Senior Front End Developer

About Float

Float is on a mission to simplify finance for Canadian businesses, empowering them to eliminate complexity and unlock new opportunities. Through our innovative platform, Float enables businesses to streamline financial operations and optimize cash flow, so they can focus on what matters most: growth. 

As one of Canada’s fastest growing companies and top-rated startups in 2024 and 2023, Float is customer-obsessed, passionate and entrepreneurial, with a team that includes leaders from Uber, Shopify, Top Hat, TouchBistro, and Ada.

At Float, everyone is an owner, bringing their unique perspective to our team and product. Your voice is important, and we take having a culture based on feedback seriously. We openly share our thoughts and differing opinions so we can continue to improve. We do our best to keep our decision-making decentralized so that all team members feel ownership in our success.

Our product

Float is Canada's complete business finance platform, combining modern financial services and software to help businesses spend, save, and grow. Trusted by 4,000 Canadian companies, Float provides high-limit corporate cards, automated expense management, next-day bill payments, high-yield accounts and fast, friendly support—all built in Canada, for Canada. Float is backed by world-class venture and fintech investors, including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives and OMERS Ventures, partners behind our $70 million Series B raise. 

Our team is a collection of ambitious, collaborative and mission-driven people from all walks of life but with one goal: helping Canadian companies not just survive but thrive. And we’re looking for bold innovators to help shape the future of business finance in Canada.

About the Senior Front End Developer role

This might just be the best Engineering opportunity in Canada (if we do say so ourselves). Float is looking for exceptional Senior Front End Developers to build simple, elegant, and highly intuitive interfaces for our customers. Developers hired will play a critical role in building products used every day for Float's growing customer base.

In this role, you’ll be responsible for building and enabling beautiful and seamless experiences for our customers that take “month end” from tedious to delightful. You’ll have the opportunity to impact the growth of a diverse cross-section of Canadian businesses through your work.

You will work with small cross-functional teams (squads of 5-8 people in product, engineering, design and ops) and will have extreme ownership over your product vertical. Squads will have everything they need to move quickly, be innovative, decisive and quickly ship high-quality products and features.

What your day-to-day looks like:

• Create features using modern JavaScript frameworks like React
• Keep up-to-date with best practices and tooling from the JavaScript, React and CSS communities
• Openly collaborate with your team to solve problems and learn from failures
• Mentor others and help lead estimation efforts on your team
• Own the front end aspects of project and work stream delivery

You’ll be great in this role if:

• You have exceptional ability. This comes first, we’re looking for developers with exceptional ability. Regardless if you have any of the other points listed below.
• You’ve got the experience. To be successful in this role, we’re looking for 5+ years of Front End development experience in a B2B SaaS environment.
• You’re mission-driven. You are motivated by the company vision, mission and culture, and approach each problem with curiosity, empathy, and a sense of urgency.
• You’ve got experience with our techstack. Typescript/React (exposure to Python/Django, AWS is helpful). 
• You’re motivated by being a leader. You have a track record of shipping high-quality products and features at scale. You take ownership over your work and master your craft as an IC.
• You’re eager to continue your own learning. Scrappy and voracious, you want to know the ‘why’ behind every answer.
• You believe the customer comes first. You’ll advocate endlessly for our customers, and have a natural curiosity to understand their needs.

This role won’t be a fit if:

• You don’t like change and adapting to new ways of doing things.
• You want a very organized and predictable day to day.
• You aren’t comfortable with ambiguity.
• You want detailed to-dos for your tasks and projects.

Don’t meet every single requirement?  If you’re excited about this role, and you strongly align with our values but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be the right candidate for this, or other future positions.