About Treehouse
Treehouse is a venture-backed startup company that simplifies the electrification of the places where we live and work. Through Treehouse, customers experience a seamless electrical installation process from start to finish, powered by a software-enabled electrician workforce.
About the Role
The ideal Frontend Software Engineer candidate will be at the forefront of delighting customers to advance the electrification movement. Their technical skills, grounded in a deep understanding of JavaScript, will be enhanced by a passion for performance, user empathy, an appreciation for intuitive semantic UX, and creative approaches to building solutions that solve customers' needs
Responsibilities
The Frontend Software Engineer will:
- Design and build performant, beautiful, and usable interfaces
- Foster a culture of upholding industry-leading UX
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve customer needs
- Continuously improve our engineering processes, tools, and systems that allow us to scale the code base, productivity, and team
- Recruit, interview, and develop interview questions while fostering a culture of excellence, velocity, and humility, and inspire and mentor less experienced engineers and interns
Minimum Qualifications
Successful Frontend Software Engineer candidates will demonstrate:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; in lieu of degree, equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of frontend engineering experience with server-side web technologies (eg: Node.js, Java, Python, Scala, C#, C++, Go)
- Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, or VueJs/Ember)
Preferred Qualifications
Additionally, successful Frontend Software Engineer candidates may demonstrate:
- Experience leading large multi-quarter efforts demonstrating tangible customer or business impact
- Experience in an early-stage startup environment
- Performance motivated by delivering customer value
- Passion for user experience and design, and current trends and best practices in front-end architecture, including performance, accessibility, security, and usability
- Experience with cloud technologies (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, or Kubernetes)
This role may be based in San Francisco CA, Chicago IL or Louisville KY. The salary range for this position is $135,000 - $160,000 annually, plus equity and benefits. This is a good faith estimate of what Treehouse may pay for a new hire; actual pay may vary based on prevailing wages in geographic location and a candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, related experience, education, certifications, and ability to meet required job qualifications.
Featured benefits include:
- Medical insurance
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- 401(k)
- Unlimited paid time off
Learn more about us at treehouse.pro!
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