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Staff Frontend Engineer

United States - Remote, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 25 Jan 2023

About the role

Canopy is a fast growth early stage startup looking for a seasoned Front End Engineer. In this role, you will be making long-term architectural decisions and leading front end work across all our products. You will be directly responsible for building Canopy’s baseline infrastructure, platform infrastructure, and our reusable component library.

This role is perfect for you if you are obsessed with great user experience, building cutting-edge products, component libraries, and mentoring a small but talented team of engineers. You consider yourself full-stack – you lean towards FE work, but you’re not afraid to get your hands dirty in the API and backend when needed.

Responsibilities

Be the primary stakeholder on decisions and buildout of our core front end infrastructure that we will use for years to come.

Collaborate closely with Product and Design to build flawless user experiences that sets the new gold standard of UX for financial products.

Work closely with Design to harden and expand our front end component library, Aura.

Formalize and enforce robust automated testing best practices for the front end.

Mentor a small but mighty team of passionate front end engineers.

Requirements

B.S. in a technical degree or equivalent professional experience.
5+ years of experience with modern web frameworks.
Deep expertise of JavaScript (ES6+), Typescript, HTML, and CSS. You know when JS is unnecessary!
Demonstrated knowledge of data structures and asynchronous programming.
Experience and a passion for creating robust, reusable component-based design systems.
An appreciation for great design and a keen eye for intuitive user experiences.
Experience being a tech lead on projects or teams of 5+ people.
Experimental mindset to tackle challenging engineering problems.

Bonus Points:
Experience with server-side rendering frameworks like NextJS.
Experience with state management libraries like Redux or XState.
Experience in Serverless AWS.
Fluency with writing frontend unit and e2e tests with frameworks like Jest or Cypress.
Enthusiasm for functional programming.
Experience in the fintech industry.
You have an up-to-date online presence.

Benefits

A culture of growth – Get in now and grow with us!
Competitive Comp – Our comp package in the 90th percentile of startups our size
Unlimited PTO – Flexible Vacation
Stock Options
Modern parental leave policy
401k matching
Excellent health, vision, and dental insurance package with multiple options
$1,000 new hire home office set-up stipend
Monthly stipend for mental and physical wellness
Monthly stipend for coffee, lunch, snacks, etc.
Yearly team offsite somewhere amazing

We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but feel your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

About Canopy

Canopy is a remote-first Series A startup that adds a keystone technology to the BaaS stack. Canopy’s low-code solution helps fintechs, banks, credit unions, and brands to launch and sustain new financial products. We support installment lending programs, revolving lending programs (credit cards, charge cards, lines of credit), and even more unique customizable programs (such as multi-advance or MCA programs) that make sense for your team's business model. Check out our documentation at https://learn.canopyservicing.com/

Canopy is a values-based business that believes we can have a huge impact, and do it in a way that we all are proud of. We value empathy towards our customers, our teammates, and ourselves. Individuals that have a history of and enthusiasm for radical transparency, and who understand the importance of gratitude and of celebrating every step forward (and the occasional step backward), will do well here.