The Role 
Do you have a track record of building both internal and external-facing software services in a fast-paced environment? Are you passionate about introducing disruptive and innovative software solutions for the $1T shipping and logistics industry? Are you ready to deliver immediate impact with the software you create?

We’re looking for frontend software engineers like you to become key members of our product development organization. Because you are curious and driven, you’ll naturally explore how to build UI-focused features that drive customer value and impact along the way. Because you value a sense of community and shared commitment, you’ll collaborate closely with others to ship software that delights our customers. Are you up for the challenge? 

Who You Are

• You have 5 years of software development experience with a frontend focus
• You deliver well-written software in JavaScript and are familiar with React
• You pay attention to details, and love writing beautiful, well-designed and tested code that can stand the test of time
• You’ve built high-quality software, solved technical problems at scale and believe in shipping software iteratively and often
• You’ve owned a project from concept to production including the design and execution phases
• You consider the effect of your work across multiple teams and proactively manage potential issues
• You build experiences for users that span their many devices and intents
• Significant practical experience with client-side JavaScript, CSS, component-driven UI development, and front-end tooling
• You have a thorough understanding of scripting in the DOM and the tradeoffs with frameworks
• You have solid engineering fundamentals
• You have a delivery-oriented mindset, with a focus on quality and testing

What You'll Do

• Build compelling and modular user interfaces for our software products
• Define reusable patterns that encourage and inspire your teammates to contribute UI code alongside you
• Craft, deploy and support performant production software on AWS, with a focus on frontend technology
• Share ownership of all facets of software delivery, including development, operations, and test
• Be a positive role model and mentor for junior developers in all areas of code health
• You’ll work alongside other engineers on product teams to build and improve user experiences
• You don’t mind pulling down the JavaScript framework of the day and play with it for a few hour
• Evaluate front-end technologies and contribute to decision-making conversations about applying them to your team’s product
• You’ll spend time with other engineers helping them level up their JavaScript skills
• MUST be located in the Austin or Chicago
• You will assume on-call responsibilities for systems that are built and owned by your team. If local regulations require – we will compensate you for the duration of on-call
• You will invest in tools, monitoring and automation to improve on-call experience for everyone on your team

Tech We Use

• We have a modern Javascript frontend built on Node, React/Relay, and GraphQL
• Our application stack runs entirely on Docker – frontend and backend
• Our infrastructure is on AWS and uses managed services whenever possible. Current examples: RDS, EC2 Elastic Container Service (Docker), Kinesis, SQS, Lambda and
  Redshift
• Java is our language of choice for long-lived backend services
• Python for tooling and data science
• Postgres is our SQL database of choice