Senior Front-End Engineer

The Cadre team is growing. We believe software is not only eating the world, it’s eating finance, and we’re feeding the beast. We’re building, from the ground up, a technology-driven trading platform for the coveted commercial real estate asset class, previously only accessible to the largest institutional investors.

Because we’re passionate about opening access to this historically exclusive marketplace to an ever broader group of participants, we’re relentlessly building an experience so intuitive and efficient individuals and institutions alike are empowered to invest. With technology as our core engine, we’re also engineering machine learning and data science strategies to accelerate discovery and vet better assets, faster.

Cadre has raised roughly $70 million to date, from outstanding venture investors including Khosla Ventures, Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, and Goldman Sachs, who have backed such companies as Spotify, Oscar, Jet, Stripe, Slack, ZocDoc, Github, Airbnb, and Snapchat.

Join our team, with individuals from Google, MongoDB, Square, Amplify, and Mint.com. We’re looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer with a front-end focus driven to solve hard problems in novel, elegant ways, and grow highly scalable systems. As such, you play a key role in shaping our team, our roadmap and our technical strategy. You work daily with fellow designers and software engineers to enhance our platform, bringing high quality investment opportunities to investors.

What you’ll do

• Help mentor a small, growing team of Engineers as we constantly enhance our technical stack and accelerate feature development
• Build high-availability and security into our core architecture to ensure we deliver a robust, fast end-end experience for our investors
• Rapidly scale Cadre’s marketplace, as we aggressively grow both our investor base and the number and types of assets we manage
• Design and implement our financial and transactional systems to power seamless funding and cash distribution events
• Build data-centric services to maximize market analysis efficiency, and deliver market insights,
• Write modular, high-quality code while actively engaging in peer code reviews

Your expertise

• Expert-level knowledge of Javascript and advanced design patterns
• 5+ years of front-end experience working with HTML5, CSS3, Javascript
• Have experience constructing interactive web applications using modern Javascript frameworks (Angular.js, React.js, Ember.js, etc…)
• Experience and experience with setting up well functioning CI environment for UI layer specifically using tools such as gulp/grunt/bower
• An eye for designing a well-functioning RESTful API
• Strong understanding of design patterns in your work
• A strong passion for engineering and the a sense of ownership of your code and outcomes
• Experience with test automation, continuous integration and deployment
• Familiarity with Agile software development methods
• Great written and verbal communication skills, comfortable discussing technical problems with peers
• Self starter, thriving in a startup environment

Our Tech Stack

Cadre runs a modern, service-oriented stack, continuously integrated and deployed (Jenkins, Ansible) on AWS: React + Redux, Immutable.js, Stylus, Node, Koa, Python, Django, with a combination of SQL (Postgres) and NoSQL (Redis) data stores.

The majority of our time is spent in that environment, but our goal is to always utilize the best tool for the job: you’ll be working with members of our team to keep refining our toolset.

Perks

• Our biggest asset? Our team members and culture: join a fun and driven environment to work with, learn from, and mentor some of the brightest engineers in the industry, equally intent on building a great business as on celebrating each victory.
• 401(K), significant equity, full Healthcare coverage and unlimited PTO
• Amazing office space in the heart of SoHo with fully stocked kitchen (No water bottles though, we are green conscious!)
• Fun company offsites

What’s Next?

Interested yet? To hear more, please send your resume over. Please feel free to provide any coding samples (Github, Stackoverflow, etc…) or blog posts, we’d love to take a look!