Role overview

Lead Frontend Engineer (US Based)

Requirements and responsibilities

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Who you are

  • You love writing frontend code
  • You write clean code, take pride in class design and choose the right level of abstraction
  • Tests are your best friend (you can't write too many!)
  • You can move fast and take quick decisions
  • Assume others will look at your code and document accordingly
  • Assume users will do the unexpected and handle error conditions
  • Act as a technology generalist, bringing our vision to life will be a challenge.

Qualifications

  • We require that you have a history of building responsive and clean user experiences in React, JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
  • We strongly believe in a person's ability to grow but we would like to see at least 7-10 years of professional software engineering experience.
  • We require you to collaborate with cross functional stakeholders so we would like to see a proven track record of collaboration with Product Managers, Designers and Backend engineers

Nice to haves

  • Familiarity with Ruby on Rails
  • Familiarity with SQL, databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL
  • Experience with Agile Methodologies
  • Experience building SaaS Platforms
  • Start-up experience
  • Bachelors or masters degree in Computer Science or a related field

Culture

  • Governance and risk is not a traditionally exciting space however the Themis founding team have a history together which makes building the product fun and approachable.
  • By default we believe in people and give them every opportunity to grow. We believe Themis will succeed when team members are given autonomy to solve problems creatively.
  • We encourage people to research and leverage innovative tools that can be applied to a traditionally sleepy industry.
  • We are focused on speed and quality and are not afraid to cut scope to uphold our standards. To achieve these standards we use modern tools with minimal process and focus on the problems of the day.
  • And most importantly, we want you to bring your personality to work and have fun!
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FocusFrontend DevelopmentRole area
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