Software Engineer (Frontend)

About Traba

Traba is a technology company that enhances the productivity of the light industrial supply chain. We connect businesses with vetted workers to meet their staffing needs by leveraging location monitoring, predictive algorithms, machine learning, AI, computer vision, and other advanced technologies. Our mission is to empower both businesses and workers to reach their full productivity and potential. We’re proud to be backed by some of the world’s best investors, including Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst.

We are seeking an experienced & entrepreneurial front-end engineer to join the founding team to help build our core suite of products—mobile apps for both workers & business, and web platforms for our business customers and our internal Ops team. You'll partner with our CTO to help own product decisions, iterate on the product roadmap, and architect & build our foundational tech platform.

About You:

Voracious learner. You love diving into new areas and exploring new languages, frameworks, and technologies, and can discuss product with a UX designer one minute and deployment infrastructure with tech leads the next. Value clear communication. You recognize the importance of clear communication, documented planning, and transparent, frequent feedback. Sweat the small stuff. You have strong opinions on design patterns, IDEs, tabs vs. spaces—you understand that how you do one thing is how you do everything, so you care about the details. Deep expertise building pixel-perfect, performant web applications. You have designed and built performant, scalable applications, and have expertise in client side state management, responsive design, and frontend tooling.

You Will:

• Lead the development of our web & mobile applications, guiding other engineers as needed
• Establish best practices in code reusability and build processes for our frontend monorepo
• Collaborate with product & design to build a best-in-class user experience
• Build analytics & monitoring to help understand our user experience & application health
• Contribute in a ton of other ways to a scrappy founding team building the future of flexible light industrial staffing!

You Have:

• 3+ years experience with Typescript/Javascript, and React or React Native
• A track record of shipping amazing products
• Pixel-perfect attention to detail
• Experience building APIs is a plus
• Experience working in an early-stage engineering team, working through ambiguity, and being a self-starter
• A passion for helping people find meaningful work that works for them

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