Staff Front End Engineer (Fintech)

Company: Recruiting From Scratch
Location: Hamilton
Posted on: January 25, 2023

Job Description:

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.

About the role

The Web Product team is responsible for our client's customer-facing web applications and design system, from first interaction to loan servicing. They build opinionated, scalable, reusable architectures that power their platform's business and presence on the web. They work closely with teams across affirm to build and experimentally optimize new features and new businesses.

Our client is looking for an experienced Staff Engineer/Tech Lead to join them and help accomplish that mission. Given the speed that their code base is growing, your work will be challenging and will impact web projects across the company.

What You'll Do
Serve as a technical resource and engineering mentor for both senior and junior front-end engineers.
Architect, build, optimize, and scale the next generation of our client's web apps.
Influence the features and direction of our product and platform.
Work with product and engineering managers to identify and plan technical initiatives that cut across multiple front-end teams.
Build a detailed understanding of our business goals to help inform technical direction.
Look for, and implement, improvements to the end-to-end experience for developers working on our systems.

Qualifications
7-10+ years of product development experience with technical leadership responsibilities and experience mentoring both junior and senior engineers.
Real-world experience, and interest in, the latest in web development, such as server-side rendering (e.g. Next.js,) build systems (e.g. Rollup, Pax, Parcel) and languages (e.g. ReScript.).
Technical leadership; capable of providing mentorship, cross-functional project execution, setting and executing on technical vision and strategy.
Experience working cross-functionally with stakeholders from product and design.
Well-developed interpersonal, written and verbal communication.
Humility and self-awareness to understand opportunities to learn and grow, and to navigate the unknown.

Base Salary Range: $150,000 - $225,000

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