Node.js Language Owner

Posted by Justin Reese

Company Details

Heroku

Anywhere - United States

Remote Ok

FTE only

Description

Heroku’s Languages team owns the technical implementation and community experience for all of our languages: Ruby, Node, Python, PHP, the JVM, and Go. Each language has an owner who shepherds that language forward, both internally within Heroku and Salesforce, and externally in the open source community.

We’re looking for an experienced JavaScript engineer to join our small team as the Node.js Language Owner. Language owners combine hard technical skills with soft skills including writing, collaboration, and evangelism - all with a very high degree of autonomy.

The most important qualifications for this position are JavaScript expertise, empathy, and self-direction.

Specifically:

Deep understanding of writing, running, maintaining, and debugging Node.js applications.

Ability to communicate effectively in person and in writing as a presenter, documenter, and troubleshooter.

The self-discipline and perspective to prioritize the needs of the platform, and then see them through.

The ability to collaborate both with other experts and with less experienced developers.

​You will be ultimately responsible for the holistic experience of Node.js on Heroku, including:

Maintaining the Node.js Buildpack and related services.

Writing and editing articles, how-to’s, documentation, and examples.

Traveling to share your technical expertise at conferences and events.

Providing final-tier Node.js support.

Gathering product feedback to improve the Heroku platform for Node.js developers.

Working with the open source community.

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