The Frontend Engineer will collaborate with design and product teams to create responsive user interfaces, write maintainable code, and optimize performance for a financial platform.
Drivetrain is on a mission to empower businesses to make better decisions. Our financial planning & decision-making platform helps companies scale and achieve their targets predictably.
Drivetrain is a remote-first company headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 2021 by a couple of ex-Googlers, Drivetrain is a fast-growing company on a trajectory for success with backing from leading venture capital firms.
Drivetrain provides a great culture for its employees to thrive in and be happy.
💜 Remote-friendly: Drivetrain brings together the best and the brightest, no matter where they are and provides them a great degree of autonomy. We trust our people.
🗣️ Open & transparent: We know that when our creators have access to all the information they need, their best work will emerge.
👏 Idea-friendly: We provide an environment to explore new ideas, to take risks, to make mistakes, and to learn, so you can succeed. Anyone in the company can come up with great ideas and become a catalyst for positive change. We let the best ideas win.
👥 Customer-centric: We follow a product-led growth strategy, continuously learning from our customers and collaborating to build the amazing software that Drivetrain is.
About the role
Drivetrain is looking for a Frontend Engineer to join our team. You will closely interact with designers, product owners, and other engineers and implement the user interfaces that define our core platforms.
What you’ll be doing
Work closely with design, product and engineering teams to create elegant, accessible, responsive and interactive interfaces.
Handcraft UI/UX designs into prototypes, create awesome interactions, write reusable components and address performance issues of the product.
Work on complex yet performant, deep yet elegant frontend components like a data visualisation system to create beautiful charts/tables and a spreadsheet-inspired business modelling system.
Help set up processes to guarantee the long-term success of Drivetrain's engineering team.
Requirements
1 to 3 years of relevant work experience as a web, UI, JavaScript or frontend engineer with sound knowledge in Javascript, HTML and CSS, and a strong eye for design, with experience debugging using browser console.
ReactJS and Data structure skills are important.
Be able to write clean and maintainable code with attention to performance, but also be able to ship quickly.
An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment and bring in optimal flow for rapidly changing design.
Java and AWS experiences are a plus although not mandatory.
Sounds exciting? Apply at [email protected]. It may just be the next best decision you’ve ever made!
Sounds exciting? Apply at [email protected]. It may just be the next best decision you’ve ever made!
Top Skills
AWS
CSS
HTML
Java
JavaScript
React
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