Full Stack Developer
Base Operations
Role: Full Stack Developer Lead
Location: Remote
About Base Operations
At Base Operations, we create resilient organizations by increasing their understanding of every corner of the world. Crime, violence, protests, and political instability all pose a challenge to the smooth operationsof businesses. Base Operations aggregates, visualizes, and interprets threat data to help companies anticipate those disruptions around the world to keep their people, assets, and operations safe.
As a disruptor in a growing market, we are looking for impact-driven individuals who are passionate about technology and are committed to helping our customers innovate. We developed our technology at Harvard and MIT and use cutting-edge AI. The company is award-winning and backed by top-tier VCs. Our customers include some of the most sophisticated and relevant companies in the Fortune 500. Our team cares about solving hard problems, promoting transparency, encouraging growth in emerging markets, and empowering people to safely explore the world. We are a thoughtful, dedicated, and fun-loving group obsessed with disrupting the security industry and winning the loyalty of our customers.
About the role
Base Operations is building the world’s largest dataset of global threat patterns and street-level intelligence. We are looking for an exceptional software developer to help us build the software services to collect, process and deliver these data and insights to our clients. This individual should have strong skills developing across the full stack (node.js + react.js ecosystem), and the technical acumen to contribute thought leadership to our development practice.
Additionally, you should:
- Be curious with a strong bias for coding action,
- Be quality oriented yet capable of hammering out code quickly,
- Be “opinionated” on development best practices yet collaborative in its execution, and
- Find enjoyment in building capabilities that will directly impact our customers.
Responsibilities
Build, test, and maintain a set of robust back-end services and associated APIs to
enable client facing functionality.
Contribute to the development of client-facing front-end services.
Contribute to the development of data pipelines for the ingest and transformation of data
with active monitoring and quality assurance throughout.
Contribute to client and server-side architecture strategies, and drive transformation and
implementation activities resulting from those strategies.
Collaborate with product, data science, and development team members to continually
improve and drive value into our product.
Preferred Experience:
5-7+ years of hands-on experience specializing in Node.js, demonstrating expertise in
building robust production-level services.
3+ years of hands-on experience developing client-facing applications, emphasizing
React.js, and showcasing mastery in front-end languages, libraries, and UI/UX design.
3+ years of hands-on experience working on Next.js and Nest.Js
2+ years of practical experience with Express.js for crafting scalable APIs and services.
2+ years of practical experience with SQL, with a focus on PostgreSQL, showcasing
adeptness in navigating and optimizing data structures efficiently.
Proficient in architecting data-centric solutions, displaying competency in connecting
diverse data sources, constructing high-performing queries, and addressing intricate
data complexities in service design.
Strong collaboration skills across functional areas, fostering teamwork among data
science, infrastructure, software development, and product teams.
Nice to Haves:
Familiarity and practical exposure to Nest.js for developing reliable server-side
applications and APIs.
Exposure or familiarity with Next.js for constructing server-side rendered React
applications.
Experience crafting intricate SQL queries for data analysis and actively enhancing query
performance.
Previous exposure to geographic data types, online mapping tools (e.g., Google Maps,
Mapbox APIs), and GIS-enabled data stores (e.g., PostGIS, Snowflake).
Exposure or experience in cloud-based development environments, particularly AWS
platforms (e.g., S3, RDS, ECS), contributing to streamlined development processes.
Familiarity with Python for development purposes.
In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.
Base Operations champions diversity - we welcome and employ people regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, genetic information, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status. We are proud to be an
