Software Engineer, Frontend

Summary

Wealthfront is a company dedicated to creating a financial system that favors people over institutions. They are seeking Software Engineers to join their Frontend team to design and develop new products and features, enhance existing features, and improve infrastructure and developer productivity.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with backend and mobile engineers, designers, and product managers to build new features and enhance existing features
• Join other web engineers to triage and resolve operational issues, ensuring that mission-critical web systems and services operate smoothly across the web platform
• Help with web platform infrastructure projects to improve the health and performance of our systems and increase product delivery velocity
• Participate in recruiting activities such as interviewing
• Provide mentorship to other engineers on the team

Skills

• 2-5 years in a web-focused engineering role
• A deep understanding of JavaScript, including standard ES5+, native DOM APIs, and ideally at least one modern front-end framework (React, Vue, Angular, etc)
• Experience working with design to build custom pages and components, with a focus on page speed performance and writing custom CSS to create pages that are responsive across a variety of screen sizes
• Real passion for working on projects that have a measurable business impact and like working in a fast-paced cross-functional environment
• Experience with test-driven development, continuous integration, and automated testing
• You have either a BS or MS in computer science or related field
• Experience with Ruby on Rails or similar server-side frameworks (such as Express or Django) is a plus

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 2-5 years in a web-focused engineering role
• A deep understanding of JavaScript, including standard ES5+, native DOM APIs, and ideally at least one modern front-end framework (React, Vue, Angular, etc)
• Experience working with design to build custom pages and components, with a focus on page speed performance and writing custom CSS to create pages that are responsive across a variety of screen sizes
• Real passion for working on projects that have a measurable business impact and like working in a fast-paced cross-functional environment
• Experience with test-driven development, continuous integration, and automated testing
• You have either a BS or MS in computer science or related field

Nice to Haves

• Experience with Ruby on Rails or similar server-side frameworks (such as Express or Django) is a plus

Benefits

• Medical
• Vision
• Dental
• 401K plan
• Generous time off
• Parental leave
• Wellness reimbursements
• Professional development
• Employee investing discount
• More!