LEAD FRONT END ENGINEER AT AN AWARD WINNING LOAN STARTUP

New York, New York

Who is Recruiting from Scratch:

Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire. We work with companies funded by the best investors including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Tiger Global Management, A16Z, Accel, DFJ, and more.

If you are a fit, the team will reach out to you about this role or any others that may be a fit for our clients.

Our Client

Our client is on a mission to help millions of American homeowners achieve financial security, alleviate debt burden, and build wealth through their home. A New York City-based company founded in 2016, our client has raised $54M in venture capital from top VCs including QED Investors and Blumberg Capital, are enjoying a 300% YoY growth rate, and has received The Best Place To Work award in 2022.

Our client pioneers a new category of loan-alternatives that is disrupting an outdated residential lending industry. They leverage technology like data analysis and API integrations to process thousands of deals quickly and efficiently, and eliminate the hassle of dealing with banks and lenders while refinancing or moving.

Role Description

Our client is looking for a compassionate engineer who enjoys helping a financially challenged demographic, has a growth mindset, and thrives in a dynamic team environment.

In this role you will help our client:

  • Design, develop, and document new features in our frontend user portals
  • Contribute to architectural and tooling decisions with company-wide impact
  • Maintain and improve existing user portals, selectively re-architect the code to scale
  • Communicate with Product and Design teams on best customer experience practices
  • Mentor and level up Engineering team

This role will report to VP Engineering.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional software development experience
  • 3+ years of experience working with React
  • 1+ years of experience working with Typescript
  • Comfortable with microservices architecture (REST, GraphQL)
  • Experience writing unit tests and integration tests with frameworks like Jest
  • Strong sense of ownership and attention to detail

Bonus Points

  • Full-stack experience (NodeJS, Express, Nest, Next)
  • Experience with using wireframe tools (Invision, Figma, or similar)
  • Familiarity with pixel-based user journey systems like Hubspot
  • Familiarity with CRM systems like Wordpress or Prismic

Benefits

  • Fully remote position with an option to work out of their swanky Manhattan office
  • Competitive compensation, stock options
  • Full benefits, generous PTO and sick leave, 401k match
  • A chance to work with incredible teammates that are creative, talented, and passionate
  • Annual company off-sites, fun virtual company outings, weekly online team events

Our client does not provide US visa sponsorship at this time.