Frontend Developer

About the jobYou’ll join the front-end team which is responsible for building and maintaining our consumer-facing web application as well as our lender-facing SaaS web app. You’ll be working with a modern tech stack based on React, interfacing with our own RESTful API built in Node.js and hosted on AWS.

Broadly, the front-end team is responsible for:Architecting, programming, testing and deploying new features, improvements and bug fixes.Creating a genuinely delightful user-experience for our consumers and business users alike.Implementing web analytics and ‘growth’ engineering hacks throughout the products and website.Collaborating with our product designers, back-end team, QA/testers and customer success team to ensure the best possible outcomes for customers and end-users.Participating in code reviews and making sure we do all we can to build reliable, maintainable, scalable, performant and secure code.

As a member of the front-end team at NestEgg, you’ll ward off complexity and find a simpler path. You’ll fix bugs. You’ll go deep. You’ll learn from us and we’ll learn from you. You’ll have the freedom and autonomy to do your best work, and plenty of support along the way.

We work in an agile manner but in cycles rather than sprints. We each write brief daily asynchronous updates rather than daily standup meetings. Each development cycle lasts 6 weeks followed by 2 weeks to regroup, fix things that got missed, and ramp up for the next cycle.

About youYou'll have 2 to 5 years front-end programming experience on JavaScript (with the React library) and ideally for B2B SaaS and / or consumer-facing web applications. You won’t know how all the systems work on day one, and we don’t expect you to. Nobody hits the ground running. Solid fundamentals with software development, systems, troubleshooting, and teamwork pave the way.

You might have a Computer Science degree. You might not. That’s not what we’re looking for. We care about what you can do and how you do it, not about how you got here. A strong track record of conscientious, thoughtful work speaks volumes.

This is a remote job. You’re free to work where you work best, anywhere in the world: home office, coworking space, coffeeshops. We don’t have a central office, you should be comfortable working remotely—everyone here does!

Self-starters thrive at NestEgg. We’re committed generalists, eager learners, conscientious workers, and curators of what’s essential. We’re quick to trust. We see things through. We’re kind to each other, look up to each other, and support each other. We achieve together. We are colleagues, here to do our best work.

We value people who can take a stand yet commit even when they disagree. And understand the value in others being heard. We subject ideas to rigorous consideration and challenge each other, but all remember that we’re here for the same purpose: to do good work together. That comes with direct feedback, openness to each others’experience, and willingness to show up for each other as well as for the technical work at hand. We’re in this for the long term.

Company BenefitsBenefits at NestEgg are all about helping you lead a healthy life outside of work. Quality time to focus on work starts with quality time to think, exercise, cook a meal, be with family and friends—time to yourself.22 days a year paid vacation in addition to paid bank holidays plus an extra 2 days after two years.We provide a laptop for work.Subsidise coworking up to £200 per month.Monthly wellbeing allowance.Training, coaching and personal development.Fully-paid parental leave - statutory minimum in your home country.We match fund pension contributions up to 4% of gross salary.

Interview ProcessLet us know why you're interested in this position. Show us your role in NestEgg’s future and NestEgg’s role in yours. Address some of the work we do. Tell us about a newer (less than five years old) back-end technology you like and why. Link to examples of your work where relevant.

We’re accepting applications until Friday, January 19, 2024, at 4:00PM UK time. Keep your application (cover note) sharp, short, and get across what matters to you. We value great writers, so take your time with the application. We’re giving you our full attention.

We’ll schedule an initial‘screening’discussion soon after you apply and by January 26 at the latest. You’ll hear from us soon after that about whether you’ve advanced to the code assessment stage. If so, you’ll spend 3-5 hours on a programming exercise, over the course of a week. Then on to an interview. Our interviews are one hour, all remote, with your future colleagues. We’ll talk through some of your code and some of ours. No gotchas, brainteasers, or whiteboard coding. We aim to make an offer by February 16 with a start date a month or so after that.

Key Skills

• CSS
• Node.js
• React