Front End Engineer
About Sittercity
Sittercity, a Bright Horizons company, is a technology platform working to reimagine the child care industry. Finding, hiring and managing high-quality, trustworthy and enriching child care has never been simple, for parents or caregivers. We want to change that. At Sittercity, you can imagine and create solutions that will revolutionize a multi-billion industry and bring relief to parents and care providers alike, all while having a lot of fun! Boost your career as we launch into our next phase of growth and help build a platform that changes the way child care works.
What You’ll Do
As a Front End Engineer at Sittercity, you’ll join a squad of teammates drawn from a variety of disciplines, working to solve real problems for thousands of users. You’ll have direct input into product decisions, and help ensure that your team’s work helps parents and caregivers connect efficiently and safely. Our stack is in transition, with both an older Rails monolith and a newer client web app that uses Vue and GraphQL. You’ll have the chance to help plot a course from where we are to where we want to be. You’ll work with teammates to execute feature code, refactor existing functionality, write unit and integration tests, and strengthen our platform. We value diversity of opinion, openness to feedback, and continuous learning. We strive to produce quality software, and you’ll join us in our ongoing quest to improve our tools and skills.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with product managers, designers and other engineers and various stakeholders to develop new features
- Brainstorm with fellow team members to estimate the feasibility and implementation strategies of deliverables
- Mentor other engineers and help with code reviews
- Contribute to and drive front end best practices
- Contribute to our front end unit tests
- Be customer-focused
Qualifications:
- 1-3 years of experience as a front end engineer
- Proficient with CSS, HTML, and JavaScript
- Experience with a modern JavaScript framework such as Vue or React
- Familiarity with strengths and weaknesses of multiple JavaScript frameworks
- Experience with RESTful APIs, GraphQL or both
- Experience with unit testing, and writing testable code
- Some familiarity with Ruby on Rails
Nice to haves:
- Familiarity with accessibility best practices
- Familiarity with UI Regression Testing
- Familiarity with SEO
- Familiarity with page speed optimization
Why you should join us
We offer an innovative and fun environment that rewards passionate and curious individuals. Due to COVID-19, this will start as a remote role with the potential to eventually rejoin our team in our Chicago office. Our office provides a bright and energized space for collaboration as well as many quiet areas for concentration. Additionally, you will receive the following benefits:
- Support for flexible and remote working environments
- Company events, social outings and volunteer opportunities
- Generous paid time off policy, including sick and holiday
- Industry leading parental leave
- Tuition assistance, college coach, and enhanced family support
- Great benefits package, including: health, dental, vision, disability, life, and 401(k) matching
- Sittercity membership, back up child/adult/elder care, and child care center discounts
Sittercity is committed to hiring a diverse workforce. We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other basis as prohibited by federal, state or local law. Sittercity participates in E-Verify and background checks all employees.