Senior Software Engineer, Front-End

About the position

Greenhouse is looking for a Senior Front-End Software Engineer to join our team! As the Senior Front-End Engineer on our post-hire ecosystem team you'll be our first dedicated Senior Front-End Engineer, shaping the future of our user interfaces and front-end architecture. You'll work closely with our Ruby/Rails backend engineers, leveraging AWS cloud, relational databases, and technologies like Kafka, all while driving excellence on the frontend.

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust, scalable, and intuitive user interfaces for our core products, ensuring exceptional user experiences
• Lead the evolution of our front-end architecture, making key decisions on patterns, tools, and best practices to enhance flexibility, maintainability, and performance
• Actively collaborate with backend engineers on API design and data contracts, ensuring seamless and efficient integration between front-end and backend systems
• Evaluate, select, and technically integrate third-party applications and APIs, becoming a go-to expert for external service integrations
• Drive solutions end-to-end, from understanding requirements to deployment, taking strong ownership of your work
• Mentor and elevate the front-end expertise within the broader engineering team, sharing knowledge and advocating for best practices
• Contribute to a highly collaborative team, actively seeking and providing feedback to continuously improve our products and processes

Requirements

• At least 5+ years of experience as a Front-end focused Software Engineer
• Proven experience in designing scalable and flexible front-end architectures, managing complexity, and ensuring long-term maintainability
• Proven proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+) and Typescript
• Strong knowledge of React (including Hooks, state management, and common patterns)
• Experience actively participating in discussions about API endpoint design and data contracts, collaborating closely with backend engineers (especially with RESTful APIs)
• The ability to read and comprehend backend code (e.g., Ruby/Rails at the controller level) to effectively understand API contracts and facilitate seamless integration
• Experience evaluating, selecting, and integrating third-party technology solutions and APIs into existing systems
• A solid understanding of HTML5, CSS3/Sass, front-end build tools (e.g., Webpack)
• Experience working with UI component libraries (e.g., Material UI)
• Familiarity with accessibility best practices and how to implement them, a plus

Nice-to-haves

• Your own unique talents! Your background has given you a unique perspective and set of transferable skills that aren't always in alignment with a given role - but those are qualities we value at Greenhouse.

Benefits

• The national pay range for this role is $143,000 - $214,000 CAD.
• Individual compensation will be commensurate with the candidate's experience and qualifications.
• Certain roles may be eligible for additional compensation, including stock option awards, bonuses, and merit increases.
• Certain roles have the opportunity to receive sales commissions that are based on the terms of the sales commission plan applicable to the role.