Software Engineer III- Frontend

Overview:

Guidepoint’s Engineering team thrives on problem solving and creating happier users. As Guidepoint works to achieve its mission of making individuals, businesses, and the world smarter through personalized knowledge-sharing solutions, the engineering team is taking on challenges to improve our internal CRM system and externally facing Portals to optimize the seamless delivery of our services.

As a Frontend Engineer, you’ll work with a team of engineers through challenging development projects. Come join a highly collaborative team of skilled engineers with a passion for quality.

What You’ll do:

• Work in an agile environment completing User Stories authored by professional Product Managers. Along with high fidelity comps and annotations by a team of in-house Designers
• Collaborate on implementations with backend PHP & .NET team members (in addition to other Frontend Engineers) through projects in React, server side NodeJS, Socket.io, Angular & Smarty (maintenance) and jQuery (deprecation)
• Work with QA and Application Support teams to triage bugs
• Work with DevOps to automate build, deployment and distribution of SPAs and static assets
• Consume Restful APIs, JSON payloads and various payload contexts
• Build new Portals/Applications with React, while making incremental enhancements to monolithic legacy applications (server side rendered)
• Write Unit tests and documentation.

What You Have:

• 7+ years professional experience as an individual contributor Or 5+ years from a high growth start up that scaled to more than 10 engineering resources
• Prior experience working with organized development teams. 
• Experience on React & ES6 or pixel perfect HTML/CSS/JS w/UX, or both!
• Experience with JavaScript ES6+, Typescript, SCSS
• Understand branching, merging, pull requests and conflict resolution in Git (Bitbucket or GitHub)

What You Have (Desired skills):

• Experience on React Hooks or Context
• Full stack experience with PHP or Dot net Core
• Prior experience building browser extensions
• Vite or Next.js experience
• WebRTC (Twilio implementation)
• Experience on Unit testing (jest)
• Experience implementing Web Socket’s with message queues (Socket.io preferred)
• RabbitMQ and Redis implementation on NodeJS
• NodeJS implementations on Azure Functions or VMs using Forever/PM2
• Experience of working on a GraphQL
• Experienced in leveraging issue tracking systems and wikis for documentation (Jira/Confluence)
• Comfortable on CentOS Linux or MacOS, command line, SSH, SFTP, SCP…
• Problem solving skills and a proactive work style
• Strong interpersonal & communication skills

What We Have:

• Competitive compensation
• Employee medical coverage
• Central office location
• Entrepreneurial environment, autonomy, and fast decisions
• Casual work environment