Come work with us!

Job Description

Foko is looking for a Full Stack Developer to play a pivotal role in the success of our startup. Your contribution is key in building a great company and a great product. We’re a small but mighty team of entrepreneurs seeking passionate, like-minded individuals who can help us grow.

Full Stack Developer Responsibilities

• Work in a small backend team to build an innovative platform supporting both mobile and web applications that solve real business needs.
• Design and implement new features, as well as maintain existing features.
• Work closely with client and product group to deliver world-class innovative products.
• Work closely with Support and QA to ensure customer success.

About the Full Stack Developer

• Excellent knowledge of JavaScript
• Experience with node.js and MongoDB
• Ability to learn quickly
• Strong commitment to quality
• Familiar with Amazon AWS Cloud Platform
• Experience building and scaling RESTful API
• Advanced proficiency with web technologies

Skills this Full Stack Developer should have

• You have experience working with front-end developers
• You have experience contributing to open source projects
• You have had previous mobile development experience

Qualities we are looking for

• Curiosity
• Confidence in dealing with shifting priorities and requirements
• Mindfulness of your assumptions and how to work with them
• Willingness to fight for your convictions. Knowing when to accept defeat and when to keep pressing
• Resourcefulness in building your knowledge of the product and its requirements.

Perks at Foko

• Bursaries available to attend industry events
• A pack of adorable office dogs
• Stocked craft beer fridge
• Lunchtime Netflixing
• Informal atmosphere (jeans and t-shirts encouraged!)
• Flexible hours
• Competitive salary and benefits package

Why Foko?

Adorable office dog? Check. Stocked beer fridge? Check. Flexible work hours? Check check check. If you want to live the life of a fast-paced tech startup with some majorly audacious goals, you’ve come to the right spot. We’re a fun, informal team with serious ambitions and a strong focus on results.

Foko is a photo messaging app for retailer, with a customer roster of some of the biggest names in retail. As far as startups go, we’re a well-funded one led by successful Canadian serial entrepreneurs.

Start Date: Immediate
Position: Full Time
Location: Gatineau (Ottawa), Canada.

Please send resume to: careers@foko.co

Job Description

Foko is looking for an experienced (3+ years) Front End Developer to play a pivotal role in the success of our startup. Your contribution is key in building a great company and a great product.

Front End Developer Responsibilities

• Design, test and implement new features, as well as maintain existing features.
• Work closely with the Customer Success and QA to resolve customer issues
• Work closely with UX team and think like a user

About the Front End Developer

• You’re smart, love building things, have a lot energy, and love a startup environment
• You have a Bachelor’s degree in computer science (or equivalent)
• You have at least 3 years experience as a web and software developer
• You have a passion for great user experiences on mobile and the web and want to work with a people that makes this a priority
• You want to play a lead role in building a beautiful application used by thousands of retailers

Required skills for this Front End Developer

• You’ve used Javascript frameworks (Ember, Angular, React, etc) in a production environment
• You can model data in the blink of an eye
• You’ve worked with RESTful APIs
• You can use git (or other source control)
• You understand and use common design patterns
• You can mentor others

Skills this Front End Developer should have

• You have experience working on or with a back-end team
• You have experience contributing to open source projects
• You’ve had previous mobile development experience

Qualities we are looking for

• Curiosity
• Confidence in dealing with shifting priorities and requirements
• Mindfulness of your assumptions and how to work with them
• Willingness to fight for your convictions. Knowing when to accept defeat and when to keep pressing
• Resourcefulness in building your knowledge of the product and its requirements.

Perks at Foko

• Bursaries available to attend industry events
• A pack of adorable office dogs
• Stocked craft beer fridge
• Lunchtime Netflixing
• Informal atmosphere (jeans and t-shirts encouraged!)
• Flexible hours
• Competitive salary and benefits package

Why Foko?

Adorable office dog? Check. Stocked beer fridge? Check. Flexible work hours? Check check check. If you want to live the life of a fast-paced tech startup with some majorly audacious goals, you’ve come to the right spot. We’re a fun, informal team with serious ambitions and a strong focus on results.

Foko is a photo messaging app for retailer, with a customer roster of some of the biggest names in retail. As far as startups go, we’re a well-funded one led by successful Canadian serial entrepreneurs.

Start Date: Immediate
Position: Full Time
Location: Gatineau (Ottawa), Canada.

Please send resume to: careers@foko.co

WHAT YOUR DAY COULD LOOK LIKE

Grab a coffee and join your team stand-up. Fill the team in on your progress from yesterday and what you’re going to tackle today. Open your favourite IDE (Android Studio, right?) and start your next task. Later, pepper the product team with questions, comments, and scenarios on some upcoming specs. Head over to the designers desk and suggest a behaviour change. Lunch time! Catch the latest episode of John Oliver with the team or take a meditative stroll down by the river (watch out of for the roving gangs of geese). Back at your desk, add a few of your favourite songs to the Foko playlist on Spotify and hopefully you’ll hear it over the office speakers that afternoon. Now, back to testing, coding and repeating. It’s 3pm which means it’s time to plank! Engage that core! Join the team leads for a quick bug triage to get priorities aligned for the next release. Finish off what you were working on and prepare for what’s coming up tomorrow.

Crack a beer and update your work-log in JIRA.

QUALITIES WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Curiosity
• Confidence in dealing with shifting priorities and requirements.
• Mindfulness of your assumptions and how to work with them.
• Willingness to fight for your convictions. Knowing when to accept defeat and when to keep pressing.
• Resourcefulness in building your knowledge of the product and its requirements.

DESIRED SKILLS

• Experience developing Android apps
• Java development
• Experience with APIs over the network, i.e. HTTP, SOAP and REST
• Building and releasing software
• Working in a fast paced start-up environment

Start Date: Immediate
Position: Full Time
Location: Gatineau (Ottawa), Canada.

Please send resume to: careers@foko.co

Help Us Grow!

Foko Retail is looking for an energetic results-driven person to help grow our sales organization. You will be starting on the ground floor of a fast growing tech startup – we may be small, but we’re mighty, and already working with some of the biggest retailers in the world (think Whole Foods, Nike, Club Monaco, New Balance, Converse, Fabletics and more). We want to grow, and for this, we need your help!

The Sales Representative will play a key role in achieving Foko Retail’s growth objectives.

We know our target market, companies and buyer roles, we have a great story and solid product offering – and now we need your help in reaching the right contacts, and communicating Foko Retail’s value.

The successful candidate will be a team player who is able to work effectively alone as well as part of a team. You’re full of vim and vigour, want to learn a ton about business and sales, and are keen to work hard and expand your skill set.

Others that were successful in this role often had previous sales roles that were sometimes totally unrelated to the tech industry, such as real estate, retail sales associates, and even Starbuck baristas (seriously – our past few super superstar sales reps were all trained at the ‘Bucks). We’re not looking for tech-specific selling experience, we’re looking for someone with the raw talent and energy, who is great with people, super organized, and highly results-driven – as long as you bring those qualities, we can train you from there.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify potential customers through web research, social and other online channels
• Assist in the sales process – from discovery, through to negotiation, and deal closing
• Develop and maintain material to assist customers in their decision process
• Give clear and concise product demonstrations to prospects
• Assist in formulating new business strategies and implement tactical plans to achieve the assigned quota

Skills and Experience

• Highly organized, keeps track of her/his to do list. Basically someone that makes lists when they go grocery shopping (no fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants-ers)
• Highly result oriented and goal motivated
• Highly comfortable with social network technologies like Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook and Whatsapp
• Excitement and enthusiasm about the offering and the problem we solve
  Strong communicator – written and oral
  Some sales experience (enough to know you love the work)

WHY FOKO RETAIL?

Foko Retail isn’t your average tech startup.

Yeah, we’ve got all those cool startup perks – office dogs, stocked craft beer fridge, cereal bar and weekly in-house yoga – but we’re so much more than that. We are fun, informal team who genuinely cares about our coworkers, customers, and product.

We may still be relatively small, but we have some huge goals, and an even brighter future. With 80% growth year-over-year, and a client roster of some of the biggest names in retail, we’re quickly becoming the ones to watch in the retail tech space.

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to careers@fokoretail.com