Front End Engineer (NYC and Remote)

As a Front End Engineer at Handshake, you’ll build beautiful and responsive web applications that make use of our RESTful data-services. Working on the same team as Product Managers, Designers, iOS and Android Engineers, your applications will be a critical part of how products reach shelves worldwide.

Handshake connects great brands to local retailers and their customers. The software we build replaces the antiquated paper-and-clipboard-based systems used by brands and their salespeople, allowing for more products to reach more retailers with less cost, at greater speed and with less environmental impact.

The Problems You’ll Solve

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Handshake Engineers solve difficult technical problems to make the lives of our users easier. Some of the biggest challenges our Front End Engineers are solving right now are:

Handshake Direct

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Our iOS app replaces printed product catalogues, clipboards and order sheets, allowing sales professionals to quickly search a complex web of customers and products, and to even more quickly place an order for a new or existing customer. Handshake Direct extends this functionality allowing stores to buy directly from all their brands through a web application that’s improved daily by Front End Engineers. In addition to allowing our customers to customize their experience without their own web developer, we’re also working on building advanced search and recommendation capabilities.

Integrations Management

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Handshake has to seamlessly integrate with a complex ecosystem of sales software that brands use to manage their customer relationships, accounting and logistics. Working closely with Python Engineers, our Front End Engineers are helping to take the process of integration from months of programming to minutes of configuration, mapping, importing and exporting.

You’re a Great Candidate If You …

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• communicate and collaborate well
• take a pragmatic approach to programming
• care about technical excellence, but care even more about business value
• are a seasoned JS expert
• have experience with one or more front-end web UI frameworks (React/Redux, Backbone, Angular, etc.)
• have worked with git
• know your way around a *NIX machine

The Benefits of Working at ‘The Shake’

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• Comprehensive medical / dental benefits.
• Competitive salary / equity
• Spacious office in NoHo with plants, a shower, a fully stocked bar and plenty of bike parking
• A coffee mug with your name on it (well, just the first initial, but it’s still yours)