Senior Front End Engineer
ABOUT VTS
VTS is changing the way that commercial real estate (CRE) is done - disrupting a $3.4 trillion dollar industry by becoming the modern operating system for CRE. We invented the category of leasing and asset management, which allows landlords and brokers to manage their entire leasing process to maximize revenue and performance. Our success shows in our numbers - we’ve grown 123% annually since 2013, and today we have over 8 billion square feet of commercial space managed on VTS, and we’ve expanded to ~200 employees globally. It’s an exciting time to join the VTS team as we continue to scale!
Our headquarters are in NYC, but we have hubs in other major US cities and as well as in London, UK.
Learn more at vts.com or @viewthespace
ABOUT THE ROLE
Our mission is to be Commercial Real Estate’s modern operating system, the place where deals happen, customer relationships are nourished, and real-time market data comes to life. We're growing at an incredible pace and are looking for an experienced front-end engineer to join the Front End Platform team. This team is responsible for maintaining shared Javascript components, design patterns, and helps rollout sitewide changes.
The ideal candidate has a passion for user experience as well as meticulous attention to detail. While we want you to have a strong knowledge of Javascript and SPA frameworks, this is a full-stack role in the sense that we expect to you be able to offer insights about the service layer and APIs, and to jump in to help as needed.
What You'll Do
- Maintain and build out the style guide for visual design guidelines, React components, and CSS usage
- Assist us with our AngularJS to React migration
- Mentor and pair-program with other teams on best front-end practices including: review PRs, standard patterns, testing frameworks, instrumentation, and UX
- Work closely with engineers, product managers, designers, QA, and other business partners to discover and solve challenges for our customers
- Have organization-wide impact through your work, departmental initiatives like brown bags and recruiting, being a mentor or onboarding buddy, etc.
- How do we improve our page responsiveness and load times?
- Define and roll out UX patterns across multiple services
- Design gorgeous ways to display rich data and insights
You will also help internal teams think through...
Build Products That Help...
- Brokers and landlords manage the lifecycle of a commercial real estate deal - from inquiry to close
- Landlords manage relationships with their tenants (we analyze the graph of their relationships, provide insights to help close deals, expose risk, and more)
- Landlords and brokers shorten negotiation and approval times from weeks to hours when closing a deal
- Landlords analyze and understand risk in their assets
- Landlords explore the breath of their leasing data with custom reports and business intelligence software
About You
- 4+ years experience working with Javascript and a framework like React or Angular
- Familiarity with server-side programming and API design
- Experience delivering high-quality web applications for the consumer or enterprise
- Strongly values automated testing and implements good testing practices
- Practitioner and evangelist of agile software process and software design (experience with scrum, kanban, etc)
- Experience architecting solutions to problems in a thoughtful way - limiting number of technologies, ability to justify decisions, can articulate tradeoffs well, etc
- Experience collaborating with other engineers towards a common goal, leveraging code reviews, architecture design reviews, TDD, pairing, etc.
- Experience working closely with product managers and designers - strong customer empathy and desire to deliver a high-quality user experience
- Experience presenting technical projects and problems to non-technical folks and the ability to explain and justify the business reasons
Nice to Haves
- Experience working at a product focused company
- Experience working with our technology stack - AngularJS/React, Rails, PostgreSQL, Heroku, ElasticSearch
- Experience operating in mid-sized engineering teams (20-100 engineers)
We Take Care of You!
- Competitive compensation packages, including equity
- Great medical, vision, dental, and commuter benefits
- 401K plan
- Generous family policies
- Training and career development programs for everyone
- A company that embraces and celebrates diversity
- Fantastic location near Bryant Park with easy walk to most major subway lines (Grand Central, Penn Station & Times Square)
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Team lunches, company happy hours, ample snacks and drinks
VTS embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.