Software Engineer (Front End): Build Something Meaningful

Role Summary:

As a Front End Software Engineer at CrowdStreet, you'll be a key part of our team, collaborating on a scalable, next-generation platform. You'll bring your passion for defining, implementing, and shipping software that delivers high-impact value to our customers.

You care about writing clean & performant code, are comfortable working on front end tasks, and have an interest in learning more on the server side of software development. You'll add features, help identify and resolve performance and scalability problems, and develop functionality that will enable investors to evaluate investment opportunities, complete an online investment transaction workflow, build a real estate portfolio, track investment performance, and chart returns.

The Success You'll Build: Primary Responsibilities and Impact

• Build functionality to improve the investment experience for all CrowdStreet users
• Work closely with product management and business stakeholders to understand business requirements and provide accurate estimations
• Identify and resolve bugs and performance issues
• Pay down tech debt, and provide ongoing maintenance and support for the application
• Document new and existing code; share and communicate with others on the engineering team

The Experiences That Will Help You Succeed:

• 4+ years experience as a software engineer building modern web applications
• 3+ years experience building responsive web applications using JavaScript frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue.js
• Ability to collaborate with UX designs, ensuring feasibility and iterating to an efficient solution
• Familiarity with building and growing reusable component libraries
• Experience working in an agile development environment with Scrum

Extra Credit If You Have:

• Java development experience
• experience with data Modeling and querying w/ SQL (e.g. PostgreSQL, SQLite)
• experience building REST API's
• Amazon Web Services (i.e., ELB, Elastic Beanstalk, SQS, RDS PostgreSQL, Aurora)
• Knowledge of security best practices when building web applications
• Automated Testing (i.e., Cypress, Selenium)

The What | Technical/Functional:

• This is a chance to take on initiatives that are critical to the scaling of our marketplace by honing in on your JavaScript skills with React as we update and add new features to our UI.
• You will be learning and working on a modern front-end stack consisting of ReactJS (w/ Redux).
• We use Atlassian tools (JIRA, BitBucket, BitBucket Pipelines) and Amazon Web Services for continuous integration and deployment.
• And we follow the standard Agile / Scrum processes with sprints, stories, stand-ups, retrospectives and a fast automated zero-downtime deployment process.

The How | Values:

We are a diverse and collaborative organization We are connected and motivated by our common mission and goals:

• Collaboration: Seek diverse input, engage in healthy discussion, commit to decisions
• Respect: Treat others with kindness, practice empathy and inclusion, be a positive influence on others
• Impact: Embrace the entrepreneurial journey, focus on what matters, build something meaningful

Harassment, sexism, racism, bullying, aggression, intolerance & corrosive internal politics are unacceptable. Our values and beliefs are reflected in how we hire, coach, train, lead, reward, recognize and work together as a team.

Working at CrowdStreet

CrowdStreet is a FinTech company dedicated to transforming the world of investing in commercial real estate (CRE) through its online marketplace. CrowdStreet gives individual investors direct access to commercial real estate investment opportunities, while simultaneously helping real estate developers and operators (sponsors) raise capital online.

Since 2014, CrowdStreet has established itself as the leading online marketplace for institutional-quality CRE investment, generating over $2.4B of equity invested across 560 projects spanning 200+ sponsors and 13,000 active investors. The total project value that has appeared on CrowdStreet has exceeded $20B covering all asset types (office, industrial, multi-family, storage, etc), risk profile (development, opportunistic, value-add, core-plus, core), and regions of the US (40 states).

Today CrowdStreet's average investment per project is over $10 million with many raises exceeding $20 million, making it an attractive alternative funding source to institutional capital.

CrowdStreet has been recognized as a leader in the commercial real estate and technology spaces. Recent accolades include:

• Forbes Top 500 Best Startup Employer
• Deloitte Technology Fast 500
• 2020 Top Places to Work, The Oregonian
• 2020 Oregon Technology Awards Accelerate Company of the Year
• #5 for "Fastest Growing Private Companies in Oregon & SW Washington" by the Portland Business Journal.

We are proud to support 'Work Where You Work Best' and are enthusiastically adding to our team throughout the US. We also offer two locations (AUS and PDX) for those who work best in an office.

At CrowdStreet, inclusion, equity, and diversity are critical in achieving our goals. Our differences in age, race, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, physical ability, thinking style and background bring a breadth of knowledge that makes us collectively smarter and better able to compete. We are committed to recruiting, developing, and advancing a diverse staff and engaging in the hard work that makes that possible.

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