Experienced Front End Web/React Developer (with Shopify) - remote

Whitespectre
Posted 1 year ago

Whitespectre
is a product-centric, technology consultancy for both VC funded start-ups and large, established companies across the US and Europe. We’re also a product incubator with our own applications and B2B SaaS platform. As long-term partners to our clients, we’ve played a critical role in their growth- both through the products we co-create and the expertise and processes we bring. Proudly remote first since 2013, we’re a close-knit team of 75, working in fast-moving, cross-functional agile pods to solve interesting technical challenges and drive real business impact.


What's it like to be an Engineer at Whitespectre?
  • All of our engineers are sharp technical experts with the ability to think like product owners - being able to advocate for code quality as a long-term strategic investment while knowing when to adapt a more start-up mentality to deliver rapid business value. They work with the team to make architecture and implementation decisions, and stay up to date with the latest technologies and approaches.
  • Our Frontend engineers live and breathe pixel perfect design, highly performant frontend implementations and are always implementing for multiple devices.
  • Whitespectre projects use a fully-modern tech stack- toolset includes Node.js/Express, ReactJS, Typescript, Webpack, Shopify, REST/GraphQL, Rails, Postgres, Elastic, CI/CD with Docker, Heroku/AWS, etc. Working smartly is important to us;automation, dynamic environments spin up with new feature branches and slack bot integrations control our production releases.
  • The majority of our projects involve building greenfield applications and our delivery teams typically own products end to end - your thinking and contribution make a big impact! 
  • You can read more about life in our engineering team in this blog post by our Senior Engineer, Eneko.

Benefits
  • Competitive salaries, with payment in USD
  • Annual Performance &Salary Reviews, with structured, supported &proactive career management
  • 20 Days PTO &3 Charity Days annually
  • Funded face-to-face meet ups in Barcelona, as well as South America and Asia
  • Assisted Relocation package up to $5k
  • Flexible working hours for efficient teaming in a 100% remote environment (proudly remote-first for 9 years!)
  • Free English classes &educational expenses support
  • Generous Employee Referral Plan
  • Team Fitness and Charity Initiatives

Cultural benefits

In addition to the above benefits, we foster an inclusive working environment that provides:
  • Great company environment - check out Glassdoor
  • On-going career guidance &support with your Capability Leader and Mentor working with you to achieve your goals
  • Personalized onboardings
  • Opportunity to contribute to company-level initiatives
  • Work with a broad range of best-in-class technologies
  • Cross-company knowledge groups - improve your expertise, share your learnings and work with different technologies and tools
  • Regular brown bag learning sessions
  • An emphasis on work-life balance

   This is the right position for you if want-
  • To build frontends on Shopify or other headless commerce platforms
  • The challenge of collaborating with business stakeholders and Product Managers to advocate for technology solutions while bearing in mind the tradeoffs for business results
  • The responsibility of designing new architectures and being confident to justify your technology decisions. (Plus debating and recognizing when a colleague has an even better idea!)
  • The opportunity to go outside your core expertise and strengthen skills with other technologies and learn more
  • An environment where excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) are valued and honed.
  • A culture where people from different backgrounds interact, collaborate and reach a shared goal

The “check the box” Requirements
  • 3+ years of experience in software development, 3+ years of HTML/CSS/animation/ Javascript) experience
  • Have worked on Shopify projects with multiple developers on the team
  • Experience contributing to technical decision-making within a team
  • Can work full-time with a significant crossover with the core hours: 11 am - 7 pm Central European Time
  • Live outside of the US. Please, no recruitment agencies.

Interested in applying?
  • Apply by completing the form below - and we’ll get back to you. Candidates enjoy meeting our FE Technical Leads, and discussing interesting coding challenges as part of our updated selection process.
  • Or email us with any questions on frontend-jobs@whitespectre.com.
  • Our process includes the following:
    • A 30 minute video call with our Talent Acquisition team to understand your experience &expectations
    • A 60 minute technical interview including a live code working sessions with a lead engineer to explore your technical capabilities
    • Final interview(s) with the company leadership to confirm fit &finalize your offer