Senior React Front End Engineer
About the job
Self Financial, Inc. helps consumers establish and build credit history. We are a venture-backed, financial services startup based in Austin, TX. At Self, our mission is to help millions of people build credit and save money on their journey toward financial security.
There are about 100 million people in the US who have low credit scores or who have no access to credit at all. Sadly, there aren’t many options for these people. Most banks aren’t doing anything material to change the situation because it’s not profitable for them to do so. Bad credit or no credit history can be barriers to renting an apartment or getting certain jobs, let alone buying a car or house. And if you can get a loan with a low credit score, you’re very likely to pay a lot more in interest over the life of that loan.
Our team is passionate about challenging the status quo of the credit industry by giving people accessible and affordable tools to take control of their credit. Executing on our mission requires deep collaboration across our teams to ensure our products reach the people who can most benefit from them.
We're looking for people who share a passion for our mission and relate to why we do what we do. At Self, we want to work with people who are driven to tackle challenges, bring unique perspectives, find solutions and help make the financial space a better place for our consumers. We recognize that it takes different people and personalities to make our products – and our company – truly great. We only seek the best.
If you are someone who is equally passionate as we are, we want to chat with you.
About the Role:
As a React front end engineer, you’ll be working to implement a cutting-edge user experience that can be seamless for Android, iOS, and Web users. You’ll integrate with our Rest APIs and other 3rd-party services. You’ll collaborate with designers, product managers and other stakeholders in brainstorming new ideas, developing features, gathering feedback and iterating, thereby continuously providing impactful improvement to our products.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of professional work experience with modern front end frameworks such as React, Angular, Ember, Vue.js.
- Firm grasp of the JavaScript language and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax.
- Fluency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and related web technologies.
- Solid understanding of the React ecosystem, component composition, lifecycle methods.
- Strong familiarity with CSS Flexbox, CSS Grid, CSS in JS or other React-based CSS solutions.
- Experience with front end tooling like NPM, Yarn, Babel, Webpack, ESLint, Prettier.
- Experience building and consuming APIs to interact with other services using REST
- Experience with common software engineering tools such as Git (or other VCS), JIRA, Confluence and similar platforms.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience developing mobile-first, responsive websites.
- Experience developing UI for iOS and Android platforms.
- Background in JavaScript testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, Chai, Enzyme.
- Experience using GraphQL and Apollo or Relay clients in a production application.
- Background in building cross-platform native applications using React Native is a plus.
- Familiarity with native build tools like XCode, Android Studio.
Responsibilities:
- Develop, extend, and maintain the Self website leveraging the React framework.
- Build and maintain our mobile app using React Native.
- Translate the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code and technical implementation that will produce pixel perfect visual elements.
- Work with designers, product managers, back end engineers to implement new product features and improve existing ones.
- Build efficient and reusable front end components and abstractions.
- Identify and address performance bottlenecks.
- Participate in design and code reviews.
- Reach out to the open source community to encourage and help implement mission-critical software fixes—JavaScript moves fast and often breaks things.
- Maintain code and write tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.
- Provide stakeholders with time and resource estimates related to product development.
- Make technical decisions and improvements around front end development.
- Ensure user-facing code is written with security in mind.
- Keep up-to-date with the best front end practices and tooling.
Why Self?
There are approximately 100 million people in the US who have low credit scores or who have no access to credit at all. Sadly, they have few options. Most banks and financial institutions don’t make any material effort to address this situation because it’s not profitable for them to do so. Poor credit or a lack of credit history can create major barriers to renting an apartment or getting certain jobs, let alone buying a car or house. Even if you can get a loan, with a low credit score you’re very likely to pay much more in interest and fees over the life of that loan.
Self Financial, Inc. is a venture-backed, financial services startup based in Austin, TX. Our mission is to address this inequity by helping millions of traditionally-underserved people build credit and save money on their journey toward financial security.
In addition to our positive mission, we also foster an open, welcoming, and fun culture, and take pride in being one of Austin’s best places to work.
Benefits and Perks:
We have the compensation and benefits you expect. But, there's one thing that Self Financial can offer that many startups cannot: we can positively change the world, while making a profit. Over 64 million adults in the U.S. do not have a credit score because of a lack of credit history. Self is solving this problem with creative technology solutions and partnerships.
Our perks include:
- Competitive Pay
- Bonus Program
- Stock options
- Self pays 100% of employee's monthly medical, dental and vision benefit costs and a portion of dependent insurance coverage
- Buy up options available, costs vary across benefit type
- 401(k) Plan available to full-time employees to save for retirement
- Self pays 100% of Life/AD&D/Short-Term and Long-Term Disability insurance premium costs for all full-time employees
- Enjoy our flexible vacation policy
- Company paid education and training programs
- Free at-home workout through Sworkit and gym membership
- Plenty of snacks and drinks provided at the office
- Casual dress code
- Team building, happy hours and events (Online now, due to pandemic)
- Downtown Austin office space (Our offices are partially open)
- Remote work arrangements (due to the pandemic)
- Monthly $100 COVID stipend for full time employees through 12/2021
How we act with each other is how we act with our customers. We are direct, transparent and respectful, and we hope you embrace that approach.
Self Financial requires all employees hired to successfully pass a background check.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.