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Software Engineer, Frontend

Wealthfront · Palo Alto, CA · Hybrid

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About Wealthfront

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About the role

*This role supports US-based remote work, or Palo Alto, CA based hybrid in-office.

What they're looking for

  • 2-5 years in a web-focused engineering role
  • A deep understanding of JavaScript, including standard ES5+, native DOM APIs, and ideally at least one modern front-end framework (React, Vue, Angular, etc)
  • Experience with Ruby on Rails or similar server-side frameworks (such as Express or Django) is a plus
  • Experience working with design to build custom pages and components, with a focus on page speed performance and writing custom CSS to create pages that are responsive across a variety of screen sizes
  • Real passion for working on projects that have a measurable business impact and like working in a fast-paced cross-functional environment
  • Experience with test-driven development, continuous integration, and automated testing
More about this role

*This role supports US-based remote work, or Palo Alto, CA based hybrid in-office.

We’re looking for Software Engineers to join our team. As part of a cross-functional scrum team you will design and develop new products and features to help clients grow their wealth. In addition to building client facing features leveraging our in-house Design System components, you also work on improving our infrastructure and developer productivity and can have significant impact afforded by our cross-platform collaboration methods.

  • Collaborate with backend and mobile engineers, designers, and product managers to build new features and enhance existing features
  • Join other web engineers to triage and resolve operational issues, ensuring that mission-critical web systems and services operate smoothly across the web platform
  • Help with web platform infrastructure projects to improve the health and performance of our systems and increase product delivery velocity
  • Participate in recruiting activities such as interviewing
  • Provide mentorship to other engineers on the team
  • 2-5 years in a web-focused engineering role
  • A deep understanding of JavaScript, including standard ES5+, native DOM...

Read the full posting on Wealthfront's site ↗

Engineering - Frontend

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