About the Team
This is a role for the Matching pillar of the Software Engineering group. Our pillar is dedicated to forming robust and scalable software to facilitate the matching of experienced advisors to investors.
The fully remote team works closely with our Product, Data, and Operations departments to ensure the top priority of our clientele is being addressed in the most efficient manner. The team is actively undertaking a rework of core business logic that powers the matching operation, allowing each member to bring their creativity and problem solving skills to multiple challenges. This particular role will ensure the solutions being provided include high performance UI/UX for all of our stakeholders.
About the Job:
Responsibilities:
- Apply your knowledge of software engineering to develop highly interactive, easily understood user interfaces
- Collaborate with software engineers and product managers to understand our customers’ needs and the design decisions of the product
- Optimize our frontend code for performance, scale, accessibility, and device compatibility
Skills/Experience You Have:
- 2+ years professional frontend development experience
- Excellent knowledge of React and capable of advising other team members in its patterns
- Proficiency in TypeScript development skills with an understanding of ES6 concepts
- Proficiency in HTML5 including semantic markup principles
- Proficiency in CSS3 with an understanding of best practices in implementing Responsive designs
- Practiced in writing unit tests using the React Testing Library or similar tools
- Strong understanding of network protocols (especially use of CORS), RESTful APIs and browser differences
- Knowledge of UX/UI concepts and comfortable with providing feedback on new feature proposals to Design and Product team members
- Knowledge of agile software development methodologies, such as Scrum or Kanban is required
Skills/Experience Preferred:
- Familiarity with functional language paradigms and the ability to apply them when writing and using data structures in JavaScript
- Experience with Git or other subversion tools
- Excellent communication in an asynchronous and fully remote environment
- Conviction in applying best practices and high quality code in your solutions
What you’ll be working on
This role will have a large amount of independence related to the design and execution of many frontend tools. Although SmartAsset has a limited design team we have a well documented style guide that provides a sandbox for frontend developers to build in. The tools this engineer will help build will be used by the majority of the company.
