Front-end Engineer

WhereTo is a venture backed startup that inspires and empowers today’s corporate travelers with an AI-based travel experience. We are a team of fifteen engineers, artists, and entrepreneurs re-imagining corporate travel from our HQ in San Francisco. Our commitment to innovation has attracted partnerships with Fortune 100 companies and won us accolades in TechCrunch, Life Hacker, and more.

We are looking for a Front-End focused developer with an interest in fullstack development to be a pivotal member of our dev team. You will be working closely with product managers and developers who like to use lots of interesting technologies to develop core features used across the Wherefor platform. A great fit for this role is someone who is always intrigued by new technology and is constantly finding better ways to write beautiful, shareable, and solid code.

NOTE: You may be asked to take an automated technical screener as part of our interview process.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for building components for the user interface (UI); utilizing various JavaScript libraries and tools such as React.js, Redux, and Node.js/npm.
• Helping the team code with performance, scalability, and usability in mind.
• You will live and breathe the virtual-DOM, pure reducers and immutable data structures.

Requirements

• 4+ years experience in front end development
• Strong experience in React.js or other web framework (Vue.js, Angular, Ember, etc.)
• Experience with state containers (i.e Redux, Alt, Flux)
• Experience with modern JavaScript (ES6, Babel, FlowType and/or TypeScript, Webpack)
• HTML5 (specifically dealing with IE quirks)
• JavaScript testing experience (Mocha, Jasmine and Jest)
• Experienced in Agile development and TDD / BDD
• Able to iterate quickly
• Strong understanding of Git fundamentals
• Experience with pure-functional programming is a bonus (Ramda, Lo-Dash FP, etc)
• Interest in full-stack development is a bonus.
• You have not attended or graduated from a coding school such as Hack Reactor in the last 3 years

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• An opportunity to get in on the ground floor with significant equity upside
• Medical, Dental and Vision
• Paid annual vacation
• Cheap flights to anywhere in the world
• Generous PTO to take advantage of those vacation spots
• Gym Stipend