Front End Software Engineer

Description

Are you looking to join a growing successful and ambitious SaaS startup? Do you get excited about designing and building high-value, frequently-used features for users that rely on your products to execute their jobs every day? Are you looking for an opportunity to help a startup company achieve its next level of growth? Are you looking for a chance to further your personal development and growth? Do you want to learn and work with the latest technologies, including React, Python, GraphQL, AWS Lambdas, and MongoDB? If yes, then keep reading!

PerformYard has developed a simple and effective platform that helps drive staff performance through the roof. Our long-term vision is to change how performance is managed and measured in organizations of all sizes. To get there, we need to add to our fantastic team, and that’s where you come in!

The Front End Software Engineer is a crucial member of our product development team and collaborates closely with our UX/UI designer and other engineers to deliver innovative new features for our SaaS performance management products. Everyone on the product team contributes to new features that deliver our vision of simple, scalable, and effective software used daily by leading HR professionals.

A successful candidate at PerformYard will be a strongly self-motivated and driven individual who is efficient, detail-oriented, and organized in their approach to software development. This position has growth potential as our development team continues to grow.

Click this link to learn more about our SaaS platform: https://www.performyard.com/flexible-features

Requirements

As a Front End Software Engineer, you will work as part of a team developing end-to-end product capabilities that stretch from our front-end user interface using React/Javascript to back-end development using Python/MongoDB. Everyone on the product team contributes to new features that deliver our vision of simple, scalable, and effective software used daily by leading HR professionals.

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate on and develop the UI/UX of our employee performance SaaS product
• Architect and build the Front End of new features using React, Javascript, Redux, and other Javascript Frameworks
• Help define and refine our APIs
• Identify and resolve front-end performance bottlenecks
• Collaborate closely with product management, QA, and other engineering team members
• Understand product roadmap and requests and creatively implement those features into PerformYard production software

What You’ll Bring:

Must Have:

• 3+ years of Javascript, React, and Redux
• Experience with using REST APIs and preferably with GraphQL
• Prior experience working in an agile/scrum development environment
• Strong CSS and HTML skills

Should Have:

• Experience with additional Javascript frameworks in addition to React and Redux
• Experience with Figma Design and prior experience working with UI designers to collaborate on implementing front-end designs.
• Experience implementing analytics, charting, or reporting capabilities for a product
• Practical knowledge of and experience with NoSQL, preferably MongoDB and relational SQL databases

Nice to Have:

• Experience with the AWS stack, including Lambda Functions
• Experience developing, documenting, and versioning public REST APIs
• GraphQL experience
• Experience working with Docker
• Experience with automation testing tools like Cypress.io

Benefits

In addition to your compensation plan we also have medical, dental, and vision health insurance benefits w/ HSA plan, disability insurance, 401k plan, generous PTO, paid holidays and other benefits.