Lead Frontend Engineer

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Updater is redefining how people move. Our technology processes millions of moves every year and provides applications that allow movers to seamlessly achieve all the tasks needed to move homes. Our lean team of product minded and collaborative engineers ship products that allow movers to accomplish everything from changing their addresses to setting up their utilities.

As a Senior or Lead Frontend Engineer, you’ll be helping to build experiences that our users love. If you enjoy building beautiful user focused applications, solving complex routing and state management problems, and shipping well tested code, we need your help!

About the Role

• Collaborate daily with product, design, internal stakeholders, and other engineers to build delightful and functional web experiences that help our users move.
• Ensure the creation of maintainable, extensible applications through solid architecture and infrastructure decisions
• Take responsibility for planning and execution of business-critical products
• Work with the devops and QA teams to own the quality, operations, and performance of your products

About You

• Empathy: you strive to see the world from your teammates’ point of view in order to more effectively collaborate
• Humility: you have an opinion, but aren’t afraid to be proven wrong, and are open to suggestions on what tool or technique is best to most efficiently solve a problem
• Pragmatism: you understand that there is no perfect tech and make practical choices for solving the problem at hand
• Product focused: You understand the goal of software engineering is to ship products and are as concerned about feature performance and usability as code quality
• 5+ Years of Professional Software Development Experience
• 2+ Years of frontend experience building large scale single page web applications
• Highly proficient in CSS, HTML, and Web APIs
• Responsible for integrating third party SDKs within an application
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop teammates
• Startup mindset, ownership, and a proper balance of quality and sense of urgency

About Updater

Updater makes moving easier for the 17 million households that relocate every year in the US. With Updater, users seamlessly forward mail, transfer utilities, connect TV and internet, and much more. Thousands of the most prominent real estate companies in the US (from real estate brokerages to multifamily and relocation companies) rely on Updater’s real estate products to save clients hours with a branded and personalized Updater moving experience.

Headquartered in New York City, Updater has raised over $200 million from leading investors, including SoftBank Capital, IA Ventures, Commerce Ventures, Second Century Ventures (the strategic investment arm of the National Association of Realtors®), and more. Updater ranked #3 on Crain's 2016 Best Places to Work in NYC, ranking as the highest-rated tech company on the list, and ranked #7 in 2018. For more information, please visit www.updater.com.

Updater is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants regardless of color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, actual or presumed belonging to an ethnic group, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.