Software Engineer, Frontend (React)

About the Role:

We are looking for frontend engineers who are passionate about both technology and excellent user experience. The ideal frontend engineer should have worked on at least one sizable production application using a frontend framework, such as React/Redux and ES6 JavaScript within the past year. We value an excitement to analyze data, solve tough problems, and deliver solutions in a fast-paced startup environment. As a small team, we share responsibility in all parts of the stack while acknowledging everyone has specific strengths. We look for team members who are excited to learn new technologies and work across all stacks, even if it’s not something you’ve done before! Our tech stack: Javascript, React, Redux, Python, Django, Flask, Kubernetes, AWS, Docker and more

Our greatest strength is our people and we’d love for you to be one of them!

Responsibilities:

• You will be working with our engineering team to design and deliver new features for our web and mobile apps
• Collaborate with our teams and designers to rapidly improve our user-facing applications
• Analyze data to improve every aspect of our users’ experiences

What You’ll Bring:

•  3-5 years software development experience, delivering commercial products to market
• BS in Computer Science or related field
• Significant experience with React and the React ecosystem as well as unidirectional data flow patterns, preferably Redux.
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript, including the latest ECMAScript standards.
• Strong knowledge of how the web works and how to make it efficient (HTTP, caching, page rendering, mobile optimization, etc).
• An understanding of REST API-Driven Microservices & Micro Frontends
• Passion for what you do and about improving the lives of others
• Experience with optimizing web applications for performance and accessibility
• History of effectively collaborating with creative, technical, and business teams
• A passion for UX/UI design or familiarity with UX/UI principles
• An understanding of MVC web application frameworks, preferably Django
• A firm understanding of data design and both relational database and NoSQL databases
• A belief in Agile methodologies, while still knowing how and when to adapt them to fit a team and projects
• The ability to pick up new technologies quickly, with software engineering fundamentals being valued more than familiarity with specific tools or languages
• A strong focus on writing and deploying clear, scalable, readable, and testable code
• Bonus points for experience with AWS and Docker

Hey, we know not everybody checks all the boxes, so if you’re interested, please apply because you could be just what we’re looking for!