Senior Front End Engineer

               Local or 100% Remote                      

Who we are 

Our mission at Point is to make homeownership more valuable and accessible to all. Every day, we explore, build, and iterate to create innovative financial products that improve the lives of our customers. Together, we’re creating the premier full-stack home equity platform to help current homeowners access their home wealth and aspiring ones realize their dream of homeownership. We recently raised a $120M Series C led by WestCap, and have raised over $170M overall from Andreessen Horowitz and other leading investors.

About the role

Do you care deeply about helping people thrive financially?

At Point, you’ll join an experienced team working to create a new approach to home equity financing. Along the way, we are introducing the world to a new asset class that helps people improve their finances and aligns the interests of investors and homeowners.

We are looking for experienced front-end engineers to build the platform that homeowners use to sell equity in their homes, underwriters use to make funding decisions, and investors use to track their investments.

Your responsibilities

You will be an integral part of a tight-knit product team ensuring that homeowners have a great experience with our product and improving the efficiency and accuracy of our underwriting.

Expect to:

• Turn wireframes and design mockups into pixel perfect web applications.
• Collaborate with back-end engineers, designers and product managers to create an engaging and transparent customer experience.
• Create tools that clearly communicate complex concepts and simplify information-intensive workflows.
• Enhance and extend our in-house design system to drive consistency and quality across our products.

Our front-end stack is based on the React ecosystem, integrated with a Ruby on Rails backend using Webpackmeta and running on Heroku.

 About you

• Passionate -- You care deeply about design consistency and understand the value of design as a tool for forming customer perception as well as improving the productivity and accuracy of our customer operations team.
• Experienced -- You have at least three years of front-end web development experience that has given you a keen eye for detail and a deep understanding of what it takes to ship quality software.
• Expert -- You use your comprehensive knowledge of HTML, CSS, and Javascript fundamentals along with a panoramic view of the rapidly evolving landscape of front-end development technologies to choose the right tool for the job.
• Innovative -- You take the initiative to find new ways to solve problems. You help the team understand your point of view and advocate for great solutions.
• Bonus points if you have a passion for design thinking, a hobby in the arts or working knowledge of After Effects or similar animation tools.
• Empathetic - you can put yourself in the homeowner’s shoes and take pride in helping them accomplish their goals. 
• If you have a keen eye for detail and are passionate about creating software that makes a meaningful difference to our customers’ financial health, you belong at Point.

Our benefits 

Generous health benefits

We provide medical, dental, and vision plans with options for flexible spending accounts (FSA) and health savings accounts (HSA). Point covers 99% of employee medical, dental, and vision premiums.

Unlimited paid time off

Recharge with unlimited paid time off and 10 company holidays. 

Flexible remote & onsite work

Our teams work from many different locations and time zones. We support fully remote work and also have an amazing in-person environment in our downtown Palo Alto, CA HQ. 

Fully paid parental leave

Point will true-up wages from state-applicable PFL earnings so that the employee’s total gross pay will be equivalent to 100% of their regular base pay, as well as two weeks of fully paid leave to be available after exhaustion of state PFL. 

For employees in states without Paid Family Leave, Point will provide up to 8 weeks of paid parental leave. 

In addition, all employees will receive 4 weeks of fully paid transition time. For four weeks after returning from parental leave, and following the use of all other paid leave benefits, you may work part-time, meaning two or three days per week, and receive 100% of regular base pay.

Financial wellness

We provide 401K retirement plans for employees as well as guaranteed life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage. Full-time employees have the opportunity to take ownership in the company through equity options.

Extra work/life benefits

We provide monthly stipends for internet, mobile plans, and a one-time home office reimbursement. 

Point is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We provide employment opportunities regardless of age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected class. Each individual at Point brings their own perspectives, work experiences, lifestyles, and cultures with them, and we believe that a more diverse team creates more innovative products, provides better services to customers, and helps us all grow and learn. 

The expected base salary range for Technical roles (e.g. Engineering, Product, Design) at this level within Point is $124,800 to $234,000 per year. This does not include any other potential components of the compensation package, including equity, benefits, and perks outlined above. At the launch of each position we benchmark compensation to the appropriate role and level utilizing competitive compensation data from various data sources as references. At the offer stage we use  the signal we received from our interviews coupled with your experience, location, and other job-related factors to determine final compensation.