Senior Frontend Engineer

We’re looking for a talented and motivated Senior Frontend Engineer to join our team and make a big impact.

As a Senior Frontend Engineer on the Relationships team, you’ll work closely with design, engineering, and product to ensure our customers have features essential to their growing needs. You'll contribute to small and large technical projects across the application, while collaborating with other application teams. You will play a key role in shaping our engineering culture and processes.

Our tech stack includes Python, Django, Celery, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Vue, and Webpack. Our technology team prioritizes scalability, quality, efficient delivery, and an intuitive customer experience. We release updates frequently while maintaining a strong work-life balance.

To be set up for success in this role, you’ll need to have:

• 5+ years of professional experience as a frontend software engineer, focused on frontend architecture, performance and profiling, design systems, and testing frameworks

• Proficiency with modern frontend JavaScript frameworks like Vue.js or React

• Proficiency with vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

• Experience with Django or a similar web framework

• Experience with modern testing frameworks like Jest

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Sentry

• Experience with analytics tools like PostHog

If any of the below also describe you, this could be an exciting opportunity:

• Works on complex, high-traffic web applications at a startup or SaaS company and takes part in architecting frontend codebases, design systems, and testing frameworks (unit, end-to-end)

• Deftly handles problems that arise while maintaining a complex frontend codebase (ie. performance bottlenecks, user issues, browser bugs, visual discrepancies, and more), 

• Relies on tools like Sentry to monitor critical infrastructure and respond to issues

• Builds interactive and easy-to-use user interface components with a foundational understanding of frontend-to-backend communication, responsive design, grid layout systems, common UI patterns, SEO best practices, accessibility and web typography

• Evaluates the technical feasibility of product specifications and designs and bridges the gap between concepts and technical implementation

• Values user-friendliness, speed, scalability, consistency and accessibility over style and aesthetics, but still recognizes their importance

In addition, we’re always looking for candidates who:

• Have excellent communication skills, with an ability to explain ideas clearly, give and receive feedback, and foster a good rapport with teammates

• Take pride in the quality of their code (Your code should be readable, testable, and understandable years later. You adhere to the Zen of Python.)

• Work well in a fast-paced development environment with testing, continuous integration and multiple daily deploys

• Have the ability to manage complexity in a large project, and incur technical debt only after considering the tradeoffs

• Take a logical approach to problem solving that combines analytical thinking and intuition

Interview Overview:

Below you'll find an outline of the interview plan for this role. Please note that this is what we expect the process to look like; we may ask you for supplemental information or require an additional step before making a final decision.

• 30 min interview with a member of our Talent Team

• A one hour zoom interview with the hiring manager

• 45 min peer interview(s)

• Final call(s) with executive team member(s) 

Salary

The starting salary for this role is between $140,000 - $170,000, depending on skills and experience. We take a geo-neutral approach to compensation within the US, meaning that we pay based on job function and level, not location. For all other countries, we have competitive pay bands based on market standards.