Front End Engineer
CLEAR transforms what is uniquely you – your fingerprints, your face, your eyes – into a secure, biometric key to frictionless experiences. We are creating a world where travel is effortless, where accessing your office building is as simple as walking in, and where shopping is as easy as walking in and out of a store—without ever once showing an ID or credit card. CLEAR currently powers secure, frictionless customer experiences in nearly 40 U.S. airports and venues. With over 3 million members so far, CLEAR is the identity platform of the future, today.
CLEAR is seeking a full stack engineer to join our technology team in order to develop, maintain, and grow our web-based applications. We are looking for innovative technologists who are problem-solvers at heart, and can utilize their skills to ultimately have an enormous impact on CLEAR by elevating our web-based applications to the next level. If you thrive on a challenge, then we have an opportunity for you at our rapidly expanding company.
What You Will Do:
- Design, support, and develop advanced, high traffic web-based JavaScript applications.
- Own technical design, implementation, and enhancements of CLEAR’s NodeJS backend.
- Contribute to front-end components and designs using React and GatsbyJS.
- Design and implement integrations with internal and external APIs and platforms.
- Collaborate with team members to identify and offer recommendations for process improvements.
- Collaborate with technical and non-technical colleagues to develop solutions to meet our business needs.
Who You Are:
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills – you will work in a team.
- Great attitude toward working closely with others and valuing others’ ideas.
- A true passion for technology.
- A hard worker that can thrive in an entrepreneurial environment.
- An individual who is resourceful and intellectually curious, and loves to constantly solve problems.
- 4+ years of experience with Node JS and express (or similar).
- 2+ years of experience with hands-on front-end development.
- Experience with rapidly growing startups and matured organizations is a huge plus.
Technical Skills Required:
- NodeJS, express, HTTP technologies
- Front end JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue, etc.)
- User Experience (UX)
- Webpack and other build tools
- Unit testing and end to end testing
Technical Skills Desired:
- TypeScript experience is a plus
- GatsbyJS, graphql
- Web Security best practices
- CMS experience is a plus
- Accessibility best practices
- Monitoring, logging
- Performance measurement and optimization
- Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)
- Docker