Senior Front-end Engineer

The Company

Float is the world’s leading software for teams to plan their time. Launched in 2012, we’ve grown every year since, and remain proudly independent, self-funded and profitable. We’re a team of 46 working 100% remotely and you’ll be partnering with team members distributed across the world including Australia, Canada, Mexico and Taiwan. Hear what our team has to say by browsing our blog, or reading our Glassdoor reviews. Check out what our customers think of Float from our G2 reviews.

We’re on a scale up journey, and we’re seeking people who thrive in this stage, given the autonomy, and the opportunity, to do the best work of their career.

Role Summary

Our front-end team is responsible for our customer facing applications which are the primary method by which our customers get their value from Float. We support a web application, an iOS app, an Android app, and a desktop app (Electron), all of which share a considerable amount of code, and they are only getting bigger.

As our product continues to grow our customer base continues to grow with it. We are seeking a skilled engineer to help move things forward and also to provide the all important coverage and maintenance to ensure that we can continue to deliver the high quality experience that our customers have come to expect.

Requirements

We’re looking for a strong, seasoned engineer with at least six years experience in leading and shipping successful and demanding projects to a global audience, working as part of a small focused team to deliver objectives, being comfortable managing your time and communicating clearly with other members of the team.

You’ll be excited and eager to work on a sophisticated web application and solve data and presentation problems in a performant manner for our world-wide user-base. You’ll understand the commitment that requires but also the fascinating challenges it can present.

• You’d be described by your colleagues as a React expert and are completely comfortable working in an application written with React combined with Redux and Reselect for the state management aspects.
• You have a passion for usability and able to account for the needs and ergonomics of both the end users of our interfaces, and the developers that will build them.
• With respect to styling, we favor a CSS-in-JS approach that does not rely heavily on utility classes—no Tailwind here!
• We’re currently in the process of migrating our front-end codebase to TypeScript, so familiarity with that is crucial.
• In addition, you should be familiar with Jest or Vitest for all things testing and should be comfortable operating in a monorepo environment.

Experience with the following would be a big plus:

• Building Android and iOS apps with React Native
• Implementing Design Systems as a means to bridge the gap between design and development and provide a consistent user experience
• Accommodating accessibility standards and best-practices
• Working with distributed systems &

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