Senior Frontend Engineer About the role As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you'll be an influential member of our product and engineering team, leading R&D investigations into candidate product and technology applications, building new products from 0 to 1, and working with an interested and inspired team to continuously enhance and scale our category-defining platform and the systems that support it.
You'll collaborate closely with fellow engineers, product managers, sales and operations leaders to tackle real business, technology and customer-facing problems that will have a direct, and highly visible, impact on the success of Client products and the families that depend on them.
**This is a hands-on software engineering role.
You will join a small team of experienced engineers that are interested in the "why", care about quality, and love to ship product.
What you'll do: ? Add to an engineering team and culture with a strong bias for impact and getting stuff out into the world ? Our team loves to ship software – we are looking for passionate collaborators who love to build, and use technology to solve complex problems ? Bring expertise, opinions and technical leadership to influence technology selection, systems design and software development practice ? Communicate clearly and persuasively to influence outcomes and inspire action ? Contribute fresh ideas and a growth mindset to elevate standards for code quality, testing, deployment and developer mentorship ? Bring something new to our small R&D team – help us continue to raise the skill, knowledge and experience level of our team What we're looking for: ? +6 years of professional experience in software engineering, building customer-facing software (startup experience preferred) ? BA/BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience ? Proven track record working with our technology stack: Node, Typescript, React, Terraform, Github Actions, AWS (preferred; not required) ? Attention to technical excellence, and proficiency with object-oriented programming and distributed systems ? Demonstrated ability to balance pragmatism and innovation in your technical decisionmaking to maximize ROI and manage risk ? Proficiency unpacking business problems into workable, logical concerns, and communicating complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders ? Ability to confidently articulate the pros and cons of available solutions and offer thoughtful recommendations that demonstrate your understanding of project and user goals, incentives and constraints ? Familiarity with modern DevOps, cloud native software development, accessibility and security standards, patterns and best practices ? Interest and ability to pair, mentor and inspire other developers through action ? Capacity to design and implement efficient RESTful APIs and microservices ? Experience scaling applications with containers and container orchestration frameworks ? Exposure to leadership or mentorship roles, particularly on a development team ? Previously built and deployed 12-factor apps as part of a collaborative project ? C1 level English; Experience in English-speaking development environments.
*We aren't expecting you to be an expert in everything described above.
If you check most of the boxes, and are ready to roll up your sleeves and learn, we'd love to hear from you.
