Senior Software Engineer, Front End

Our client is a global proptech company. Their tech-enabled platform provides a fully digitized experience with around-the-clock support and access to daily necessities like apartment cleanings, grocery delivery, wellness offerings, and more, providing a seamless experience from end to end.
  
Their mission is to make people feel at home wherever they choose to live. They have the same ethos for their employees, believing their people should have the power to choose their preferred way to work. Depending on the role’s requirements, team members can choose to work full time in one of the offices, work fully remote, or choose a hybrid model between the two.
  
The headquarters are in New York City, with a portfolio of thousands of apartments in 26 cities worldwide including in New York, Los Angeles, Dubai,  Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, Madrid, Berlin, Barcelona, Lisbon, Copenhagen, Luxembourg, Hong Kong and Singapore with plans to expand to 50+ cities by 2025.
  
The Role

They are looking for a talented Senior Front End Engineer to join the Engineering team. The mission is to offer a world class experience to their customers on the web, office based or remote. They are a tech enabled company, currently making substantial investments in their technology platform, from the booking website and mobile app to the key business internal software, to enable the next stage of high growth. The person in this role will work on the web products with some of the latest tech goodies, solid engineering practices and demanding requirements on UX, analytics and performance.

Their Stack

ES2015+
Node.js | Express | Fastify
Webpack 5.0 | Rush.js
SCSS | PostCSS | styled-components
MongoDB | Postgres | Redis
RabbitMQ | Kafka
Vue 3.0 | React | Vanilla.js
Jest | Cypress.io
RESTful APIs | GraphQL | gRPC
Serverless
  
Their code sits on Github, is integrated through Jenkins pipelines and runs on AWS EKS & Lambda. They do project management on JIRA, the prototypes and mockups on Figma and monitor the systems and performance on Datadog and New Relic.
  
What you’ll focus on:

• Architect, design and build product features on the web products
• Deliver rich, responsive, mobile first experiences on the browser
• Participate in SCRUM ceremonies
• Code in React or Vue.js
• Code in HTML and CSS
• Write your unit tests
• Write your e2e tests
• Automate stuff (Bash, Node, Python)
• Depend on a CI pipeline
• Experiment and create rapid prototypes

What to expect

• Your opinion to matter
• To work in an agile, cross functional, DevOps enabled team
• To work with a product designer, a product manager and an engineer in test
• To work on functional and non functional testing
• To build lots of stuff from scratch and rewrite quite as many
• To work on performance and SEO
• To move beyond frameworks and take advantage of modern browser tech
• To enjoy some quality engineering
• To get your hands on latest goodies – we’re open-minded geeks
• A rapidly growing company
• Cool colleagues 🙂
• Recruitment Dialogues
• Behavioural Dialogue with Talent Acquisition Team (30m)
• Live Coding: Evaluating Coding Skills (90m)
• Tech Dialogue : Computer Science Fundamentals (2 hours and a half)
• Executive Dialogue (optional – L3+): Leadership and Power Skills (30m)

Requirements

• 5+ years of full-time industry experience working with web technologies
• Strong web fundamentals and solid understanding of the 2020’s web ecosystem
• Strong Javascript skills (ES2015+)
• Strong HTML & CSS skills
• An eye for good UX
• Core Web APIs like DOM, Storage, Fetch etc should not be strange to you
• Really comfortable with Git
• Excellent communication in English
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or a related subject

Bonus: experience doing fullstack development on Node.js
Bonus: knowing your way around *nix shell
Bonus: experience in software testing
  
Benefits

• Competitive salary & annual performance bonus
• Stock Option Plan
• Flexible paid time off
• Group Health Insurance program
• Enhanced parental leave
• Dynamic working environment with talented people
• Flexible work environment through employee mobility program
• Complimentary accommodation in our client’s locations. Think summer in LA and winter in Dubai!