Senior Front End Software Engineer

About Howl 

Howl is the creator platform for social commerce. We build tools for brands and creators to sell more products across every social platform, together.

In the last 10 years, the $20bn influencer ecommerce market has become a critical part of the retail industry.  Social commerce is a new $1.2 trillion market opportunity (link) and requires new tools, protocols, and technologies.  

Howl allows creators and brands to run experiments on what products to talk about and how best to talk about them. Paired with data delivered at the speed of social, creator financing for products, and feedback loops delivered in a beautifully designed platform, Howl takes the guesswork out of selling products on social platforms.

Howl’s mission is to reduce barriers for creators and brands to build social commerce businesses.  We are a remote-first company with a diverse team that reflects our vision. Our beta launched in mid 2022 and powers social commerce for creators and brands across beauty, gaming, home, fashion, and consumer electronics for both industry leaders like Best Buy, Samsung, Target and cult favorites like Cariuma, Kosas, and Youth to the People. We are a Series A company backed by investors including HighlandX and NEA. 

For more information, visit www.planethowl.com.

What You’ll Do

• Code in the latest & greatest of front-end tech (React, Typescript, Node.js, Next.JS, GraphQL, etc.)
• Be one with agility in many-times-a-day production deployments with modern Ci/CD practices (feature flags!)
• Work alongside and help lead fellow engineers to develop ever-improving software standards and practices
• Walk the line between product requirements & customer feedback with confidence - and know when to push back
• Provide technical and design leadership within an engineering team.
• Master the code base, toolchain, and development processes of a product team.
• Work with product management partners to articulate requirements and agree on designs for components.
• Negotiate interfaces between your components and others in the Howl system.
• Design software components and subsystems for Howl's products or infrastructure.
• Implement high-quality software components and subsystems with your team.
• Document the architecture of your designs at the block diagram level.
• Write technical documents as needed to memorialize design and implementation decisions and rationales.
• Drive implementation of automated testing for your components.
  

What You Bring to the Role

• You’re not scared to move quick & break things - and fix them just as fast : )
• Keeping your up-to-date software dev edge is a personal practice
• Learning new things and trying new ways is exciting and refreshing
• You see mentoring, guiding, and answering your team’s questions as equally valuable to your own heads-down time
• Carrying heavy personally-set expectations and exceeding them motivates you
• The software development life cycle (you know, that circle chart) is second nature
• You’re not scared to question the way things are done - while remaining respectful to the opinions of others
• You can write clean code that runs in a browser with javascript… had to say it
  
• A successful candidate will have substantial relevant experience in high-tech software development teams

Baseline skill expectations - extra points for things in [brackets]

• 5 yrs+ React knowledge [Next.JS framework]
• Css/Sass/Less know-how [TailwindCSS]
• PR / safe code collaboration practice [PRs + LaunchDarkly]
• Automated testing / unit / e2e / etc. experience [Cypress]
• Deployment pipeline involvement [Jenkins / Github Actions]
• Leadership history [player/coach, mentor, etc.]
• Project management / organizational skills [Jira/Confluence]
• A bachelor’s or better degree in computer science or software engineering -or-
• A bachelor’s or better degree in a STEM discipline plus substantial software engineering experience

Important Notice: Howl is a fully remote organization! 

Howl is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.