Software Engineer, Frontend

Wealthfront is a financial technology company that builds digital products to help clients grow and manage their wealth. The Software Engineer, Frontend will develop client-facing features, improve web infrastructure and developer productivity, resolve operational issues, and collaborate with cross-functional engineering, design, and product teams.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with backend and mobile engineers, designers, and product managers to build new features and enhance existing features
• Join other web engineers to triage and resolve operational issues, ensuring that mission-critical web systems and services operate smoothly across the web platform
• Help with web platform infrastructure projects to improve the health and performance of our systems and increase product delivery velocity
• Participate in recruiting activities such as interviewing
• Provide mentorship to other engineers on the team

Requirements:

• 2-5 years in a web-focused engineering role
• A deep understanding of JavaScript, including standard ES5+, native DOM APIs, and ideally at least one modern front-end framework (React, Vue, Angular, etc)
• Experience working with design to build custom pages and components, with a focus on page speed performance and writing custom CSS to create pages that are responsive across a variety of screen sizes
• Real passion for working on projects that have a measurable business impact and like working in a fast-paced cross-functional environment
• Experience with test-driven development, continuous integration, and automated testing
• You have either a BS or MS in computer science or related field
• Experience with Ruby on Rails or similar server-side frameworks (such as Express or Django) is a plus