Frontend Engineer

Job brief

We're building a groundbreaking software solution, purpose-built to support todays commercial contractors. From helping our customers manage their service department all the way to project management, were breaking the mold and building a team that invests in our mission statement. We love driven, self-motivated folks experienced in tech start-ups and thrive in fast-paced environments. Could you be our next hire?

This candidate will join a well-funded, fast-growing technology startup with the unique opportunity to help build out a critical function for the company.

As a member of the team, your primary focus will be to help continue to build and enhance our industry-leading platform. We are looking for a motivated, self-starter who can work in a distributed team environment. The day-to-day responsibilities are broad, and you will ultimately be responsible for shipping high-quality software that powers many businesses and shapes the maintenance industry..

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain our frontend platform using React framework.
  Write quality code with high test coverage and documentation.
• Develop, support, and improve our GraphQL and REST APIs.
• Promote, teach, and enforce our documentation standards.
• Propose recommendations, build prototypes, and provide feedback.
• Work in tandem with the QA engineering team to ship quality and high-precision software.
• Co-own the short and long-term technical vision of your squad with your teammates.
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers within your team and others.
• Help improve the technical quality of our work through regular technical design, code reviews and automated testing.
• Share your technical knowledge and expertise.Communicate 
• effectively with engineers, product managers, customers, partners, and other leaders.

Requirements

• Equivalent of 3+ years of experience in software engineering roles (micro frontend architectures, etc)
• We expect that as an individual contributor, you are a role model to more junior engineers
• You will be expected to shape and guide the technology decisions of your squad, while contributing alongside them.
  Write modern JavaScript/ECMAScript code that is clean, well-tested, and reusable.
• Strong communication and technical writing skills.
• Strong experience with React.js to develop and test applications/components that work optimistically in a production environment.
• Strong experience with Node.js using GraphQL API using Apollo.
• Prior knowledge or ability to quickly learn developing in a CI/CD environment preferred.
• Prior knowledge or familiarity with Python for back-end development a plus.
• Familiarity with Jest, unit testing, debugging, profiling, performance monitoring.
• B.S., M.S. or PhD from top university in computer science, engineering or related fields.