Senior Frontend Developer
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Posted over 4 years ago
Hello. We are ShipHero (https://shiphero.com). We have built a software platform entrusted by hundreds of ecommerce companies, large and small to run their operations. Many of our customers sell on Shopify and/or Amazon. We’re driven to help our customers grow their businesses, by providing a platform that solves complex problems, and is engineered to be reliable and fast. We strive to build great technology, that is beautiful and easy to use. Our culture also reflects our ethos and belief that by bringing empathetic, talented and great people together - you can do great things.
Our team is remote, with most of our engineers currently either in New York or Argentina. We do daily stand-ups via Google Hangouts and communicate regularly using video chat and Slack.
We are seeking a senior software engineer with proven programming and analytic abilities. You would be a fundamental member of the team focusing on building a solid foundation for the platform. We seek people who are excited and driven to continue growing with the experience of working with talented engineers, and help others improve. We are obsessed with disrupting an industry that desperately needs it, by continuing to build tools that help make our customers do great things.
You will work building the frontend for our platform. We develop for the web, desktop, and mobile. Your code will be the gateway to warehouses shipping thousands of orders every day.
About you
- You understand that great things are accomplished when teams work together.
- You’ve got lots of experience with web technologies, and building user interfaces.
- You're very comfortable with React, ES6, Babel, Webpack.
- You can code review other team members work, provide assistance, and appreciate feedback.
- You take pride in your craft.
- You’ve learned from building systems and solutions the reasons to avoid technical debt, and how to approach and implement TDD and CI practices.
- You can craft elegant solutions when solving complex features and solutions.
- You’ve made a lot of mistakes, and most importantly, have learned from them.
- 10+ years of experience writing software.
- You are comfortable and even enjoy mentoring others in different skillsets.
- You have worked on medium and large projects that have gone to production and lived there for a while.
- Bonus points if you've got mobile development experience (especially if done with React Native), experience with GraphQL and Apollo, or experience with AWS.
The Role
- Work on a cross-functional team including back end and UX to build solutions that are easy for customers to understand, work consistently and scale well.
- Review features and requirements and guide, design, and implement solutions.
- Understand business requirements and think through solutions in terms of not just the coding implementation but also how the solution fits into the solution and how it solves a customer need.
- Ability to estimate effort and ship on agreed schedule. Comfortable pushing yourself and your team members when challenges pop up.
- Lead regular code reviews, with the goal of code quality, good design and approach along with pushing engineers to improve and evolve.
- Learn, and push those around you to do the same - this is a craft that you’re constantly improving upon.
- Implement solutions that are pragmatic to get the platform built.
- Have the confidence to work with experienced and talented people to just build great things, you’re not a “rockstar”.
- Work with ShipHero leadership to implement practices and principles for the team.
The Perks
- $2.500 so you can buy any equipment you need to be happy at your job
- 20 days paid vacation + new year & christmas
- Conference days don't count against your vacation days, we want you to stay up-to-date
- We will pay for courses & conferences, if you learn we all learn