Senior Staff Engineer | Front-End

*REMOTE OPPORTUNITY* - Eastern Time Zone Preferred

At Nitrogen, we're on a mission to empower the world to invest fearlessly. The Nitrogen Growth Platform empowers advisors and firms to transform fearful investors who make bad decisions, into fearless investors who make great decisions - and great decisions are the fuel advisory firms use to deliver amazing long-term financial outcomes that change people's lives. We're the force multiplier for growing wealth management firms.

Mission

You empower the world to invest fearlessly by architecting, building, and shipping high-quality features and improvements to our products. You relentlessly lead by example, setting and expecting high standards, supporting and mentoring engineers around you, and growing along with them.

The Senior Staff Engineer:

• Is a hands-on-keyboard engineering leader with strong architectural vision who leads through expertise and example.
• Has extensive experience building consumer-grade web UI in an enterprise setting.
• Delivers against sprint commitments with elite quality and velocity.
• Promotes a culture of collaboration by communicating clearly and effectively in-person, as a public speaker, and in writing.
• Drives the UI architecture roadmap in partnership with Engineering Managers and other Engineers, resulting in high-quality, self-healing products and a productive development experience.
• Integrates technical experience, understanding of business requirements, and passion for user experience to create performant, reliable, and highly usable products.
• Has deep expertise in performant design and performance optimization of existing systems.
• Elevates their team through targeted coaching/mentoring, code reviews, tech talks, and purposeful documentation.
• Advances the state of the art for the organization through continual learning and investigation of new technologies and patterns.
• Proactively acquires domain knowledge to align technical decision-making with business objectives.
• Excels at solving complex problems by balancing innovation with existing solutions and best practices.
• Leverages expertise to identify and mitigate risks to delivery and quality early in the development process.

Requirements

• MUST HAVE 3+ years of experience working as a staff software engineer (5+ years of total software development experience) with an expertise in front-end development.

• MUST HAVE expertise and ability to mentor in the following tech stack:
  • Expert usage of Javascript and Typescript in production. Expert/proficient with React, GraphQL, Redux, Node.js, and Enzyme (or equivalent).
  • Intermediate to Expert in front end build processes (Webpack, Yarn, NPM).
  • Proven experience building microservices.

• Experience working independently in full stack projects, including tertiary skills such as security, design patterns, database architecture, etc.
• Experience mentoring others on your team.
• Experience doing long-term planning to create sustainability both in new development and in proactively addressing upcoming issues in existing systems. Emphasis in architecting self healing systems and features.
• A team player who promotes an environment of collaboration, openness, and positivity. Someone who does above the immediate day to day to take responsibility for the outputs of one's team generally.

• NICE TO HAVE knowledge of our industry, products, and systems in order to optimize development decisions for our business needs.
• NICE TO HAVE Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or the equivalent in a related field

The expected compensation range for this position is $140k - $180k.

Lesser experience may result in lower compensation and greater experience may result in greater compensation than the stated range.

Benefits

Financial Benefits & Perks

• 4% 401(k) Match. Our employees invest so much in our company and we love getting to invest in them. The company will match your contributions dollar-for-dollar, up to 4% of your total annual compensation.
• Free Financial Planning Services. By working at a financial technology company, you get the benefit of fantastic financial advice. This is offered to all employees wanting expert guidance on how to handle their money.

Health & Family

• Medical, Dental & Vision insurance plans. We want to help keep you (and your family) healthy! Comprehensive health insurance options for you & your family.
• Health Savings Accounts (HSA) or Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) available depending on chosen medical plan. We know that investment risk isn't a one-size-fits all and neither are your health savings options!
• Generous maternity & paternity leave for either the birth or adoption of a child. Mom's & Dad's need time with their new family members!
• Discounted pet insurance available. Pets are family too!!

Time Away & Culture

• 3 weeks vacation & 1 week sick time per year.Take the time you need for fun or simply time to recover from not feeling well.
• 11 paid company holidays per year. Enjoy your time off; you deserve it!
• Remote & in-person team building activities help our employees stay connected and engaged. We absolutely love to hype our people up!
• Company wide meetings held by our CEO benefit all employees by keeping everyone in the loop. We are one team, and we tackle projects together.
• Employee development is our priority. From leadership training, to mentorship, to industry resources, we care about progressing you in your career.

Want to know more?

While you can learn a lot from a job description, you may have more questions, and that's totally okay! We encourage all individuals interested in working at Nitrogen to learn more about us by checking us out on our website and social media platforms:

https://nitrogenwealth.com/

https://twitter.com/nitrogenwealth

https://www.linkedin.com/company/nitrogenwealth/

We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply!

Nitrogen is an equal opportunity employer.