Senior Frontend Engineer
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Description

Shippo lowers the barriers to shipping for businesses around the world. As free and fast shipping becomes the norm, better access to shipping is a competitive advantage for businesses. Through Shippo, ecommerce businesses, marketplaces, and platforms are able to connect to multiple shipping carriers around the world from one API and dashboard. Businesses can get shipping rates, print labels, automate international documents, track shipments, and facilitate returns. Internally, we think of Shippo as the building blocks of shipping. Shippos are a diverse set of individuals.

Join us to build the foundations of something great, roll up your sleeves and get important work done everyday. Founded in 2013, we are a proud team based out of San Francisco. Shippo's investors include Bessemer Venture Partners, Union Square Ventures, Uncork Capital, VersionOne Ventures, FundersClub and others.

As a Front End Engineer, you will create a component library that is reusable across all of Shippo's web properties. As a member of the engineering team, you will work jointly with the design team to create beautiful, interactive, and responsive web interfaces. You will lead in the implementation of the user interfaces, developing new pages end-to-end on your own or assisting and working with other team members in the implementation.

RESPONSIBILITIES

* Collaborate with design team to build a tool for creating interactive interfaces and create rapid prototypes of design concepts
* Architect UI layer to maximize design and code reuse
* Implement, test, and deploy new pages and features
* Lead in the implementation of a UI testing framework and tests
* Keep up-to-date with high performance best practices, conduct performance tests regularly, and optimize web pages continuously
* Keep abreast of and evangelize the adoption of developments of HTML, CSS, and JS
* Participate in design reviews for new features, products, and systems
* Mentor other team members and grow UI competencies in the engineering team
* Provide feedback to improve the usability of the product and reduce the complexity of the user interface

REQUIREMENTS

* BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
* Past experience and success creating extensible style library and organizing source code for reuse and maintainability
* Extensive experience and knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery and familiarity with SASS or LESS
* Knowledge and understanding of best practices for high performance web sites
* Experience creating responsive web experiences leveraging browser and device capabilities, making use of emerging tools and best practices
* Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates and AJAX
* Interest in and understanding of security practices and test automation
* Familiarity with server-side programming languages (Python, Scala, Java, or Ruby), modern JS frameworks (AngularJS, Ember.js, or React), and JavaScript charting frameworks (HighCharts or D3), is a plus
* Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills; ability to communicate with non-technical team members
* Deep understanding of customer needs and passion for customer success

BENEFITS

* Benefits: medical, dental, vision (90% covered by the company, incl. dependents)
* Take-as-much-as-you-need vacation policy + flexible work hours
* Free lunch / drinks / snacks
* Fun team events outside of work hours
* Super awesome team that cares about Shippo's mission, product and their co-workers!