Contract Part-time Frontend Engineer

Planetary is looking for an experienced part-time (20-30 hours/week) frontend engineer for ongoing work across a number of exciting client projects.

As a part of Planetary, you'll have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of technologies, dive in to complex problems, and develop valuable user interfaces. You'll be a part of smart, strategic, and enthusiastic teams, able to fully exercise your development and technical skills across a multitude of projects.

This is a contract role. The hourly rate offered is $50–75/hr. You will be needed for between 20 and 30 hours per week, on an ongoing basis. Rate will depend on experience. (Salary listed is the annualized full-time equivalent.)

About Us

Planetary is a product studio where happiness, empathy, and exploration are our core values. We want to inspire our clients and build products that will make them (and their customers) successful. We design and develop everything from consumer-facing websites to B2B-focused web and mobile apps, creating unique experiences and distilling complex requirements into digestible interfaces.

We began as a remote team and, as such, have a comfortable work environment including:

• Flexible hours and autonomy over your time
• The ability to work from anywhere you'd like
• A healthy work/life balance
  
  

Requirements

You must have the following experience:

• At least 3 years of experience working with Next.js, at least 5 years with React, and at least 8 years with Javascript.
• Self-motivated and excited about finding technical challenges in any project.
• Familiar with the latest tools and technologies for frontend web development.
• Located in North, Central, or South America.
  
  

Additionally, You Are

• Excited to contribute to and have a meaningful impact on a close-knit team.
• Able to work with minimal supervision. Self-motivated and pro-active approach required.
• Able to attend meetings during NYC (Eastern Time) work hours.
• Fluent in English at a professional level.
  
  

Responsibilities

• Planning and executing against a backlog of development tasks on a sprint-based schedule.
• Estimating levels of effort and rough timelines for completion.
• Reviewing the code of teammates, providing feedback, and identifying issues or adjustments.
  
  

When Applying…

Please send along a link to a GitHub account, LinkedIn profile, and examples of past work.

Sound like your kind of job? If so, apply here or send a concise email to careers@planetary.co.