Senior Front End Software Engineer

| Greater NYC Area

EquityZen is an early-mid stage financial technology company, backed by leading venture and private equity investors. We’re looking for a Senior Front End Engineer to join our growing team and become a key contributor on our front end applications as we rapidly expand our industry-defining online investment platform. Our ideal candidate has production experience with React or a similar framework and is always thinking about performance, testability, and maintainability. They enjoy ideating and collaborating with designers and are passionate about pixel perfect interfaces. Our team is a group of ambitious, yet humble people across all disciplines and backgrounds. Have a look at our team and values and join us if you’re interested in these set of values.

Our platform enables large, private companies to deliver liquidity to their shareholders while providing investors access to invest in these proven, pre-IPO companies. EquityZen has served over 200 pre-IPO technology companies and is proud to be considered a liquidity provider for 1 out of 3 of the largest unicorns. A testament to EquityZen's secure, paperless, and industry-defining online investment platform, we have successfully completed 12,000+ private placement transactions. Focusing on automating an antiquated offline process has allowed us to lead the charge in building more efficient, cost-effective, and transparent private markets. Watch this short video to learn more: equityzen.com/press.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Champion all aspects of front end development
Assist in establishing technical direction for front end development including introducing patterns to make development simple, fast, and maintainable
Increasingly scale our marketplace as we aggressively increase both our investor base and equity offerings
Work hand-in-hand with designers, PM, business stakeholders and fellow engineers to ideate, design, and implement front-end experiences that are used by tens of thousands of customers as well as our internal teams
Work with cutting-edge technologies and introduce improvements to our stack, end-user experience, business processes, and workflows via rapid prototypes/proof-of-concepts
Mentor team members about front-end best practices

THE RIGHT STUFF

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or equivalent practical experience
3+ years of professional experience working with front-end applications in production
3+ years of professional experience with HTML5, CSS (SASS/LESS/CSS Modules), and JavaScript and/or TypeScript
Production experience working with React JSX and a state management library like Redux or mobx
Professional experience writing ES6/7 JavaScript and/or TypeScript and working with transpilers like Babel
Professional experience with NodeJS build tools e.g. gulp/webpack, scaffolding utilities e.g. create_react_app, and npm and/or yarn
Hands on experience working with GraphQL and RESTful APIs
Experience integrating artifacts from Sketch, SVG Icon Generators and similar apps
Experience working on a fast-paced, lean organization that is 100% accountable for its commitments
Able to take high-level requests, break them down to digestible tasks, and own them to completion
Experience mentoring junior engineers
Passion for maintainable code, automated testing, and thorough code review
Strong oral and written communication skills

OUR TECH STACK

EquityZen runs a robust stack which is containerized and deployed on Kubernetes in the AWS cloud. On the front end, we leverage React, Redux and GraphQL. On the back end, Django, Celery, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, and RabbitMQ.

BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE

Experience working with Apollo GraphQL client
Entrepreneurial experience and drive
Prior work in financial services or the FinTech sector
First hand understanding of marketplace businesses

EquityZen offers a competitive salary, stock options, full employee benefits (health, dental, vision), individual professional development and wellness budget, flexible paid time off, and more!

EquityZen is dedicated to prioritizing all employees’ health and safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. We have a new, socially-distant friendly office space where we have established strict protocols to protect the health and safety of all employees; however, working from the office is strictly voluntary until further notice.

EquityZen provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, EquityZen complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. EquityZen expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of EquityZen’s employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.

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