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Join the GoToTags team!
Values
- Open and honest discussions
- Hard work and commitment
- Roll forward, don’t dwell on the past
- Ownership and trust
- Wash, rinse, repeat as necessary
- Capability over experience
- Transparency
Benefits
- Competitive salary + income sharing
- Health insurance for you and your family
- Stock option plan
- 3 weeks + 10 days holidays paid time off
- Bi-annual reviews
- Fun work environment and team events
- Dog licks!
Looking For
- Smart, energetic and resourceful
- Both a self-starter and team-player
- Capable of solving new problems
- Attention to detail and quality
- Inherent grasp of new technologies
- Able to take calculated risks
- Passionate about life
Committed to a safe working environment for all employees
Due to COVID-19 all non-essential employees are working at home, with limited short visits to the office as necessary. This will continue until it is safe to do otherwise. GoToTags has always been setup for remote work for many roles and will continue to embrace this in the future.
Positions
Front End Web Developer
Front End Web Developer
GoToTags is building a top-tier, high-performing software and hardware engineering team to build a Connected Things platform. The platform will use modern technologies, tools and practices that spans cloud, desktop apps, mobile apps and industrial robotics. Do you want to be a part of that team? GoToTags is hiring an experienced front end web developer to build the web applications for the platform.
The GoToTags platform manages the configuration, life cycle, actions and history of Connected Things tags; integrating NFC, UHF RFID, barcode and other tag technologies. This requires complex setup, integration with external systems and generates a lot of data. The administration website is where the bulk of this work is done and the results are visualized and analyzed; you will be responsible for these web applications. Your focus will be on creating the user experience and visual design of sophisticated features and workflows, while other team members are focused on back-end services, data and client applications. Often you will be the voice of the user; pitching features and changes to allow for a better user experience. Success will require you to become an expert in Connected Things and GoToTags; this means digging deep into the technology and the mind of the users. Overall, the role represents an amazing opportunity for you to impact a rapidly developing technology with an industry leader.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop the front end web applications for the GoToTags Cloud
- Build web components for authentication, configuration, data administration, data analytics, visualization and more
- Integrate external admin themes into the GoToTags codebase
- Engage the technical community via public GitLab projects for feature requests, bugs and documentation
- Participate in the creation of technical help content and videos
Skills and Experience
- Minimum of five years writing code for modern web applications
- Product and customer focused; with an appreciation of UX and eye for visual design
- Strong understanding and experience with web standards and technologies; HTTP, HTML5, CSS3, SASS/LESS, JavaScript
- Highly proficient with web frameworks and ecosystem; Vue.js, Angular…
- Experience with Bootstrap, Chart.js and similar web components
- Experience integrating with back end APIs (GraphQL, REST, JSON)
- Experience with PHP and Laravel a bonus
- Comfortable with Git and GitHub or GitLab
- Experience building large scale data administration and analytics websites
- Very strong organizational skills with a high attention to detail, quality and accuracy
- Strong time management skills; self-tasking and prioritization
- A quick learner, eager to solve problems the right way
Role
- Full time employee
- Based near Spokane, WA; work from home for foreseeable future
- Report to CEO/CTO
Desktop Developer
Desktop Developer (Kotlin/Java, JavaFX, C++, Arduino)
GoToTags is building a top-tier, high-performing software and hardware engineering team to build a Connected Things platform. The platform will use modern technologies, tools and practices that spans cloud, desktop apps, mobile apps and industrial robotics. Do you want to be a part of that team? GoToTags is hiring an experienced developer to create commercial and industrial desktop apps that integrate with hardware sensors, robotics and cloud services.
The GoToTags platform manages the configuration, life cycle, actions and history of Connected Things tags; integrating NFC, UHF RFID, barcode and other tag technologies. While the Cloud software provides online data management and analytics, the desktop software and hardware does the difficult technical work of working with tags of different technologies for a variety of processes. This means writing low-level code to integrate with sensors and robotic tag encoding systems, applications for the control and workflow of this hardware and integration to the cloud. Your focus will be on the specific feature set of the desktop software and integrating with new tag and hardware components. Other team members will be focused on the cloud for data management and access to online services which the desktop software will consume. You will also write embedded code for the robotics, and work with other team members for the mechanical and electrical engineering and manufacturing. You will need to become the low-level technical expert and be able to bring that understanding to the entire company. Your desk will be a mess; full of different external hardware, tags and electronics components. You can sit down with a 100+ page technical spec, make sense of it and then write code for it. Success will require you to become an expert in Connected Things and GoToTags; this means digging deep into the low level technology and the mind and processes of the users. Overall, the role represents an amazing opportunity for you to impact a rapidly developing technology with an industry leader.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop native Windows and Mac desktop apps
- Develop low-level SDKs for sensors and hardware
- Develop embedded software for robotics systems
- Work closely with the CTO for application architecture and implementation
- Engage the technical community via public GitLab projects for feature requests, bugs and documentation
- Participate in the creation of technical help content and videos
Skills and Experience
- Minimum of five years writing code for native desktop apps
- Highly proficient with desktop Kotlin and Java; can online train Kotlin if needed
- Strong experience with desktop UI frameworks; JavaFX, tornadofx, WPF, Windows Forms, …
- Working experience with C/C++ and low-level code
- Experience with robotics frameworks and components a bonus; Arduino, ROS, Teensy, PlatformIO, …
- Experience integrating with online services via JSON REST APIs
- Able to write unit tests for software and hardware
- Basic understanding of electrical engineering
- Comfortable with Git and GitHub or GitLab
- Very strong organizational skills with a high attention to detail, quality and accuracy
- Strong time management skills; self-tasking and prioritization
- A quick learner, eager to solve problems the right way
Role
- Full time employee
- Mostly work from office in Spokane, WA to be around hardware; some work from home available
- Report to CEO/CTO
- Occasional travel for client installations
Backend Web Developer
Backend Web Developer (PHP, Laravel, AWS, MySQL, NoSQL)
GoToTags is building a top-tier, high-performing software and hardware engineering team to build a Connected Things platform. The platform will use modern technologies, tools and practices that spans cloud, desktop apps, mobile apps and industrial robotics. Do you want to be a part of that team? GoToTags is hiring an experienced Laravel/PHP developer to build the back-end services for the platform.
The GoToTags Cloud manages the configuration, life cycle, actions and history of Connected Things tags; integrating NFC, UHF RFID, barcode and other tag technologies. This requires complex setup, integration with external systems and generates a lot of data. The back-end of the Cloud provides access to services and data via APIs for all client applications; you will be responsible for these services. Your focus will be on what services and data are needed, how data is represented, how the services are accessed, performance, scalability and security. Other team members will be focused on the client application; their specific features, UX and UI. You will be the focal point and leader of the Cloud; working with other team members and users to understand their requirements and unify them into a common and consistent feature set. Success will require you to become an expert in Connected Things and GoToTags; this means digging deep into the technology and the mind of the users. Overall, the role represents an amazing opportunity for you to impact a rapidly developing technology with an industry leader.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop the back-end services for the GoToTags Cloud
- Build components and APIs for security, data management, external integrations, analytics, background jobs, …
- Work with the CTO for systems architecture and data design
- Build continuous integration, deployment and testing scripts
- Engage the technical community via public GitLab projects for feature requests, bugs and documentation
- Act as the project manager for Cloud related tasks
- Participate in the creation of technical help content and videos
Skills and Experience
- Minimum of five years writing code for modern web services
- Proven ability to design software to be used by other applications and developers
- Experience integrating with client web application, mobile apps, desktop apps and external systems
- Highly proficient with Laravel, PHP and the related ecosystem (Composer, packages, …)
- Strong understanding and experience with web technologies; HTML, JSON, REST, OAuth, GraphQL, …
- Strong understanding and experience with data stores; SQL, Redis, data warehouse
- Experience with AWS services; EC2/Linux, CloudFront, ElastiCache, Kinesis, Redshift, RDS, SQS, …
- Able to write unit tests and continuous integrating tests
- Comfortable with Git and GitHub or GitLab
- Experience building large scale, highly available data administration and analytics services
- Very strong organizational skills with a high attention to detail, quality and accuracy
- Strong time management skills; self-tasking and prioritization
- A quick learner, eager to solve problems the right way
Role
- Full time employee
- Split work from office in Spokane, WA and home if desired
- Report to CEO/CTO
Content Writer
Content Writer
Do you have a zest for the online and digital world? Are you excited about Connected Things and the power of the behind the scene technology? Do you have the research and communications skills to showcase that technology to draw the interest of the international community? If you’ve answered “Yes” then our dynamic technical team at GoToTags wants you to expand our digital footprint and drive more value through our online content.
As a content developer your role has two primary goals: (1) create compelling content around Connected Things and GoToTags to drive commercial traffic and (2) develop informative content supporting the use our software and products. Content development must be optimized for maximum impact across various channels including our website, blog articles, help site, ecommerce site, YouTube channel, advertising campaigns, email marketing, social media and others. You will be responsible for identifying what content needs to be created or updated, getting the content produced, publishing the content and tracking the content’s efficacy via analytics. Wash, rinse, repeat! Success will require you to become an expert in Connected Things and GoToTags; this means digging deep into the technology. Support from the entire team will help to identify content needs and to create content; but ultimate responsibility lies with you. Overall, the role represents an amazing opportunity for you to impact a rapidly developing technology with an industry leader.
Responsibilities
- With our help you will become an expert in Connected Things and GoToTags
- Write four high quality blog posts per month; including case studies, press releases, news articles, product announcements, tutorials…
- Produce and curate our technical help content
- Write eCommerce product and category content
- Manage all social media profiles
- Be involved in YouTube video production; script writing and other duties
- Publish content via our MailChimp mailing list
- Track and optimize all web content with Google Analytics and Search Console
- Develop strategic content for partners and investors
Skills and Experience
- Minimum of four years in a content/technical writing role
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills and storytelling ability
- Strong understanding of SEO
- Very strong organizational skills with a high attention to detail, quality and accuracy
- Strong time management skills; self-tasking and prioritization; we are very fast paced
- Experience with WordPress and an eCommerce platform (Magento, Amazon Seller Central, …)
- Working understanding of Google Analytics and Search Console
- Digital marketing and advertising experience a bonus (Google Ads, remarketing…)
- Basic experience with graphic design tools including Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
- Proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
- Experience with video production a bonus
- Capable of using the Internet to figure things out for yourself
- Able to learn new systems and processes quickly and improve on existing processes
- General business math, financial and analytical skills
- Basic experience with web design and development (HTML, CSS, ..) a bonus
Role
- Full time employee
- Three-month training period
- Infrequent travel for events, customer interviews or to our other offices
- Report to CEO
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