Front-end Engineer

KICKS, LLC
United States
2 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Job source

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Catalyst (Software) Software as a Service Github PostgreSQL Object-Relational Mapping Redis Software Engineering TypeScript WebGL
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ReactJS Stripe Figma Front End Software Development NestJS Webflow Terraform

Job description

  1. World-class team - Kick’s team has deep experience across AI, finance and startups-including a $250M exit with 5M users.
  2. Strategic investors - Backed by OpenAI Startup Fund, General Catalyst and 50+ investors from Stripe, Square and Notion.
  3. Challenge - Helping millions of individual Business Owners with a “hair on fire” problem with the potential to change an industry.
  4. Growth - Unique growth strategy focusing on Accountant partnerships.
  5. Value - Top of market cash and equity compensation., * Work closely with Design, Engineering and Growth teams. * Build performant beautiful, responsive websites and landing pages. * Help build and maintain Kick’s design system. * Implement creative animations and interactions in code. * Develop special projects to elevate Kick’s brand.

Requirements

We’re looking for a Front-end Engineer with a combination of exceptional taste and technical rigor to own our in-product user experience, marketing website & landing pages as we scale., * Has at least 5 years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on front-end development.

  • Strong familiarity with React and Typescript.
  • Has a sense for great user experience and feel when something is off.
  • Pays attention to detail and aims to provide our users with a delightful experience.
  • Has strong written and verbal communication skills and enjoys solving user problems.
  • Has a collaborative mindset and is open to feedback and iterative processes.
  • A portfolio showcasing a range of technical skills, a creative use of code, and prototyping skills in the form of webflow, microsites, webgl or anything else.
  • Collaborate through excellent written communication, B2+ English level for verbal communication

Bonus if you

  • Enjoy working in startups and have been part of a team during its growth stage
  • Have experience of building their own startup or working as a founding engineer
  • Have experience with modern frontend libraries (e.g. TanStack Query v4)
  • Experience with SMB, SaaS or fintech

Tech

  • TypeScript, React, NestJS (If you’re familiar with different stack don’t hesitate to apply)
  • Postgres, Redis
  • AWS, Terraform
  • OpenAI, Azure AI
  • TypeORM, React Query
  • Github, Slack, Linear, Figma

Benefits & conditions

  • Top of market salary and equity based on experience
  • Paid co-working space; best-in-class equipment
  • 20 days/year of paid vacation; meet ups in Palo Alto

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