Flexible work arrangement

Our team members have a flexible work relationship with Frei that allows them to work as much or as little as they want. All our team members are well compensated, with a starting hourly rate equivalent to a full-time position in Norway (where we have two physical offices, and where our clients are).

How we work

Project work

• Methodology: We have an agile approach to projects and collaboration without following any specific framework to the letter.

• Meeting cadence: Depending on the type and size of our projects and collaborations with clients, we typically have 15-minute stand-ups with the client 1-2 days a week and short daily syncs with the team. The frequency depends on what makes sense for the project at the time.

• Team size: We usually have two developers on each project for a better dynamic and lower risk, working with 1-2 of our designers or the design team at one of our partner agencies.

• Project responsibilities: Most developers on our team are responsible for one main project at a time and maintenance/upgrades on a few other client projects.

• Variation: We do our best to make your work life interesting and challenging and to adapt to your preference of sticking with long-term projects vs. joining in on something new.

Requirements

• Demonstrable recent experience developing with HubSpot APIs, HubML & HubDB.

  - HubSpot is our bread an butter.

• Good working knowledge of HubSpot workflows.

  - These are our first port of call, you need to know their strengths and weaknesses.

• Experience connecting HubSpot to external systems, using sync-agents, APIs and webhooks.

  - All of our clients need to connect to something.

• Solid javascript & NodeJS skills.

  - This is our preferred language and we use it for most projects

• Creative and independent approach to problem solving.

  - We like trusting people to figure things out.
  

• Attention to detail as well as the bigger picture.

  - Full stack, all the way.

• Above all, we prioritize excellent communication skills.

  - Who doesn’t? Enough said 🙂

It's a plus if

• You speak/read Norwegian (not strictly required).

  - The more Norwegian you can understand, the less one of us has to translate.

• You’re happy with a variable workload and flexible working hours.

  - We’re not always fully booked, we can’t guarantee a full-time position, and we understand that suits some people better than others. We’re also flexible.

Communication

It deserves its own heading. We say that "communication is half the job" of a developer. It's such an integrated part of all we do: writing and talking with your team, client meetings, video tutorials, commit messages, knowing when and how to ask for help.

Here's one great example of what we view as "good communication" at Frei:

The finesse is just beyond... ✅ humor like no other, ✅ text formatting to control focus, ✅ high quality of work behind the scenes.

Dorian's a great example of the people we want to attract and the culture we have at Frei. Our culture is our secret sauce and a major reason clients partner with and stay with us.

Hiring process

Here are the steps from reading this to working with Frei:

1. Complete this form like a true champion: Prove your communication skills and try not to rely on AI to sound awesome, because you need to be a better human than a machine ;)

2. Introductory chat: If your work from step 1 looks promising, we will invite you to a 30-minute introductory chat to get to know you.

3. Technical interview: If we find you a solid cultural fit for the team, you move right on to the end boss, our CTO Dorian. You'll spend an hour together mainly focusing on a project you're proud of, presenting the UI and codebase.

4. Trial workday: We'll spend a full workday together on a test project to get a feel of our work dynamic.

5. Trial month: If we're all happy with the first day of collaboration, we'll go on for a month.

6. Welcome to the team!