Senior Developer - Frontend
SpotHero is seeking a Senior Frontend Developer, who will work directly with our Co-Founder and CTO, Larry Kiss. You will be responsible for building the features that our users see and interact with on a daily basis, and for creating the tools that make that possible.
Who we are: SpotHero is making life easier for the daily driver, by giving them a seamless way of reserving parking on the web and on their mobile phones. We've grown almost 400% in just the last year and are changing the way that people find parking.
What might you find yourself doing here?
We value engineers who can work at all levels of our stack, but have a particular passion for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Our product team follows a rapidly iterative and data-driven product roadmap. Our ideal candidate will thrive in such a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, and will have the ability to both collaborate and execute efficiently.
- Creating user-facing search and eccommerce interfaces that leverage single-page application frameworks like Backbone to maximize client-side speed and scalability.
- Developing lightweight, responsive tools to support our operators and partners such as analytics dashboards and integration interfaces.
- Leveraging Sass to expand our UI component library which allows us to streamline development and ensure consistency across all of our interfaces.
- Using tools like Grunt to work towards further automation of our common development practices such as code minification, code linting, css vendor prefixes, unit testing etc...
- Discovering new ways to improve page load times. Some examples could be build optimizations, image spriting, lazy loading rich content, leveraging CDN assets or minimizing code in general to name a few.
The following experience is relevant to us:
- Familiarity with all aspects of MVC web applications (especially those built on Django or Rails)
- Commanding grasp of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Strong CS fundamentals
- Understanding of client-side performance characteristics
- Awareness of cross-browser compatibility issues
- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities
What we are offering:
- Computer of your choice with big monitor
- Stock Options in a growth-stage company
- Competitive Salary
- Flexible hours so you can be at your most productive
- High-energy environment with dedicated “work zones”
- Paid Time Off
- Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
- Life insurance and disability benefits
- 401(k)Pre-tax commuter benefits