Staff Engineer, Front End
SpotHero is seeking a Staff Engineer to be part of the team working across all of our front-end products. This team owns building out new features & products, and improving existing ones that allow millions of customers find and book parking seamlessly.
Who we are: SpotHero is a fast-growing market leader disrupting the mobility space. Drivers across the nation use the SpotHero mobile app, website, and connected car integrations to reserve convenient, affordable parking. Parking companies rely on us to help them reach new customers while optimizing their business. We connect the dots with cutting-edge technology, delivering value to both sides of this exciting, evolving marketplace.
What will you do:
- Own the overall architecture of our front-end systems, from our consumer product to our merchant platform to the internal systems.
- Evolve the front-end architecture, tooling and performance monitoring, to ensure product development teams are able to build quickly and test efficiently, while not sacrificing quality.
- Collaborate with product designers, fellow engineers and data scientists to build and iterate on experiments and product features that immediately impact our customers
- Guide the team in driving and scaling technology development for the next generation of products.
- Be a technical evangelist for all things front-end. Know how to strategically introduce new technology to an existing team.
- Use technologies and tools like React, Redux, Webpack, Gulp, and node.
- Participate in design and code reviews.
- Evolve our UI component library, standards and best practices to streamline development and ensure consistency across products.
The following experience is relevant to us:
- We value humility, a strong work ethic, flexibility, collaboration, technical curiosity, and constant learning.
- Experience with small teams that move fast -- all members are expected to be able to achieve maximum results with minimal direction.
- Has experience in technical leadership roles.
- Strong knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, CSS, modern JavaScript libraries, front-end tooling and performance.
- You have at least 7 years of hands-on experience as an Engineer, and 3 - 5 years experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, etc...)
- UI and/or unit testing with tools like Cypress, Jest, Enzyme, etc…
- Have a strong understanding in other domains, closely related to front-end systems (e.g. front-end to backend interaction patterns, backend architecture, A/B testing frameworks, etc)
Nice to haves:
- Familiarity with server-side MVC web frameworks, such as Django or Rails
- Design and UX skill set/experience
- Open source contributions to major projects
What we are offering:
- Career game changer – A truly unique experience to work for a fast-growing startup in a role with unlimited potential for growth.
- Excellent benefits – We cover up to 90% of Medical Premiums, 50% of Dental & Vision Premiums, and offer company sponsored Life Insurance.
- Flexible PTO policy, generous parental leave, 401k retirement savings plan, and great work/life balance – We value and support each individual team member.
- Fun perks like snacks, catered lunches, happy hours, wellness programs, and SpotHero swag.
- Annual parking stipend (duh – we help people park!).
- The opportunity to collaborate with fun, innovative, and passionate people in a casual, yet highly productive atmosphere.
- A workplace recognized as the Best Consumer Web Company by Built in Chicago, Top Company Culture by Entrepreneur, a Top Workplace by Chicago Tribune, and one of Chicago’s Best Places to Work for Women Under 35 by Crain’s Chicago Business.
Steps to apply: Please include any GitHub account, LinkedIn profile, and any project that you’re particularly proud of. We love seeing work that others loved working on.
NOTE:
- You must be legally authorized to work in the US. Unfortunately, the company is unable to support sponsorships at this time.