About Vulcan Labs

Vulcan Labs is a software consultancy that works with companies who need to supercharge their development teams.

Some bullet points about us

• Remote first with a Cape Town office for when we want to get together.
• Looking for people who genuinely care about delivering high value software.
• You’ll work on solving business problems for customers on teams made up of people from customers, Vulcan Labs and other consultancies.
• Consultants have a high level of autonomy, we trust our people to make the right decisions.
• Shy away from projects that are bums on seats
• Will end a contract if we feel we are no longer providing value.
• Consider ourselves experts in React and Typescript (have been building production systems with these tools for as long as they've been around)
• Still a small <20 people consultancy but want to grow to ~30 people over the next two years (slow and steady wins the race).

Some exciting things

• Learn React from a team who's been building production systems with it from almost day 1
• Looking to grow our Elixir competency over the next few years as we believe it's rock solid
• We have data people with over 30 years of experience, if you want to level up your SQL and BI skills
• Work on lots of high volume distributed systems
• Own the entire solution(truly full-stack), you'll rarely just be pigeon holed into a single competency.
• Work with clients who trust and respect you.
• Build developer tools for us and clients to use.

Some things about yourself

• 6+ years of experience (4 if you've been a consultant)
• Have some consulting experience (not a must but a big plus)
• Have strong opinions held weakly
• Prefer composition over inheritance
• Ideally have some experience working with Product focused teams
• Have experience with one of the following: Javascript, Typescript, Ruby, Clojure, Elixir
• Based in a EMEA timezone
• Have worked in a full-stack role
• Think a lot about data and modelling
• Care about writing performant legible code
• Care about solving business problems
• Get excited when talking about tech problems
• Are Pragmatic
• Want to learn Elixir, Typescript, Clojure, Ruby
• Aren't dogmatic
• Prefer working in teams