Frontend Software Engineer

First Help Financial (FHF) is one of the fastest growing companies in the US. We help first-time buyers get a car by offering flexible financing options and native-language support. Our mission is to help overlooked consumers get access to financing and make smart financial decisions. Through flexible financing options and tri-lingual support, we offer consumers an easier way to finance their first car. From our Boston and Phoenix offices, we lend to and support our portfolio which has consistently grown 35% each year over the last five years. Our exponential growth also comes with financial stability as a company.

Here you will find hard-working coworkers that are experts in their jobs and dedicated to their customers. We hold ourselves to the highest standards of professionalism but also enjoy work with benefits that are geared towards making you successful in life and comfortable at work.

Your Title: Frontend Software Engineer

Your Location: Remote/preferably the Greater Boston Area

You Report To: Engineering Manager

Schedule: Monday to Friday 9am - 5:30pm EST

Compensation: $110,000+ plus bonus!

First Help Financial, voted and certified as a “Great Place to Work” by our workforce for two years in a row, is adding a new partner to our Engineering department to accommodate our remarkable growth! First Help Financial is embarking on a new growth phase involving multiple game-changing projects. To fuel such innovation, we are seeking a full-time, permanent front-end engineer to lead important technology and security projects that impact the entire enterprise as well as its clientele.

What You Will Do:

Your duties include, but are not limited to:

• Build high-performance, responsive Single Page Web applications (SPAs) using React, Redux and CSS-in-JS
• Gaining expertise on the Loan Originating platform to design, configure and build new solutions as per business requirements
• As an engineer, be a self-starter with strong work ethic and lead frontend design and implementation
• Collaborate with design / product team to identify design components for implementation and communicate effectively
• Work in an agile test-driven environment as a part of a dynamic development team
• Ensure that technical solutions follow best practices, are reliable, easily maintainable, and scalable under sustained load
• Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers to build quality software
• Bring industry best practices in terms of technology and process
• Participate in design and code reviews

What You Bring:

• Minimum 3+ years experience as a software engineer
• At least 2+ years of experience building responsive UIs in React and JavaScript ES6/7/8 and familiarity/experience with Typescript and Nodejs
• 3+ years experience with REACT
• Experience working with web services (REST)
• Experience with Nodejs
• Adherence to test-driven development methodologies within a CI/CD framework
• Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Able to work effectively under schedule pressure to fix bugs, review code, design, write, test new code, and diagnose production issues.
• You are customer-focused, react well to changes, and able to multi-task on multiple products and projects
• Bachelor’s Degree (MIS or CS preferred) or equivalent work experience
• Full-stack background is a plus