Lead Front End Engineer - remote

Showcase IDX
Posted 4 years ago

About You


  • You are motivated by working on hard and challenging problems rather than showing up just to check boxes.
  • You are driven by building a world class product and better user experience
  • You are passionate about building teams and delivering products.
  • You relish the opportunity to work with a product team, engineers, customer success and customers to ensure a surprisingly awesome customer experience.
  • You ask a lot of questions and love spirited yet professional debate, knowing it improves outcomes. You are comfortable navigating uncharted waters within the company.
  • You are motivated by creating your own path to delivering value and taking full advantage of personal empowerment.
  • You understand how to balance scope of work with execution, and believe that continuous improvement is a way of life.

Responsibilities


  • Deliver awesome, fun, engaging, and reliable solutions.
  • Collaborate with the team, partners and customers to provide accurate estimations, timelines, costs, and risks associated with development.
  • Create clear, concise deliverables that communicate your plans and allow the team to successfully execute ideas.
  • Actively participate in stand-ups, meetings, and design sessions.
  • Participate in code reviews, vendor selection, research, 1 on 1’s and discussion to help you and the team with professional development.
  • Be a mentor and functional manager to a software engineering team.
  • Ability to manage geographically distributed teams.

Requirements


  • 4-7 years experience building applications with NodeJS and React Js.
  • Are able to work in a fully-remote environment.
  • Experience with Webpack, Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, ElasticSearch, and Redis.
  • Experience in core aspects of web application development including design, development, architecture, separation of layers, configuration, performance, integration, analytics
  • 2+ years of experience Leading an Engineering Team using agile development methodologies.
  • Excellent Written and Verbal communication skills;strong interpersonal skills.
  • Detail-Oriented, self-started, motivated, results-driven, with high-level of energy, enthusiasm, and initiative.
  • Proficiency in managing npm dependencies and build systems.

Nice to have


  • Wordpress and PHP experience.
  • Experience using Kanban to meet deliverables.
  • Experience with kubernetes.
  • Experience with GraphQl
  • Experience with Typescript





How We Measure Success



First 30 days


  • Learn and become proficient in our code base.
  • Take over daily responsibilities of bug fixes and features of both our admin and customer facing products.
  • Help prepare the code base, processes, and assist hiring of team members.
  • You will start to contribute to our first major milestone project by supporting product development by adapting our current product to the needs of the first milestone project.
  • Architect and implement any UI/UX changes needed to make the current product work on both legacy and forward implementations.

30-180 Days


  • Assist in the hiring of additional team members.
  • Work on a long term plan for architecting and building front end applications.
  • Finish Implementation of initial mIlestone project.
  • Plain and start implementation of our next major milestone project.
  • Work on building a UI framework for implementing future milestones.

180-365 days


  • Lead a team working on building the next evolution of public-facing consumer home search tools and a suite of engagement (CRM-like) management tools on the backend.
  • Help plan implementation details for future milestone projects.
  • Work cross functionally with other teams to implement future milestone MVPs.

People You'll Work With



We are a highly collaborative and cross-functional organization. As you pursue your objectives and Showcase IDX’s goals, you will be working closely with: 


  • Scott Lockhart - CEO
  • Alan Pinstein - COO
  • Scott Davis - Director of Engineering
  • Kurt Uhilr - CMO
  • Tiffany Soucy - Customer Success Manager 
  • Andi Bodway-Werneth - Onboarding Manager





  • Compensation:



    In addition to a competitive salary, Showcase IDX offers:


    • Stock Option Grant 
    • Flexible PTO
    • Quality Medical + Dental + Vision
    • Tax-Free Flexible Health Spending Account
    • 401K with company match
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-term Disability Insurance
    • Long-term Disability Insurance