Front End Engineer
New York, NY

Job Description

About Us:

SmartAsset is a financial technology company with the simple mission of helping people make better financial decisions. Recently named one of Y Combinator's Top 100 companies of all time, we have raised more than $50 million in venture capital. Our personal finance tools, calculators and content reach more than 45 million people each month. Our business model is to help the in-market consumers on our platform find the right Financial Advisor or the right Financial Product to meet their needs.

SmartAsset has been featured in hundreds of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, CNN, TechCrunch, The New York Times, The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, TIME, Reuters, Businessweek, Barron's and many more.

About You:

SmartAsset is looking for a hands-on, experienced, Front End Developer to join our NYC-based technology team. You will be responsible for a wide range of challenging tasks, working on various front-end aspects of our product, user-interactivity, our mobile app, and various infographics.

Responsibilities

* Work with our in-house design team to develop our user-facing applications
* Develop highly interactive, clean user-interfaces
* Optimize our front-end code for performance, compatibility and seamless interaction
* Track tasks and issues, fix bugs and optimize as needed
* Re-engineer and optimize code for performance and scale

Required Skills and Experience:

* At least 4 years professional front-end development experience
* Excellent knowledge of HTML, CSS and Javascript
* Knowledge of JQuery and other Javascript libraries (underscore, etc)
* Clear understanding of browser differences and quirks
* Excellent design skills and a keen eye for detail
* Good working experience with backend languages (such as Java, PHP, Python, C#)
* Ideally some design or computer-science background
* Excellent communication skills required

Perks:

* Catered lunch 3x per week
* Friday Tastings
* Regular team social activities (book club, sports league, community service, etc.)
* Medical, Dental and 401(k)
* Educational reimbursement program