Overview

The Sill seeks a Front-end Engineer who is passionate about crafting exceptional customer experiences at scale to join our newly formed Engineering team. This position requires that you put users’ experience first, building with a keen eye for layout and responsive design. You would be one of the first engineering hires in an early stage, fast-growing startup. As a core member of the engineering team, you will have a strong impact on the future of The Sill.

Location

This role will be located at The Sill’s headquarters in New York City.

Reporting

This role will report to the Senior Engineer.

Role Description

In this role, you will work on crafting, testing, and launching new features of The Sill’s UX in addition to refactoring existing components, with a focus on well-documented, efficient code that is cross-browser compatible. You have worked on cross-functional product teams before, and enjoy finding optimal solutions that balance usability, flexibility, engineering investment, and business implications. Adapting to new technologies quickly doesn't throw you, and you know how to use the right-sized approach for each problem. A true team player, you're always on the hunt for ways to raise code quality and improve future developer experience. Finally, you hold your work to high standards and don't shy away from owning ambitious projects.

Areas of Responsibility

• Improve The Sill’s current technology stack keeping both customer and employee experience top of mind
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, specifically marketing, to design, develop and launch new web-facing features with the distinct ability to move between projects, understand business needs, and business wide implications, and be consultative throughout 
• Work with UX design team to produce tight, forward-thinking, responsive and scalable front-end experiences on desktop, mobile devices and email 
• Add/modify sections/snippets/templates to existing Shopify theme 
• Document and adhere to coding standards to ensure high-quality work across all projects
• Debug and troubleshoot issues across all layers of our tech stack

Qualifications 

• 2-3+ years of responsive website development
• Demonstrate a mastery of HTML & CSS/SCSS
• Experience with Shopify, especially Shopify Slate and Liquid
• Experience with JavaScript, especially Vanilla JS and JQuery 
• Experience with CSS frameworks, especially Foundation or Bootstrap
• Experience with APIs, especially Shopify’s REST and GraphQL endpoints
• Experience with versioning, especially git/yarn/npm (Show us your GitHub!)
• Deep understanding of cross-browser/platform, device testing, and debugging
• Ability to work off a mockup (ex: PDF/Sketch) to convert designs into frontend code
• Ability to communicate effectively, regardless of the audience

Key Traits

• You are a self-starter who can work with ambiguity and thrives in a fast-paced, startup environment.
• You document your code and likewise prefer to use well-documented frameworks.
• You seek and prefer simple solutions to complex problems.
• You maintain a healthy balance between perfectionism and actually getting stuff done.
• You understand how to identify and remedy performance bottlenecks.
• You are a strong team player and have the ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
• You are attuned to the fundamentals of user design and user experience for a consumer product, while also understanding the tradeoffs between design and performance.

Benefits

• Company contribution to medical and dental 
• Company paid short term disability 
• Company paid life insurance 
• Unlimited discretionary time off 
• Company paid parental leave 
• Access to vision, 401k, long term disability and discounted gym memberships 
• Access to commuter benefits, HSA and other tax advantages 
• Company cell phone or stipend provided 
• Yearly stipend for Learning & Development opportunities

About The Sill

The Sill is the first digitally native, direct-to-consumer plant brand. Our mission is to bridge the gap between people and plants, because Plants Make People Happy. Founded in 2012, The Sill is Series A funded and headquartered in New York City’s Seaport District. We ship potted plants nationwide from TheSill.com and have planted The Sill brick-and-mortar stores in New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Learn more at www.thesill.com.