About Chance
Chance thesis is simple: “engagement at work is a necessary condition for performance at work, and performance at work is a necessary condition for social mobility. And engagement is a function of a person’s authentic sense of purpose aligning with rewarding work”.
The product enables a user to participate in a 3 month program during which they experience self-reflection, exploration, and human coaching in order to choose the work that aligns with their aspirations, skills and personal context.
Pioneer of the “PsyTech”, every step of the Chance program is adapted to each individual, thanks to real-time data and behavioural analysis. It designs an individualised program, driving the participant to make a series of informed decisions leading to a more fulfilling career path.
Through auto-coaching, the talent is guided to reflect more deeply about the way they think: who they are, how to make choices, what has meaning, what does not. The talent will then be recommended different career paths that correspond to her aspirations, leading to a methodical exploration phase to make the final choice. Chance accompanies the talent until she actually reaches her new professional objective. Video-coaching sessions complete each step of the program: a professional coach, one-on-one tailor-made sessions, to help gently break down the psychological barriers that may exist and have been identified during the self-reflection phase.
Job description
By the nature of Chance service, we develop a triple-sided marketplace infrastructure to drive the interactions of our Talents (customers), Coaches and internal Customer Success.
The solution is currently web based, providing 3 applications and 2 main backends. We plan to start the move to native applications by the end of the year.
During the last months, we have been validating our business model and the time to scale it has come. For that reason, we are looking for talented engineers able to come up with powerful abstractions to allow the product to support an increasing number of both features and users. As a senior software engineer, your challenges will be broad in scope and will lay the foundations for a system that will provide cutting-edge digital experiences to hundreds of thousands of people all over the world.
We value ownership and adaptability. Nothing is someone else’s problem, we act as a team. For that, we made TypeScript our main language to ease the context switch. By the end of your onboarding, you will become owner of crucial pieces of the Chance software.
We value reliability and code quality a lot, we build dead simple and well tested services. This is a core value of our team. We always prefer to be investing a few more hours in reviews and testing rather than chasing bugs on production. We expect you to embrace and contribute to this mindset.
About the team organization
We decided to structure our tech department around full-stack and backend profiles. Our FS engineers are frontend major, backend minor. You will be responsible to drive the main architectural decisions to provide the FS developers the best APIs and patterns for them to contribute efficiently.
To execute our work, we run a 2 weeks homemade framework inspired by SCRUM principles with some adaptations due to the particularity of our business: managing content production and software development.
On a daily basis, you will be working closely with our Product Managers to understand the business needs ; with the Customer Success team to handle issues and provide solutions ; with the engineers to ensure coherence and integration with other codebases.
Our stack
A multi-sided web platform based of the following technologies:
Frontend: Typescript, ReactJS, GraphQL, Styled-components, Storybook
Backend: Typescript, NodeJS/Express, PostgreSQL/TypeORM, GraphQL
Being a developer at Chance means:
Your tasks and responsibilities in a nutshell
What we offer:
About Us
Chance was created in San Francisco, after the Nobel Peace prize laureate Muhammad Yunus met with its cofounders Ludovic de Gromard and Clémence Coghlan and is backed up by Google.org since its inception. 18 months ago, Chance won Facebook France Start-Up award and moved its headquarters to Paris at Station F, in Facebook incubator, to focus on the French market. Chance’s team is made up of 25 people from 7 different nationalities, and a community of 100 partner coaches. Its new office is in Paris, 2nd arrondissement.
Chance raised a €5.6M Series A in April 2020, led by the british Impact Investing Fund Zulu Group, from Alexander Asseily, founder of Jawbone, along with world-class investors, Google.org and the French Ministry of Labour.
With Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus as Honorary Chairman, Chance has gathered renowned public figures in its Scientific committee, such as Robert Dilts, international reference on coaching, and the former French Minister of Education and former President of the International Bureau of Labour, Gilles de Robien. Francoise Gri, former CEO of Manpower France and IBM France sits at Chance Board along with Alexander Asseily.
Chance recently obtained reference by the French government as a service that can be financed directly through the French Personal Training Credits (CPF).
As of today, Chance has served over 8,000 users, 70% of whom were women.
What we expect from you:
Given the current situation with the Corona virus and in order to prevent the virus from further spreading, all our interviews will take place remotely for now. Thank you for your understanding.
Chance has the ambition to become the first social unicorn in history. That’s why we are looking for candidates who are highly driven by social impact, highly motivated and highly skilled.
The full process will include 3-4 interviews for you to get to know the team better.
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