Front-End Engineer
The Black Tux
Posted 3 years ago
The Black Tux is reinventing the formalwear rental industry so people can show up at their best on the days that matter most. The company designs and manufactures modern rental suits and tuxedos that actually fit—made of 100% wool, ordered online, and delivered for free. Using a combination of machine learning, tailor-trained fit specialists, and industry-leading customer service, The Black Tux guarantees a perfect fit every time.
Just as we are on the modern edge of men's fashion, we also strive to stay on the modern edge of technology and are looking to hire a Senior Front End Engineer. As a Senior Front End Engineer at The Black Tux, you will specialize in building responsive and elegant web UIs to drive delight with our end users and impact for our business.
What You'll Do
- Work with React + Redux single page applications
- Collaborate with other engineers on architectural and application design
- Participate in the evaluation process for new frameworks and their implementation
- Contribute to business-critical features, and work closely with product managers, designers and other team members to understand, articulate, and break down customer needs into technical requirements
- Focus on our end users and deliver features that excite them
Who You Are
- 3+ years of professional software development experience
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
- Collaboration with engineers, product management, and design is a core part of your process
- Solid understanding of React.js, along with popular React.js frameworks (such as Redux or Apollo)
- Proficiency in JavaScript, the JavaScript object model, HTML and CSS/SCSS
- Experience with ES6
- Experience with common front-end development and build tools such as Babel, Webpack, npm, Docker, etc.
- Likes to work with fellow engineers to find the best solutions, and writes documentation on decisions made
- Conversant in algorithms, software patterns, and their best usage
Nice to haves
- Experience in one or more object oriented programming language (e.g. Python, Ruby, Java, C++)
- Experience with deploying and monitoring new applications with modern platforms, such as Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, and/or Heroku
- Experience with CI/CD environments and tools such as Jenkins, Codeship, CircleCI, etc.
- Experience with web performance optimization, accessibility, and SEO
- Experience with experimentation platforms and A/B testing
Perks of working in the Black Tux
- We pay people equally and based on market compensation data
- We provide a 401(k) plan through Betterment
- Our full-time employees receive stock options and have a stake in the company
- We provide our full-time employees with Evergreen stock option grants every 2.5 years
- Our Health, dental and vision plans are competitive, and we cover 100% of employee coverage and 50% of dependents
- Open vacation time
- Monthly cell phone reimbursement
- Daily commuter reimbursement
- Dog friendly HQ
- Complimentary dry cleaning & tailoring services
- TBT Women’s Group
- TBT Diversity and Inclusion Group
- Weekly catered lunches
- Paid maternity and paternity leave
- Stocked Kitchen & pantry
- Apple equipment or whatever you need to be productive
- Monthly employee events and trainings
- Free suit rentals
We're an equal opportunity employer to all. We interview and hire applicants of all backgrounds, orientations, expressions, and identities
Our people are the most important asset to us. Our benefits, perks, pay and culture reflect this in every decision we make. If you want to learn more about us, check out our Culture Book.