[Hiring] Junior Software Developer @ListLab

Role Description

We're hiring a Junior Software Developer to join a small, fast-moving engineering team building a consumer-facing web application.

Flexible Title: Can tailor to reflect your skills & experience.

Flexible Time: Can do full-time, part-time, side-gig (off-hours), or fractional (contract).

Flexible Commitment: Can do short-term, long-term, or intermittent.

No degree required. Bootcamp grads, self-taught developers, and career changers welcome.

Why so flexible? We're a FUNDED startup racing to launch end of Q3 2026. That gives us just 3 months to stack features while raising additional working capital. Feel free to jump in, help us ship, then bounce >> or stick around. A successful launch translates into lots of permanent jobs for those that want them. We're also interested in long-term "side gig" relationships, if that's what you're into—in our experience, a few expert hours often beat full-time learning-curve hours.

What You'll Do in Your First 7 Days

• You've gotten your local development environment running and submitted your first PR.
• You've reviewed the codebase structure and understand where things live.
• You've attended your first engineering standup and know how the team communicates.
• You've picked up a starter ticket and shipped (or nearly shipped) a small feature or fix.
• The team knows who you are, why you're here, and how you'll work together.

What You'll Do Ongoing

• Build features — pick up tickets, implement them, get them reviewed, ship them.
• Fix bugs — investigate issues, trace them through the stack, and resolve them.
• Write tests — maintain and extend test coverage as you go.
• Participate in code reviews — review others' code and learn from reviews of yours.
• Improve as an engineer — ask questions, pair when stuck, and level up through real production work.

Qualifications

• Solid fundamentals in a modern frontend framework (React, Vue, Angular) and a backend language (Python, Ruby, Node — we'll teach you whichever you're missing).
• Can read and navigate an existing codebase — you don't need everything explained line by line.
• Understand the basics: version control (Git), REST APIs, relational databases.
• Self-directed learner — you Google before you ask, but you ask before you're stuck for hours.
• Strong async communicator — you write clear PR descriptions and flag blockers early.

Nice-to-have

• Previous contributions to open source or side projects you can show.
• Bootcamp, CS degree, or self-taught — we care about what you can do, not how you learned it.
• Comfortable in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.

What You're NOT

• Not a solo developer — you'll have senior engineers to learn from and a structured codebase to work in.
• Not a DevOps / infra hire — we have that covered; you're building product features.
• Not expected to be an expert — we're hiring for trajectory, not years of experience.

Compensation

Up to $95,000 max total annual compensation in Tier 1 cities; cash and equity components to be negotiated. Given the flexible commitment model, comp will be structured accordingly — fractional or hourly arrangements welcome.

Company Description

We're a credible, funded, remote-first startup backed by a growing team. We're pre-launch and moving fast.