Sr. Frontend Engineer

About Bobtail

Bobtail is dedicated to increasing happiness by eliminating inefficiencies in the supply chain.  We envision a supply chain without friction, fraud, waste, and abuse where companies succeed based on the value they create.  

We work uniquely at Bobtail, where we value teams over individuals and encourage experimentation and iteration to constantly improve.  Teams are given flexibility in working towards a shared purpose and given the freedom to decide how they will accomplish their goals.  

If you are an out-of-the-box thinker who takes a proactive approach to collaborating with others to solve problems and achieve your goals - we would love to talk to you.  

The things we value:

1. Mission
2. Teams over individuals
3. Collaboration
4. Communication
5. Iteration
6. Experimentation and failing fast
7. Initiative and solutions-oriented approach
8. Documentation
9. Data
10. Mental health and work-life balance
11. Diversity
12. Transparency

You should apply if you have:

• Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.
• 5 years or more experience contributing towards the frontend layer using Javascript frameworks. Vue.js is preferred
• Exert influence on the overall objectives and long-range goals of your team.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems, particularly at large scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
• Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Provide mentorship for Junior Engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy.
• Confidently ship moderately sized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.

You will be responsible for:

• Crafting user experiences that work on devices that our users use (primarily mobile devices and desktop browsers).
• Writing reusable, testable, efficient, and secure code.
• Working with large-scale, highly available and resilient modern financial systems.
• Working with automated deployment, enabling code release multiple times a day.
• Working with modern tools and languages that excite you.
• Being an integral part of a team, in addition to its culture and ways of working. Common practices include agile methodologies.

Some of the technologies you’ll get to work with:

• HTML, CSS, SCSS.
• Typescript & Javascript.
• Vue.js with Build Tools.
• Docker, AWS S3, and CloudFront.

Benefits

• Monthly Mental Break Day
• Paid Time Off
• Work from home (or wherever)
• Parental leave

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is Bobtail’s nucleus. We are an equal opportunity employer and embrace people of different backgrounds, cultures, religions, national origins, races, colors, genders, gender expressions, sexual orientations, ages, marital status, veteran status, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.