Fullstack Job: Full Stack Developer

NEC X is looking for Full Stack Engineer for our entrepreneurs-in-residence (EIRs), who are the champions of NEC X. As a backend developer on the team, you will work with several startups and NEC's world-class engineers and researchers to build world-leading startups together with our EIRs.

About NEC X:

Launched by technology giant NEC Corporation in 2018, NEC X, Inc. fast-tracks yearly spinouts. We match our cutting-edge technologies developed at NEC with innovative business ideas brought by entrepreneurs-in-residence (EIRs) and its co-founders. NEC X then incubates and accelerates these startups through our program. We are located in Silicon Valley to leverage the startup ecosystem to commercialize through open innovation.

EIRs and co-founders are the champions of NEC X. Our goal is to build world-leading startups with you!

About the Role:

In this role, you will be developing the backend of early-stage startups for NEC X with the potential to become a co-founder or an early employee of a startup, or keep being a full-time employee at NEC X, though starting from a contract position.

You will:

• Work with entrepreneurs to understand their idea and be able to design a Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
• Analyze NEC’s portfolio of technology and find which technologies can best be used with the entrepreneur's business idea and future product
• Communicate with both EIRs and NEC's researchers, implement technologies into their prototypes
• Use backend and ML skills to design the MVP.
• Deploy the solutions on cloud (AWS) as API.

You are a good candidate if you have:

• Solid experience working in the web
• 1-2 years of professional experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON and atleast one web framework e.g. React, Angular and other JavaScript frameworks
• Some Mobile development experience is a plus but not necessary.
• Familiar with the full software development lifecycle including unit testing, integration testing, etc
• 1-2 years of professional experience building commercial cloud applications and services
• 1+ year of professional experience with relational database (MySQL, PostgreSQL etc.)
• Experience with Agile development
• 1+ year API deployment experience using Flask webserver
• 1+ year experience deploying solutions on AWS. Must have experience with AWS Lambda, RDS, EC2, ECR, API Gateway and other AWS Services
• Solid experience using source control tools like Git
• Experience with the startup ecosystem is nice to have, whether it is as a founder, early-stage employee, or as a key member of a startup from seed to Series C
• The ability to tackle ambiguity and decide the best path forward
• An understanding of product lifecycle from ideation to launch

Note: If you only have some of these but feel you are a strong candidate, we would still like to meet you!

Learn more about us at https://nec-x.com.

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $45.00 - $60.00 per hour

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Palo Alto, CA 94306: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

• AWS: 1 year (Required)
• JavaScript: 2 years (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Palo Alto, CA 94306