Senior Front End Engineer
True Link Financial
Posted 1 year ago
We are a fast-growing, mission-driven fintech company that provides quality financial solutions for people whose needs go unmet by traditional institutions. We serve people with complex needs and those who care for them, and it is an honor to wake up in the morning knowing that we have a profound impact on our customers’ lives.
In this role, you’ll use your front end expertise to make this thoughtful fintech work happen! While you’ll spend most of your time hands-on coding in our Rails/React stack, you’ll also be taking the time to understand the architecture, mentor and learn from those around you to create more sustainable front end software.
What You'll Do
- Shape and deliver user-centric features in our Rails/React environment
- Act as a kind educator and learn from teammates across different experience levels in JavaScript
- Guide the team towards creating more robust front end experiences through a mix of modeling better practices and active mentoring and teaching
- Collaborate with our small but mighty design and product teams to continue to build customer insights into our products
Who You Are
- Experienced JavaScript developer with modern framework experience
- Comfortable collaborating with designers and product managers to balance tradeoffs between addressing tech debt and delivering functionality
- Experienced teacher or mentor who also learns from others
- Adept at delivering ambitious projects quickly while reinforcing a culture of excellence
- Enjoy creating order and vision out of chaos and patchwork
- A technical leader who builds buy-in
- A thoughtful communicator and teammate who leads with humility and caring (check out our company values)
What Tech You Know - Must-haves
- React (16 or later)
- Unit testing (Jest, Mocha, or any other front end)
- Modern EcmaScript
- Responsive applications
- Webpack
- CSS
What Tech You Know - Nice-to-haves
- A11y
- AWS (S3, EC2, Route53, IAM)
- End to End Testing
- Architectural Decision Records Material UI
- Jest with React Testing Library
Why You'll Love Us
- We’ve got the energy and passion of a high-growth startup combined with the professionalism of a financial services firm and the compassion of a mission-driven organization that truly cares about each other and the people we serve.
- We’re just getting started! With fifty million Americans in our addressable market, we are growing quickly into a large financial services company that will be developing new products you will help us shape and take to market.
- We offer competitive wages, Health, Dental & Vision coverage, your very own professional development budget, an awesome vacation package and more.
- Our customers are not only grateful for our services but are the absolute best. We have the privilege of providing financial protection for vulnerable members of society and partnering with expert service providers to do so. Our customers and partners love us, and we love them back. You can sleep soundly every night knowing you are doing a really wonderful thing by getting our services into more hands.
- We treat one another like we treat our customers: with respect and dignity. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are cultural values we take seriously, and we welcome and recruit team members of all backgrounds and identities.
- We like to have fun together! The majority of us work from home from all across the US, and we enjoy connecting virtually for laughs with teammates, and appearances of kiddos and furry friends over Zoom. For those of us who work in our offices (currently: SF and Kingston NY), they are dog-friendly spots, filled with snacks, catered lunch, and friendly, caring people. And we love our in-person team get-togethers around the country.
If you are a high-performing person who wants to join a diverse, inclusive team and use your skills to make a real impact in people’s lives, we invite you to apply to join our team.