Designer & Front End Developer

You may be familiar with the Stanford Duck Syndrome: calm on the surface, but paddling furiously to stay afloat.  Together, we'll create a product with similar DNA.  An approachable client interface that exposes only the critical pieces to users, abstracting away as much of the nitty-gritty as possible.

This might be a great fit if you want to create something with the look and polish of a flashy consumer app while flexing your very real CS chops in thinking through complex data structures and interactions on the backend.  Huge plus if you can contribute to our frontend code base in React.

Some of the problems you might work on:

• We replace many functions that would otherwise require SQL to run through a combination of interaction techniques and spreadsheet functions.  We've started off with a few of the most commonly used queries (SELECT...FROM...WHERE...GROUP BY...).  Can we map out all SQL functions into an intuitive user interface?


• We enable users to query data from all APIs, not just internal databases.  GraphQL allows us to quickly run these queries in a scalable manner on the server-side.  But what does a scalable, flexible visual querying interface look like for the end user?


• APIs may seem ubiquitous in today's day and age, but the vast majority of end users have never heard of an API and don't know how they could use one.  How do we design a great onboarding process that provides immediate and obvious value to these users out of the gate?