Front-End Engineer
Our mission at Talkspace is to make therapy affordable and accessible to everyone. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. Help over one million people feel better.
We’re looking for a Front-End engineer to push forward the experience, interaction and visual language of our products across the web. You’ll work closely with the creative director, product managers and engineering team to create user-centric, engaging and useful UX experience. Qualified candidates should be experienced interface designers with a love for making complex information easily accessible and meaningful for our users.
As part of our engineering team, you will be expected to challenge the status quo and bring new feature and interaction ideas to the table. Our brand has room for growth and innovation, and we are looking for a candidate who is driven and motivated by their passion for solving complex user experience problems through visual- and interaction design. We’re a nimble team, all open to working outside our comfort zones to realize ideas and we expect you to embrace the same attitude.
Requirements
You will have:
A minimum of 3yrs of experience working with Javascript, CSS3, and HTML5
Proficiency with Git
Experience with CSS-in-JS (Styled-components, emotion-js)
Passion for modern front-end frameworks (React, Angular, or Vue)
Experience working with designers to transform Sketch and/or Photoshop files into beautiful, fast customer-facing web pages that make a user’s day better (Note: We mainly work with Sketch)
Strong UX and design sensibilities, and a desire to sweat the small stuff
Strong communication skills, a positive attitude, and empathy
Self--awareness and a desire to continually improve
Bonus Points
Experience with automated front-end testing
Familiarity with React-Native
Experience with WebSockets
Benefits
Why Talkspace?
Because we are on a mission to make the world a better place. Our focus to help people feel happy starts at Talkspace, where we connect, collaborate, and have fun. Monthly team outings, happy hours, in-house family-style lunches, office snacks, unlimited PTO, access to Talkspace products, ping pong table, and competitive benefits are just some of the ways we make Talkspace a great place to work. Do you want to save the world? Come join us!
Talkspace is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants are considered for all roles without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, veteran or military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.