Flexport is hiring a senior front-end engineer

Flexport (YC W'14) is a platform for global trade. We help companies ship products around the world, using modern web software to automate the phone- and paper-based processes in a traditional freight forwarders. Our mission is to fix the user experience in global trade and unite the world in a seamless web of commerce. As Paul Graham says, "Flexport is one of those rare startups that will not merely satisfy its market, but grow it. There will be more international trade because of Flexport, and international trade is a very big thing for there to be more of." We are looking to hire a senior front-end engineer to join our team in San Francisco. This is a high impact and high ownership opportunity for self-starters interested in solving real-world problems and streamlining the inefficient industry of global trade. You’ll report to our CTO, Amos Elliston, who previously co-founded Geni, where he helped build and spin out Yammer. What You’ll Do Create tools that make it easier for companies of all sizes to participate in global trade Help build intuitive, highly efficient and performant interfaces to automate the repetitive parts of logistics What You’ll Need * Awesome coding skills and Computer Science fundamentals * Next-level analytical problem solving talent * Experience in a fast-paced work environment. You ship quality code quickly. * A product-first approach to building software. You care about the real world functionality of your programming. * Experience with one or more modern javascript frameworks. Our Stack In the front-end, we serve a few isomorphic single-page apps using React for the views, organize the data flow with Flux architecture, and test our application with Jest. We use a hybrid version of Bootstrap styles mixed with hand-built Sass components as our CSS library and are moving away from Bootstrap as we continue building our apps. We follow OOCSS methodology and use Hologram for documentation. On the backend, we're a Rails shop riding on AWS and Postgres RDS. Using Rspec we believe in just enough testing to provide full coverage without introducing a lot of change friction. Our architecture is light-weight and modular in nature adhering to the fat models, skinny controllers ideology. Our Process Flexport engineering is a close-knit team where everyone reviews each other’s Github pull requests. We are expected to learn from our peers and help others learn. Code is released almost everyday or whenever business requires. Our continuous releases are integrated with Travis and Github. Benefits * Competitive salary * Full Medical, Dental, and Vision Package * Considerable equity in a company growing at breakneck speeds in an enormous market * Come talk to us about the chance to forever change the face of global trade in a professional atmosphere that encourages individuality and responsibility.