Senior Front End Developer

Are you smart, driven, curious, resourceful, and not afraid to fail, then we want to meet you! Our team of bold, innovative, and creative teammates is what makes us a great company to work for. FreightWaves delivers news and commentary, data, analytics, risk management tools, and actionable market insights to the industry. If you are ready to join our team, it is time for you to apply! FreightWaves is on the hunt for curious and creative Senior Front-End Developers to join our fast-paced engineering team. The ideal candidate is versatile, team-oriented, thrives on change, and has a positive attitude. If you are ready to be challenged and want the unique opportunity to work with some of the most talented developers in the country, we want you to apply! This position is 100% remote. What you will be doing:

• Develop new user-facing features.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Collaborate with team members and management.
• Collaborate with a small core group of developers throughout the development process.
• Work on converting an existing proof of concept code base to modern tech stacks.
• Interface with backend team to coordinate API development and request / response structures.

• Strong understanding of HTML5, CSS3/SCSS, version control (Git); Deep knowledge of JavaScript / ES6 practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience.
• Exposure to Vue or similar framework.
• Familiarity with web trends and best practices for UX/UI design.
• Experience with responsive design and development.
• Thorough understanding of asynchronous mechanisms used in modern web development (Promises, Observables, etc).
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components.
• Extensive knowledge of CSS and JS methods for providing performant visual effects.
• Knowledge of optimization best practices including but not limited to caching strategies, state management strategies, XHR wrangling.
• Familiarity with following technologies: Typescript, GraphQL, NPM, D3.
• Comfortable learning new technology as required.
• Experience refactoring antiquated code bases and unwinding / debugging complex and sometimes convoluted code from existing projects.
• Reverse engineering software to replicate processes in new stacks.
• Understanding of back-end principles and best practices for interfacing with APIs.
• Self-motivation to deliver results and seek continuous improvement.
• At least 5 years of experience or portfolio of work to demonstrate expertise at a Senior level.
• Experience in test development with Jest or similar technologies
• Professional, precise communication skills; attention to detail.

• An excellent start-up work environment, flat hierarchies, and short decision paths.
• Competitive salary
• Work from home
• A generous benefits package including 100% employer-paid health, dental, vision and Life insurance, STD, LTD
• Stock options
• 401k with up to 3.5% match
• Training programs and career development opportunities.
• Student-loan reimbursement
• Annual life achievement bonus of $2000 for having a baby, buying a house, or getting married (max one per year)
• No set days off Vacation policy (our team take time off as needed with supervisor approval)
• Gym Membership (or virtual membership while COVID is still a part of our daily lives)
• Audible or Kindle Unlimited subscription
• FreightWaves strives for sustainability. We offset our carbon emissions.
• Discount on Ford Vehicles