CAREERS
WORK AT CHANI
We're a queer, feminist-led tech and media company on a mission to make astrology and its wisdom accessible to everyone as a tool for self-discovery, mindfulness, and healing.
We also offer great benefits and perks for employees:
- Fully covered health, dental and vision insurance;
- 401k with a 5% match;
- Unlimited vacation plus a vacation stipend;
- Gender-based violence paid and protected leave;
- Unlimited menstrual leave for people with uteruses;
- An annual tech stipend;
- A personal and professional growth stipend; and
- A stipend to help you build wealth.
Folks who are queer, trans, non-binary, Black, Indigenous, people of color, disabled, parents, are/have been system-impacted, are immigrants, and anyone who has experienced systemic oppression and/or gender-based violence are encouraged to apply.
CURRENT OPENINGS
We have an opportunity for a Lead Full Stack Developer to join our team at Chani Nicholas Incorporated to help sustain and build our next chapter.
About Us
Chani Nicholas Incorporated was founded by Chani Nicholas, a Los Angeles-based, Webby award-winning, NY Times-bestselling author and astrologer.
We are a queer, feminist-led tech and media company on a mission to make astrology, and its wisdom, accessible to everyone as a tool for self-discovery, mindfulness, and healing.
The Job
You eschew the “brogrammer” culture in favor of a forward-thinking and collaborative environment where technology is there to serve the needs of your users. You are a team player who can also work independently without a lot of direction, effectively taking requests from marketing, design, and other leadership and turning them into functional and beautiful production ready app features.
You are a dedicated software craftsperson and product lead who cares deeply about best practices and what it takes to write and maintain great code and push forward with innovative concepts. You have high emotional intelligence, an abundance mindset, able to effectively balance the needs of the creative and technical.
You will develop and be responsible for building and updating both front and back end applications and systems, finding and squashing bugs, and maintaining a clean and elegant codebase. We are building our Android app with React Native, however, you must be able to work with any necessary native integrations. You will help lead the development of an astrology API.
You do not have to be an astrologer or familiar with astrology right now to apply, but you should be willing and able to learn the language of astrology so that your engineering reflects astrology’s logic.
Technical Skills Required
3 – 5+ years in mobile app development with strong React Native, Android (Java/Kotlin), and SDKs experience
3 – 5+ years in web app development with strong React and JavaScript experience
3 – 5+ years in backend development with strong PostgreSQL, Node, and Express experience
Fluency with Android and React Native tool ecosystems for development, testing, debugging, and performance benchmarking (Visual Studio, Expo, React Developer Tools, Google Play Store)
Extensive hands-on experience creating custom UI controls, consuming RESTful APIs, GraphQL, designing protocols, animations, and performance optimization
Familiarity with building a full CRUD, REST API from scratch
A disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation and code structure in a team environment
An excellent understanding of best practices for concurrency and threading
A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques
Strong understanding of data structures & algorithms
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Bonus
Experience with other cross platform frameworks, iOS Development, DevOps, TDD, and agile methodologies
How to Apply
To apply, please send your cover letter, resume, portfolio, and a list of 3 references (names, relationship, position, and email address) to Sonya Passi at tech@chaninicholas.com with the subject line “Lead Full Stack Developer Application.”
Folks who are queer, trans, non-binary, Black, Indigenous, people of color, disabled, parents, are/have been system-impacted, are immigrants, and anyone who has experienced systemic oppression and/or gender-based violence are encouraged to apply.
The Interview Process
- The team reviews your portfolio and resume.
- A member of our team will hop on the phone with you for 15 minutes to assess your skill set and ask, “Why Chani app?”
- You’ll participate in a 1-hour pair programming session with the Director of Engineering. You’ll be asked to share your screen and work through coding challenges.
- You’ll participate in a group interview with the Director of Engineering, Director of Technology, and Director of UX.
- You’ll participate in a group interview with the President and CEO.
- The team reviews all feedback.
- We make a final decision and notify you.
Location
Los Angeles, CA preferred, but must be willing to travel once every quarter to Los Angeles
Details
Applications reviewed on a rolling basis
Anticipated start date: November 1, 2021
Employment Type
Exempt, full-time position
Salary and Benefits
$90k – $110k (commensurate with experience, with opportunity for advancement in the first year)
We offer excellent benefits and work perks, including flexible work from home, unlimited paid vacation, paid sick leave, access to a variety of completely covered health, dental, and vision plans, life insurance, and 401(k) plan with a 5% match.
Position reports to
Director of Engineering
We have an opportunity for a Full Stack Developer to join our team at Chani Nicholas Incorporated to help sustain and build our next chapter.
About Us
Chani Nicholas Incorporated was founded by Chani Nicholas, a Los Angeles-based, Webby award-winning, NY Times-bestselling author and astrologer.
We are a queer, feminist-led tech and media company on a mission to make astrology, and its wisdom, accessible to everyone as a tool for self-discovery, mindfulness, and healing.
The Job
You eschew the “brogrammer” culture in favor of a forward-thinking and collaborative environment where technology is there to serve the needs of your users. You are a team player who can also work independently without a lot of direction, effectively taking requests from marketing, design, and other leadership and turning them into functional and beautiful production ready app features.
You are a dedicated software craftsperson and product lead who cares deeply about best practices and what it takes to write and maintain great code and push forward with innovative concepts. You have high emotional intelligence, an abundance mindset, able to effectively balance the needs of the creative and technical.
You will develop and be responsible for building and updating both front and back end applications and systems, finding and squashing bugs, and maintaining a clean and elegant codebase. We are building our Android app with React Native, however, you must be able to work with any necessary native integrations. You will help lead the development of an astrology API.
You do not have to be an astrologer or familiar with astrology right now to apply, but you should be willing and able to learn the language of astrology so that your engineering reflects astrology’s logic.
Technical Skills Required
1 – 3+ years in mobile app development with strong React Native, Android (Java/Kotlin), and SDKs experience
1 – 3+ years in web app development with strong React and JavaScript experience
1 – 3+ years in backend development with strong PostgreSQL, Node, and Express experience
Fluency with Android and React Native tool ecosystems for development, testing, debugging, and performance benchmarking (Visual Studio, Expo, React Developer Tools, Google Play Store)
Extensive hands-on experience creating custom UI controls, consuming RESTful APIs, GraphQL, designing protocols, animations, and performance optimization
Familiarity with building a full CRUD, REST API from scratch
A disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation and code structure in a team environment
An excellent understanding of best practices for concurrency and threading
A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques
Strong understanding of data structures & algorithms
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Bonus
Experience with other cross platform frameworks, iOS Development, DevOps, TDD, and agile methodologies
How to Apply
To apply, please send your cover letter, resume, portfolio, and a list of 3 references (names, relationship, position, and email address) to Sonya Passi at tech@chaninicholas.com with the subject line “Full Stack Developer Application.”
Folks who are queer, trans, non-binary, Black, Indigenous, people of color, disabled, parents, are/have been system-impacted, are immigrants, and anyone who has experienced systemic oppression and/or gender-based violence are encouraged to apply.
The Interview Process
- The team reviews your portfolio and resume.
- A member of our team will hop on the phone with you for 15 minutes to assess your skill set and ask, “Why Chani app?”
- You’ll participate in a 1-hour pair programming session with the Director of Engineering. You’ll be asked to share your screen and work through coding challenges.
- You’ll participate in a group interview with the Director of Engineering, Director of Technology, and Director of UX.
- You’ll participate in a group interview with the President and CEO.
- The team reviews all feedback.
- We make a final decision and notify you.
Location
Los Angeles, CA preferred, but must be willing to travel once every quarter to Los Angeles
Details
Applications reviewed on a rolling basis
Anticipated start date: November 1, 2021
Employment Type
Exempt, full-time position
Salary and Benefits
$70k - $90k (commensurate with experience, with opportunity for advancement in the first year)
We offer excellent benefits and work perks, including flexible work from home, unlimited paid vacation, paid sick leave, access to a variety of completely covered health, dental, and vision plans, life insurance, and 401(k) plan with a 5% match.
Position reports to
Director of Engineering
We have an opportunity for a Lead Android Developer to join our team at Chani Nicholas Incorporated to help sustain and build our next chapter.
About Us
Chani Nicholas Incorporated was founded by Chani Nicholas, a Los Angeles-based, Webby award-winning, NY Times-bestselling author and astrologer.
We are a queer, feminist-led tech and media company on a mission to make astrology, and its wisdom, accessible to everyone as a tool for self-discovery, mindfulness, and healing.
The Job
You eschew the “brogrammer” culture in favor of a forward-thinking and collaborative environment where technology is there to serve the needs of your users. You are a team player who can also work independently without a lot of direction, effectively taking requests from marketing, design, and other leadership and turning them into functional and beautiful production ready app features.
You are a dedicated software craftsperson and product lead who cares deeply about best practices and what it takes to write and maintain great code and push forward with innovative concepts. You have high emotional intelligence, an abundance mindset, able to effectively balance the needs of the creative and technical.
You will develop and be responsible for building and updating Android compatible applications and systems, finding and squashing bugs, and maintaining a clean and elegant codebase. We are open to using cross platform technologies for our Android buildout, however, you must be able to work with any necessary native integrations and lead the development of making the app available to Android users.
You do not have to be an astrologer or familiar with astrology right now to apply - but you should be willing & able to learn the language of astrology so that your engineering reflects astrology’s logic.
Technical Skills Required
3 – 5+ in mobile app development with strong Android experience (Java/Kotlin) and SDKs
Fluency with Android tool ecosystem for development, testing, debugging, and performance benchmarking (Android Studio/Visual Studio, Material Design and/or any other related IDEs or local development tools)
Extensive hands-on experience creating custom UI controls, consuming RESTful APIs, designing protocols, animations, and performance optimization
A disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation and code structure in a team environment
An excellent understanding of best practices for concurrency and threading
A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques
Strong understanding of data structures & algorithms
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Bonus
Experience with other mobile platforms, iOS Development, React Native, TDD and agile methodologies
Experience implementing and maintaining containers (Docker)
How to Apply
To apply, please send your cover letter, resume, portfolio, and a list of 3 references (names, relationship, position, and email address) to Sonya Passi at tech@chaninicholas.com with the subject line “Lead Android Developer Application.”
Folks who are queer, trans, non-binary, Black, Indigenous, people of color, parents, are/have been system-impacted, have different abilities, are immigrants, and anyone who has experienced systemic oppression and/or gender-based violence are encouraged to apply.
The Interview Process
- The team reviews your portfolio and resume.
- A member of our team will hop on the phone with you for 15 minutes to assess your skill set and ask, “Why Chani app?”
- You’ll participate in a 1-hour pair programming session with the Director of Engineering. You’ll be asked to share your screen and work through coding challenges.
- You’ll participate in a group interview with the Director of Engineering, Director of Technology, and Director of UX.
- You’ll participate in a group interview with the President and CEO.
- The team reviews all feedback.
- We make a final decision and notify you.
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Details
Applications reviewed on a rolling basis
Anticipated start date: November 1, 2021
Employment Type
Exempt, full-time position
Salary and Benefits
$90k – $110k (commensurate with experience, with opportunity for advancement in the first year)
We offer excellent benefits and work perks, including flexible work from home, unlimited paid vacation, paid sick leave, access to a variety of completely covered health, dental, and vision plans, life insurance, and 401(k) plan with a 5% match.
Position reports to
Director of Engineering
We have an opportunity for an Android Developer to join our team at Chani Nicholas Incorporated to help sustain and build our next chapter.
About Us
Chani Nicholas Incorporated was founded by Chani Nicholas, a Los Angeles-based, Webby award-winning, NY Times-bestselling author and astrologer.
We are a queer, feminist-led tech and media company on a mission to make astrology, and its wisdom, accessible to everyone as a tool for self-discovery, mindfulness, and healing.
The Job
You eschew the “brogrammer” culture in favor of a forward-thinking and collaborative environment where technology is there to serve the needs of your users. You are a team player who can also work independently without a lot of direction, effectively taking requests from marketing, design, and other leadership and turning them into functional and beautiful production ready app features.
You are a dedicated software craftsperson and product lead who cares deeply about best practices and what it takes to write and maintain great code and push forward with innovative concepts. You have high emotional intelligence, an abundance mindset, able to effectively balance the needs of the creative and technical.
You will develop and be responsible for building and updating Android compatible applications and systems, finding and squashing bugs, and maintaining a clean and elegant codebase. We are open to using cross platform technologies for our Android buildout, however, you must be able to work with any necessary native integrations and lead the development of making the app available to Android users.
You do not have to be an astrologer or familiar with astrology right now to apply - but you should be willing & able to learn the language of astrology so that your engineering reflects astrology’s logic.
Technical Skills Required
1 – 3+ years in mobile app development with strong Android experience (Java/Kotlin) and SDKs
Fluency with Android tool ecosystem for development, testing, debugging, and performance benchmarking (Android Studio/Visual Studio, Material Design and/or any other related IDEs or local development tools)
Extensive hands-on experience creating custom UI controls, consuming RESTful APIs, designing protocols, animations, and performance optimization
A disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation and code structure in a team environment
An excellent understanding of best practices for concurrency and threading
A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques
Strong understanding of data structures & algorithms
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Bonus
Experience with other mobile platforms, iOS Development, React Native, TDD and agile methodologies
Experience implementing and maintaining containers (Docker)
How to Apply
To apply, please send your cover letter, resume, portfolio, and a list of 3 references (names, relationship, position, and email address) to Sonya Passi at tech@chaninicholas.com with the subject line “Android Developer Application.”
Folks who are queer, trans, non-binary, Black, Indigenous, people of color, parents, are/have been system-impacted, have different abilities, are immigrants, and anyone who has experienced systemic oppression and/or gender-based violence are encouraged to apply.
The Interview Process
- The team reviews your portfolio and resume.
- A member of our team will hop on the phone with you for 15 minutes to assess your skill set and ask, “Why Chani app?”
- You’ll participate in a 1-hour pair programming session with the Director of Engineering. You’ll be asked to share your screen and work through coding challenges.
- You’ll participate in a group interview with the Director of Engineering, Director of Technology, and Director of UX.
- You’ll participate in a group interview with the President and CEO.
- The team reviews all feedback.
- We make a final decision and notify you.
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Details
Applications reviewed on a rolling basis
Anticipated start date: November 1, 2021
Employment Type
Exempt, full-time position
Salary and Benefits
$70 – 90k (commensurate with experience, with opportunity for advancement in the first year)
We offer excellent benefits and work perks, including flexible work from home, unlimited paid vacation, paid sick leave, access to a variety of completely covered health, dental, and vision plans, life insurance, and 401(k) plan with a 5% match.
Position reports to
Director of Engineering
We have an exciting opportunity for an Astrology Writer to join our team at Chani Nicholas Incorporated to help us sustain and build our next chapter.
About Us
Chani Nicholas Incorporated was founded by Chani Nicholas, a Los Angeles-based, Webby award-winning, NY Times-bestselling author and astrologer.
We are a queer, feminist-led tech and media company on a mission to make astrology, and its wisdom, accessible to everyone as a tool for self-discovery, mindfulness, and healing.
Learn more at chaninicholas.com.
The Job
We are seeking a talented, creative and well-versed traditional astrologer and experienced writer with proven success in creating innovative and engaging content, honing a brand’s voice, and developing/editing regular astrological content. The Astrology Writer will support the company through writing content for current transits as well as natal chart interpretations, devising interesting and educational threads for social media, and copy-editing content for the CHANI App and newsletters.
As a member of the content team, you will work closely with the Director of Content, the Social Media and Digital Content Manager, designers, editors, and the President to create content that encourages our readers’ self-acceptance, healing, and growth.
The ideal candidate is an exceptional writer who is comfortable completing creative projects promptly and moving seamlessly onto new assignments. You understand how to marry the traditions of astrology with inclusive, intersectional feminist thinking, issues of equity, social justice, and trauma-informed language. You possess a deep understanding of traditional astrology and can distill complex ideas into fresh, fun, creative, and compelling content.
What You’ll Do
- Write and edit pithy, informational content for the current astrological transits;
- Write and edit astrologically accurate, engaging, and educational threads for social media;
- Write and edit natal chart interpretations; and
- Assist in copyediting needs for weekly and permanent content.
Who We’re Looking For
- 4+ years of professional experience operating in written content creation, and/or study in journalism, publishing, or media;
- 3+ years of studying traditional astrology;
- Strong writing and editing skills, with good storytelling instincts;
- Experience in breaking down large content into different formats, such as social media, newsletters, website content etc.
- Excellent communication and listening skills;
- Ability to explain complex information in a way that anyone can understand;
- Ability to maintain brand voice;
- A proactive, highly organized, self-motivated work ethic, with a willingness to learn;
- Enthusiasm, creativity, patience, good judgment and flexibility in their work;
- Commitment to the highest standards of integrity;
- Confidence to take initiative and make decisions proactively;
- Strong people skills, emotional intelligence, and ability to work well with others as well as alone;
- Ability to work a normal schedule of Monday through Friday during normal business hours; and
- Ability to work in front of a computer screen and/or perform typing for approximately 100% of a typical working day.
Preference For Candidates With
- Basic knowledge of Google Workspace;
- Experience writing content for social media; and
- Knowledge of electional astrology.
What We Offer
- $80k-$90k salary (commensurate with experience, with opportunity for advancement in the first year);
- Fully covered health, dental and vision insurance;
- 401k with a 5% match;
- Flexible work from home policy;
- 4 months paid parental leave;
- Unlimited, flexible paid vacation, subject to approval, plus a vacation stipend;
- Gender-based violence paid and protected leave;
- Unlimited menstrual leave for people with uteruses;
- An annual tech stipend;
- A personal and professional growth stipend; and
- A stipend to help you build wealth.
How to Apply
To apply, please send your cover letter, resume, list of 3 references (names, position, relationship, and email address), and sample of astrological writing to Eliza Robertson at careers@chaninicholas.com with the subject line “Astrology Writer.”
Folks who are queer, trans, non-binary, Black, Indigenous, people of color, disabled, parents, are/have been system-impacted, are immigrants, and anyone who has experienced systemic oppression and/or gender-based violence are encouraged to apply.
Location
- Los Angeles, CA preferred, but must be willing to travel once a month to Los Angeles
Details
- Applications reviewed on a rolling basis, beginning on July 25, 2021
- Anticipated start date: September 1, 2021
Employment Type
- Exempt, full-time position (40 hours per week)
Position reports to
- Director of Content