About Raise

We are on a mission to help people make their money worth more. Our marketplace gives consumers the chance to unlock the value in their gift cards. Members can sell their unwanted gift cards for cash and buy cards to save at their favorite stores.

We value attributes like passion, excellence, integrity, communication, and respect in our employees.

About The Position

Raise is looking for technical experts in the UI engineering realm. If you are an expert of web technologies, skilled in architecting modern web applications, and passionate about front-end design patterns, we are looking for you.

We create libraries and frameworks; improve the code base by refactoring, updating and removing outdated code; standardize engineering-wide consistency in both code and look-and-feel. But most importantly, we execute large-scope, site-wide projects that have meaningful impact across the organization and for the business as a whole.

Raise UI Engineers are adept at working across our full application stack. We’ve built services in Node.js that deliver content and data to our front-end clients through JSON APIs as well as internal operations tools built as SPAs with React and Redux to support the day-to-day management of our marketplace.

As a senior engineer, you will be responsible for delivery of high-velocity, high-performing web experiences that have been thoroughly tested and built to the highest standards of our product and UX teams. You will have ownership over large portions of our web experience, and be able to guide our technology direction in a meaningful way.

Responsibilities

• Create the next generation of Raise UI on a cross-functional feature team


• Work with our design and UX team to turn mockups into features


• Deliver consistently performing UIs for new features on Raise


• Work alongside back-end developers to create reusable API endpoints


• Assist product managers and technical leads in project planning and driving technical direction


• Share, mentor, and foster an environment where you and others can grow and share technical knowledge


 

Skills & Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of front-end web languages (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)


• Driving opinions on responsive design techniques, and progressive enhancement


• Experience building and using JavaScript libraries and modules utilized by the engineering team


• Experience working with service oriented architectures and distributed systems


• Expert on at least one client-side JavaScript framework (Experience building React applications preferred)


• Expert in developing complex UIs that leverage RESTful JSON APIs


• Experience in building applications and services using Node.js or Ruby/Rails


• High attention to detail in maintaining design integrity throughout the Agile development lifecycle


• Experience using Git in a collaborative setting


• Experience working with cross-functional teams in an Agile environment


• Experience writing object-oriented code, especially in JavaScript (Experience writing code that utilizes functional programming principles preferred)


• Strong written and interpersonal communication skills


• B.S. in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience


 

Benefits

All employees receive a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, a 401K, disability, life insurance and a minimum 15 days PTO. As an engineer, you will receive up to eight weeks maternity leave and two weeks paternity leave, or a $5,000 adoption credit and up to six weeks leave for adoption family bonding.

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