sponsorship at this time.