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Founding Front End Engineer (Full-Time)

Remote / NYC; Flexible Work Hours

About our company

We are a fast-growing stealth financial services startup seeking a talented front end engineer to join us in building a next-generation wealth management product.

Our mission is to be the world’s best custodian of financial assets, holding and protecting our clients’ life savings. We measure our success in the assets we are able to custody for our clients and aim to custody over $1 trillion in assets for clients globally.

We’re well-funded and backed by Bain and Spark Capital.

About the team

We are a high-performing team of seven designers, engineers and finance professionals. Our past experience includes time at Boxed, Brookfield, Buzzfeed, Facebook, Juniper Networks, Nasdaq, Stripe, Twitter, Two Sigma, and Vectra AI, and we studied at Brown, Caltech, Cambridge, Harvard, Oxford, Parsons, The University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, and Never-Attended-College.

We work both remote and in-person in NYC, and work hours are flexible. We’re committed to growing a long-term distributed team.

About the role

We are looking for a founding front end engineer who is excited to do everything involved in shipping great products, including hands-on engineering, collaborating closely with product and design, talking with customers, and setting direction for the company. You will have unparalleled autonomy and be execution-focused and self-sufficient. By joining as an early member of the team, you will shape everything that comes next.

Our web application is built with modern technologies, including TypeScript, React, NestJS, and Material UI.

Some traits that are important to us: hard-working, inclusive, and collaborative. And we’re looking for owners, so we hope you’ll help us expand this list.

What you’ll be responsible for

• Create a rich, modern application that you would trust with your own life savings
• Craft every detail of new product features, from idea to UX to pixel-perfect execution
• Work with designers to design UI components and establish style guidelines

Qualities we’re looking for

• Experience building desktop web applications using JavaScript/TypeScript, including asynchronous programming, closures, types, and ES6
• Expert knowledge of HTML and CSS, including layout, specificity, cross browser compatibility, and accessibility
• Enjoy writing clean and performant code
• Value writing tests and code that is easily used in tests
• Experience shipping features or products
• Experience using React, Vue, or Angular
• Excited to collaborate with designers to deliver the product vision

What you could work on next week

• Build how clients interact with and fund their accounts
• Collaborate with designers to develop opinionated core component and layout libraries
• Develop our internal literate design guide
• Work with the rest of the team to set overall company direction

Salary Range: $140,000-$180,000 base.