Shopify Theme Desginer

This is a remote (North America), freelance contractor position, with the potential to go full-time.
You’ll work closely with the team to help our clients launch beautiful Shopify stores. We work with clients who use themes from the theme store, but we also do our fair share of custom Shopify themes, giving you the opportunity to design the full customer journey.
You must be comfortable designing Shopify themes from a blank canvas and understanding client needs and how that translates into effective user experience.
You must have availability during the day to work on projects. As much as we appreciate the side hustle, this position requires daytime working hours.

Required Skills

  • Adobe Suite or Sketch
  • Experience designing for ecommerce stores
Other Must-Haves
  • You’ll be communicating directly with the client, so we want you to have excellent communication skills.
  • We’re a remotely distributed team (with our home base in Atlanta, GA). You must be comfortable with working remotely and communicating with the team regularly via Slack/video chat.
  • We’re serious about the work we do, but we know when to have fun. If you have some excellent jokes (this includes dad jokes, by the way), we’d love to hear them.
About The Taproom Agency:
At The Taproom Agency, we help businesses realize their potential on Shopify. We’re all about getting to know our client’s brand and making it stand out in a crowded digital world. We’re a small, distributed team with our home base in Atlanta, GA, bringing unparalleled enthusiasm, expertise, and creativity to every e-commerce project.
A Day In The Life:
  • You’ll be creating strong visual designs that speak to our clients’ brand and its needs.
  • You’ll work collaboratively with our developers and strategists to ensure that all client needs are being met as efficiently as possible.
  • You’ll provide weekly status updates via Slack and participate in weekly touch-base phone calls with our Project Manager.
  • You’re the expert when it comes to resolving design-focused client questions and issues, so you’ll be communicating directly with the client.
  • You’ll diligently to meet established timelines for project completion.

Backend WordPress Developer

The Opportunity

Modern Tribe, is looking for a Backend Developer with solid PHP and WordPress experience to join our team. Are you a dependable and competent developer with strong communication skills? Are you a quick learner that likes to solve complex problems using WordPress and OOP techniques? We want to meet you!
The Backend developer gig at Modern Tribe will offer you the opportunity to become a core member within our tribe. You will be collaborating with an awesome dev team working on innovative and large scale WordPress installations. We are looking for a backend developer that is already actively working in the WordPress website and plugin development field. You need to be up to speed and knowledgeable about the most recent releases and standards of WordPress. We want you to be as excited and as passionate as we are about what we are creating with the platform.
Experienced WordPress developers only!

Inclusion Statement

Modern Tribe is committed to a culture that embraces diversity and inclusion. We foster an environment of collaboration, open engagement, fairness and respect regardless of differences in age, race, disability, national origin, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status. As a hybrid workspace ranging from distributed contractors to traditional employees, we value the unique perspectives and experiences of our global team.
We come from all walks of life. We are small business owners. We are tattoo aficionados and 80’s movie buffs and ex-pats. We are homeschool teachers. We are single parents. We are musicians, college drop-outs, and entrepreneurs. We are travelers, feminists, runners, volunteers, and makers. We are a Modern Tribe.
Everyday we strive to fulfill our motto: live well and do good work. We hope you will consider joining us.

Responsibilities

As a WordPress Backend Developer at Modern Tribe, some of your key responsibilities will be:
  • Collaborate with the project strategist and senior backend developers to articulate the best technological solution for the problem at hand
  • Analyze user story acceptance criteria to ensure the technical feasibility and point out potential issues
  • Work with a team of developers to deliver on time, on budget and on scope
  • Co-Architect and develop broadly compatible new products, features, and bug fixes with consideration for accessibility, performance, and multilingual installations
  • Write high quality code with readability, efficiency and maintainability in mind
  • Develop and maintain complex WordPress-based applications
  • Implement complex features using modern PHP code and patterns while following standards
  • Code review the work of other developers
  • Improve our internal tools, libraries and standards
  • Actively participate in our scrum meetings
  • Work with the team to diagnose and resolve backend bugs and support requests

Personal Competencies

  • Strong communication skills
  • Experience working as part of a remote team
  • Self-motivated, detail-oriented
  • Strong organizational skills
  • A methodical approach to all tasks
  • Ability to prioritize workloads and meet deadlines
  • Ability to work on multiple projects at the same time and complete tasks in a timely manner
  • Ability to work remotely with little-to-no supervision is a must
  • Excited to be part of a team with the potential for a long term relationship
  • Fluent English speaker

Knowledge & Experience

  • 1-3 years experience working as a backend web developer on production sites
  • 2+ years experience working on WordPress sites
  • Experience implementing complex WordPress sites
  • Familiar with modern PHP (for example: OOP, PHP 5.5 or greater, Composer, Laravel, or Symfony)
  • Experience writing code with a focus on security and performance
  • Thorough knowledge of WordPress, PHP and MySQL
  • Excellent understanding of OOP, software development life cycle and better practices

Bonus Points

  • Experience with continuous integration and automated deployment pipelines
  • Experience working with at least one automated testing framework
  • Experience with WPML
  • Experience with server technologies like Redis or ElasticSearch

Location

Work from anywhere in North, Central or South America. If your timezone is outside of US business hours but you work at least 4+ hours of overlap each day, let’s chat. You must be fluent in English. You just need a computer and a strong wifi signal to support daily video chats with the Tribe.

Compensation

Pay range for this role is between $35-$60 USD per hour commensurate with qualifications and experience. This is a freelance contract role 20-25 hours per week. We are always seeking longer relationships with exceptional people.

Perks

We believe that distributed working is a way of life. We understand what it means to work remotely. We offer consistency in expectations, payment, and support. We believe in learning from each other and fostering personal growth. You can expect to learn a lot while working with us.
(Also, if you work enough with us, we’ll bring you on the team trips.)

Who We Are

Modern Tribe, Inc. is a rapidly growing software & design company. We develop custom solutions for some of the world’s largest companies, government institutions and smaller growing organizations. We pride ourselves on our ability to bridge people and technology and to bring the passion and dedication of an entrepreneur to every project. Our team is composed of talented employees and freelancers around North & South America (and a smattering across the globe).

Who You Are

We love working with each other because we have built a culture that suits us well. We work primarily with freelancers and coordinate their talents for large projects. To be on our team, you must be:
  • HAPPY: Where there is a will, there is a way. Having a positive disposition allows us to achieve great things and to support each other.
  • HELPFUL: Always looking for ways that you can help others.
  • CURIOUS: It is essential that you have a passion for learning. Technology changes daily, and life has a way of constantly raising the bar.
  • ACCOUNTABLE: Our clients expect us to get the right thing done on budget and on time. Communicating expectations and meeting them is the cornerstone of success.

Full Stack Developer

Upstack is a friendly team of the world’s most talented freelance developers, working remotely for some of the coolest start-ups. It’s fun and challenging to join the top 1% of the world’s best developers. We have a strong focus on quality clients and developers and try to work on software that we love! Upstack is officially based in the US with headquarter in New York City and with offices in LA and Europe. We also have development hubs opening up all around the place with our first in Brasov, Romania. Our developers work from home and co-working spaces and sometimes even on the beach!
The work:
  Work with a small team of top-tier developers who are designing great user experiences and building truly great applications for web
   Participate in scrums consisting of cross-functional teams, both software and hardware
·    Ensure that features are being delivered efficiently and on-time
·    In addition to code contribution, you will also participate in architectural review and design
Minimum qualifications:
·       Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
·       3+ years work experience as a software engineer or relevant experience
·       Experience using at least one of these Front-end technologies: Angular.JS/ React.JS
·       Experience using at least one of these Back end-end technologies: Node.JS / Ruby on Rails / Golang / Python
Preferred qualifications:
·       Proven track record of shipping software and successfully released apps (please include names and links on your resume)
·       Strong attention to detail on every line of code, every unit test, and every commit message
·       Comfortable with rapid development cycles and tight schedules
We love when engineers send us a link to their Github and/or StackOverflow accounts, technical blog, or links to apps they’ve shipped!

Freelance Essay Writer

Masters Essay, Toronto’s premier academic essay writing service, is currently seeking freelance essay writers. Masters Essay consists of a strong group of more than 100 research writers and editors globally, consisting of highly qualified professionals, many of them holders of Masters or PhD degrees from diverse specializations. Our aim is to support our clients with outstanding quality work while we bring about improvements in their academic knowledge and expertise.
Successful candidates will enjoy the freedom and flexibility to work from home in this remote position.
The primary responsibilities of our writers include:
  • Conducting research, reading course materials, and drafting essays and other assignments for our clients
  • Ensuring that work is completed by specific and time-sensitive deadlines
  • Performing edits on pre-written work by our clients
  • Completing revisions as requested by clients and/or our Quality Control department
As a remote position, a reliable Internet connection and dedicated home workspace are essential. The ideal candidates will also have wide availability, including days, afternoons, evenings, nights and weekends.
This is a position with widely varying volumes of work (e.g., summers tend to be slower, while late fall and spring tend to be busy), and applicants should be aware of this when applying.
Additional qualifications include:
  • Completion of a bachelors’s degree (minimum) in any subject
  • Exceptional communication, organizational, time-management, and critical-thinking skills
  • Professional proficiency in Microsoft Word
  • Proficiency in a variety of academic writing formats (e.g. APA, MLA, Chicago) is preferred
  • Previous writing and/or editing experience is preferred (but not required)
We invite all interested candidates to submit a tailored cover letter and resume to hr@masterwriter.ca. We thank all applicants for their time and attention, however only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

Content Creator / Coordinator

We’re looking to onboard our very first Content Creator to help us launch our content platform (fancy word for ‘blog’). Our goal is to help product managers and designers get better at what they do by sharing candid stories of how others work behind the scenes.
You will source and produce interviews of inspiring ‘makers’ and create short, actionable content pieces to help product managers up-skill. The great thing is: you will have access to our community of thousands of passionate makers to source this content.
  • This is a freelancer role with no fixed amount of hours. You decide how much time you want to invest to achieve the results expected from you.
  • You get remunerated per article / piece you produce
  • If things go well, we will consider paying a monthly retainer

Responsibilities

  • Source interviews with up and coming product managers and designers. We will provide a target list, but you will also need to find and outreach to relevant people.
  • Create a list of interesting questions for each interviewee
  • Edit and proofread interviews for publication
  • Source ‘Hot Tips’ from our community – tips and tricks on product management, design processes and productivity
  • Produce writeups of past conference talks (see example here: jamlondon.io/conferences/2017)

Skills

  • You must understand product management trends and quickly make sense of ongoing challenges in the field.
  • You have excellent written communication, copywriting and editing skills
  • You’re able to figure things out on your own
  • You’re organised
You will work directly with Mathilde and Seb, the JAM co-founders and have visibility into all parts of the business day-to-day activities.

Freelance Blog Writer

The Role:
  • You’ll be writing for our blog (x-team.com/blog; soon to be upgraded), covering the happenings in the X-Team community. Topics will range from tech, development, travel, gaming, tech, movies, fitness, photography, music, mental health.
  • As you become acquainted with and become an active member of our community, you’ll be responsible to come up with story ideas, a content calendar, and interview various members of our community and operations team to develop new blog posts. It’ll be a mix of ghost writing as well as your own posts.
  • You’ll gather and prepare visual assets (images, videos, GIFs, etc.) for each post, so any editing skills are useful here.
  • You’ll report to the Head of Marketing and work collaboratively.
  • Did we mention you can do this from anywhere?
The Pay:
  • $20 per hour for 80 hours/month guaranteed ($1,600 per month)
  • $2,500 per year budget given to every X-Teamer which can be used for various activities which help you learn, grow and get energized. Examples include: gym membership, fresh produce, courses, conferences, babysitter, games, and more.
About You:
  • Experience writing for blogs and samples to show. Juniors are welcome to apply and show samples.
  • Big plus if you have some experience writing some technical related articles.
  • Big plus if you have Photoshop or illustration experience (not required).
  • Passion for all or most of these: travel, gaming, tech, movies, fitness, photography, music, mental health.
  • Strong understanding and connection with our brand, its voice, and the community values & spirit we’re trying to convey to the world.
Personal:
  • Independent, self-motivated
  • Fluent in written English
  • Proactive attitude
  • Possess a spirit of generosity
Perks:
  • Live and work in one of our roaming hacker houses (X-Outposts) around the world.
  • Work from anywhere as part of a community of digital nomads.
  • Join our vibrant community, filled with opportunities to learn new skills together in study groups, join clubs (photography, gaming, etc.) and get free camera equipment/games/conferences/courses/massages/etc., charitable fundraisers, fitness & yoga programs (+gym membership), etc. This is the community to be in if you’re a remote developer.
  • We’ll provide up to $2,500 in funding for your learning and growth through our Unleash program, which provides opportunities to unleash your potential through initiatives that help you grow as a developer and explore your passions more each day.

Senior Front End Engineer

We are looking for Senior Front End Software Engineer’s with extensive experience designing and developing large-scale customer-facing web applications. This person will be joining us at a very exciting time and will be a core member in the development of our enterprise web application for the legal market.
About You
  • You’re advanced in your knowledge of Javascript frameworks; Ember.js preferred, but Vue.js, React.js, and Angular.js are fine too
  • You’re a Javascript expert who loves working on or who’s been itching to work on a high-performing Ember app.
  • Your knowledge goes well beyond basic form fields on a page to highly interactive experiences engaging users in advanced ways.
  • Proficient in writing ES5/ES6/Babel/TypeScript, CSS/Sass and HTML/Handlebars.
  • You love building products and features from the ground up but have the experience to master and maintain an existing code base.
  • You’re a front-end aficionado who loves to create beautiful experiences for users, and you’ve got excellent HTML and CSS skills.
  • The words test-driven and agile are second nature to you.
  • You’ll participate in code reviews, pairing, and other forms of knowledge sharing.
  • You’re highly collaborative – you’ll work alongside fellow engineers to constantly develop products that exceed user expectations.
  • You enjoy diving into the user experience and strive to continually improve speed and usability to improve the product for the end-user.
  • You’re excited to work at a startup where things move quickly and where your contributions are integral to the success and growth of the company.
  • You are experienced with Git as a source code management tool.
  • You have a BA/BS in Computer Science or a related technical field preferred
  • You’re legally authorized to work in the United States, and do not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status.
This is a full-time position either Remote or in our office near the beaches based in Jacksonville, Florida. We’d prefer to have you here, but remote collaboration is ok too for great candidates. (We currently have remote employees) Salary is competitive, but you should be someone who wants a piece of the upside at a fast-growing company. No recruiters please and No contractors outside the US. We are looking for full-time employees.

Graphic Designer (Web & Print)

About This Opportunity:
We’re on the hunt for a kickass Junior Graphic Designer to join our team: someone who is creative and motivated, who can turn our visions into highly effective brand imagery.
As our in-house designer, you’ll be confident and comfortable taking constructive criticism and also questioning briefs. The ideal candidate is organized handling designs, briefs and manages their time wisely and efficiently. You’ll demonstrate your ability to contribute on brand ideas for our client portfolio.
Do you have a crush on visual design, a curious mindset and want to develop your skills? Do you have a great feel for UI/UX and know how to create visual content for social media? Then we want to hear from you!
Responsibilities:
    • The Junior Graphic Designer will be expected to perform the following functions:
    • Create and define brand guidelines
  • Conceptualise, design and produce all marketing material from inception to production
  • Producing ads for social media ad campaigns
  • Designing graphics to be used in emails and on site pages
  • Designing and producing email templates and landing pages
  • Manage packaging designs along with production quality management
  • Assist all business needs through creative graphics and visual content creation
Required Skills and Experience:
  • +1 years of experience working as a graphic designer
  • Must have great working knowledge of Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator
  • Expertise in brand guidelines
  • Experience with creating visual content for social media
  • Ability to code what you dream up in HTML, CSS, and JS is a big bonus!
  • Meticulous attention to detail
  • Excellent communication skills across all levels of business
  • Ability to work under pressure and able to deliver under strict deadlines
  • Flexibility to work in fast-moving and changing environment with varying tasks, responsibilities and key stakeholders
  • Ability to contribute to an entrepreneurial, innovative and collaborative team-based environment.
  • Fluent in English What PixelHaus offers:
  • Competitive compensation
  • A ridiculously awesome work environment – equal parts laid-back startup and motivated meritocracy
  • Option to work remotely and create your own schedule (we believe in trust and autonomy)
  • Enjoy face-to-face time with the whole team on all-expense paid retreats 2x year looking forward to hearing from you!

UI Developer

The Opportunity

Modern Tribe is looking for an experienced UI/Front End Developer to join our team as a freelance contractor.
If you have experience with advanced JavaScript, frameworks including React and React Native and want to apply those skills on top of a variety of delivery systems, from integrations with large scale WordPress installs to custom backend and server side rendered platforms you’re probably a good match for this role.
You will enjoy unique challenges and build hybrid app systems or complex interactive UI’s alongside other Front End/Back End Developers that will require deep collaboration with your team. Performance optimization and testing will be a required skill set, and knowledge of the latest asset bundling systems with optimal performance configuration for them will be key. You will also implement designs accurately with progressive css/templating methods and work with the rest of the team to identify reusable code proactively, abstracting that to internal tools as applicable.
This opportunity is for a person ready to challenge themselves with a diverse team on a wide range of JavaScript intensive projects. We foster a collaborative and engaging environment, and are looking for people who want to grow our systems with us as we create the best interfaces and experiences we can for our clients.

Inclusion Statement

Modern Tribe is committed to a culture that embraces diversity and inclusion. We foster an environment of collaboration, open engagement, fairness and respect regardless of differences in age, race, disability, national origin, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status. As a hybrid workspace ranging from distributed contractors to traditional employees, we value the unique perspectives and experiences of our global team.
We come from all walks of life. We are small business owners. We are tattoo aficionados and 80’s movie buffs and ex-pats. We are homeschool teachers. We are single parents. We are musicians, college drop-outs, and entrepreneurs. We are travelers, feminists, runners, volunteers, and makers. We are a Modern Tribe.
Everyday we strive to fulfill our motto: live well and do good work. We hope you will consider joining us.

Responsibilities

  • ARCHITECT: Work to architect scalable and maintainable applications across a range of technologies.
  • COLLABORATE: Coordinate and communicate clearly and whenever needed with designers, back-end developers and other application devs
  • SOLVE: You will be presented with complex technical requirements and design robust solutions to fulfill them.

Personal Competencies

  • Strong communication skills
  • Experience working as part of a remote team
  • Self-motivated, detail-oriented
  • Strong organizational skills
  • A methodical approach to all tasks
  • Ability to prioritize workloads and meet deadlines
  • Fluent English speaker

Knowledge & Experience

  • Extensive knowledge of modern JavaScript standards and patterns
  • Experience with React and/or React Native
  • Proficiency at local environment setup for app development, docker
  • Experience with REST APIs
  • Experience with async operations at scale and modern practices to handle them
  • Advanced experience with state management
  • Solid understanding of various styling approaches for UI Development (CSS Modules, Styled Components etc)
  • Unit, snapshot and integration testing
  • GIT

Experience Additional (Bonus Points)

  • Examples of plugins / code that you’ve released to the open source community
  • Experience with WordPress
  • Experience with GraphQL
  • Native app development (android, ios)

Location

Work from anywhere in North, Central or South America. If your timezone is outside of US business hours but you work at least 5+ hours of overlap each day, let’s chat. You must be fluent in English. You just need a computer and a strong wifi signal to support daily video chats with the Tribe.

Compensation

Pay range is between $50-$75 US per hour commensurate with qualifications and experience. We are currently looking for freelance contractors about 20 hours a week for this gig.

Perks

We believe that distributed working is a way of life. We understand what it means to work remotely. We offer consistency in expectations, payment, and support. We believe in learning from each other and fostering personal growth. You can expect to learn a lot while working with us.
(Also, if you work enough with us, we’ll bring you on the team trips.)

Who We Are

Modern Tribe, Inc. is a rapidly growing software & design company. We develop custom solutions for some of the world’s largest companies, government institutions and smaller growing organizations. We pride ourselves on our ability to bridge people and technology and to bring the passion and dedication of an entrepreneur to every project. Our team is composed of talented employees and freelancers around North & South America (and a smattering across the globe).

Who You Are

We love working with each other because we have built a culture that suits us well. We work primarily with freelancers and coordinate their talents for large projects. To be on our team, you must be:
  • HAPPY: Where there is a will, there is a way. Having a positive disposition allows us to achieve great things and to support each other.
  • HELPFUL: Always looking for ways that you can help others.
  • CURIOUS: It is essential that you have a passion for learning. Technology changes daily, and life has a way of constantly raising the bar.
  • ACCOUNTABLE: Our clients expect us to get the right thing done on budget and on time. Communicating expectations and meeting them is the cornerstone of success.

Freelance Writer of Literature Guides

LitCharts writers are an exclusive group of excellent writers with a deep understanding of literature and how to teach it to others. LitCharts writers have gone on to become best-selling nonfiction writers, 2017 national book award finalists, New York Times journalists, Harvard literature PhD candidates, and more. Now you can apply to join them!
We’re hiring writers to help expand our collection of over 700 literature guides. Writers can work from anywhere and compensation varies based on the length and difficulty of the work. Pace and schedule are flexible, though our ideal candidates will have at least 10 hours per week to spend writing LitCharts.