Senior Software Engineer, Frontend
Do you want to empower organizations to fairly and equitably hire, promote, retain and compensate their employees? Syndio is a Series-C technology company committed to fairness in the workplace. Fueled by investments of $83M from Bessemer Ventures, Voyager Capital and social change organization Emerson Collective, Syndio is investing in growing our team and products.
This is a critical moment when organizations are looking for ways to take tangible action to fight gender and racial bias, and we believe creating diverse and inclusive workplaces for all starts with workplace fairness.
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer who’s excited to solve technical challenges in a fast-paced startup environment. You will join Syndio at a critical moment, as we invest in our engineering and product teams to evolve the platform to meet increasingly complex user needs and expand our portfolio of products. You will deliver scalable engineering solutions and transform thoughtful, consistent designs into world-class applications and user experiences that ensure customers meet their pay equity and fairness goals.Â
Why this job is exciting
- Contribute to define a long term technical direction and vision for improving and scaling our product.
- Lead the design and development of new features and services delivered to Syndio end users, including defining Frontend architecture and optimizing Build pipelines.
- Implement pragmatic approaches to building enterprise software on a flexible and modern UI framework to deliver a high quality experience to our enterprise customers.
- Choose frameworks that grow with the needs of the team, product, and its users, and that strengthen performance and security.
- Work closely with cross-functional (backend, frontend, product, site reliability) teams to propose, evolve, and develop a user experience that makes lasting pay equity possible for customers.
- Work with the frontend and backend engineering teams to define requirements, collaborate on APIs, and develop a high quality frontend application and user experience.
- Design, propose, and implement consistent approaches, reusable and maintainable code libraries, and application design geared towards quality, maintainability, and user experience.
- Work with the design team to ensure designs are sensible and maintainable, and implement design systems and pattern libraries to support a growing team and platform.
- Contribute to the engineering organization’s best practices.
About You
- You have 7+ years of experience designing and building high volume, scalable SaaS applications.
- You are proficient with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React/Redux, Typescript and software engineering methodology with a focus on testing discipline.Â
- You are an expert in common front-end build pipelines and tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
- You have strong working knowledge of current testing methodologies including unit testing and end-to-end testing. (We use Cypress for e2e etc.)
- You’re an expert in current trends and best practices in front-end architecture, including performance, security and usability. You’re able to mentor peers and lead based on this expertise.
- Your application development and critical thinking skills enable you to focus on pragmatic platform requirements, while striving for a world-class user interface.
- You thrive working in a collaborative environment, with a team that communicates well and ensures they’re delivering on each other’s needs. You add positive energy to the team, and make your coworkers feel included in every interaction.
- You are a team player, able to work towards a common goal, while also speaking up to challenge assumptions and investigate better ways to solve customers’ root problems.Â
- You are passionate about our mission to close pay gaps and create fairness in the workplace.Â
- You’re excited to own and drive initiatives within Syndio that leverage and build your skills and interests.
- Bonus: 3+ years of experience debugging complex issues; you can debug a web application problem all the way from the browser, through the transport, to the application, servers, databases
- Bonus: Experience building full-stack applications
- Bonus: Use of continuous integration and delivery technologies at an expert level
- Bonus: Passion for continued learning and a track record of picking up new technologies and skills as you ship awesome code
Why you’ll love it here
- đź’° Competitive Compensation. For this role our base salary is targeted at $150k - $180k per year. Final offer amounts are determined by factors such as experience and expertise.
- 💸 Additional Incentive. This role participates in our annual performance bonus as well.Â
- 🏆 Syndio Equity. So you can share in Syndio’s success.
- 🏝 Flexible Vacation Policy. We encourage our team to recharge when they need to.
- Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- 🩺 Medical, Dental, Vision. Syndio pays 90% of employee premiums, and 50% for dependents.
- 🏥 Life Insurance & Disability. Syndio covers the full premium.
- 🏦 401(k). To help you save for your future.
At Syndio, we're building a diverse team that values candor, curiosity, and community. If you share these values and are interested in joining us, we'd love to talk with you even if you don't 100% meet the "about you" listed here. We don't expect anyone to have all the answers, as long as you're willing to learn and grow with us.
Employees joining the Syndio team at this early stage of growth will impact this critical social issue and support a growing customer base (including Nordstrom, General Mills, Match Group, and others) to take tangible action on workplace fairness.Â
Syndio is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are building an inclusive and collaborative workplace as we grow, and we welcome team members regardless of gender/identity, sexual orientation, race or cultural background, religion, physical disability and age.Â