Frontend Engineer

The frontend engineer position is vital to the success of our company.

You’ll be the first frontend engineer hire – which means a lot of responsibility on your part. You’ll take the lead in implementing user interfaces to address our business needs along with the rest of the engineering team. Both our clients and staff will use the software you write. Our small and close-knit engineering team consists of a UX specialist and full stack engineers. You’ll work closely with the team to implement solutions for all departments within Empire Flippers, be it compliance, customer support, sales and migrations. You’ll work closely with the UX specialist to ensure designs are implemented correctly to the nearest pixel, and you’ll work closely with the backend engineers and our API’s to ensure scalability, code cleanliness and readability.

The feature set will have already been decided on – it’s your responsibility to take the lead of the implementation and to ensure the user experience is elevated to unprecedented levels.

We believe in hiring people that are a good fit for us culturally.

A good fit is actually more important to us than the skill sets since we will teach you everything you need to know.

You should have a few good years of experience under your belt, having implemented some mouth-watering web apps. Your portfolio speaks louder than your words.

Experience with React and/or Angular. We’re looking for at least 3+ years frontend development experience, most of which you’ve used React or Angular.

You need to have immaculate attention to detail. We need to hear you grunting and moaning if something doesn’t quite look or feel right, to the nearest pixel and to the nearest hexadecimal color, to the point you become annoying to us. At times other developers may edit your code, you’ll be watching to ensure the code base remains readable and scalable.

Be a good communicator. It sounds very cliché, but you’ll immerse yourself in almost every department, you’ll be learning problems and presenting solutions, and also overseeing the implementation of those solutions too.

A self-starter. We need to see some evidence that you’re able to get up every morning, bite the bullet just get on with it, even if you’ve tried four coffee shops and none have decent wifi. You won’t have eyes looking over your shoulder on a day to day basis, you’ll be working in almost full autonomy, we’ll need to trust you to deliver the goods.

The following skills/experience would be a bonus, but not required:

Ruby on Rails. Our backend will be built in RoR, being able to navigate the backend code and patch things up would be a huge bonus.

Databases. A comprehensive experience working with various types of SQL and noSQL databases would be very useful. MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, Cassandra, to name a few.

Caching. The software we’re building needs to be fast and to remain fast as we scale, both in terms of traffic and database size. Having experience with Memcached, Redis, Varnish or experience with complicated CDN setups with many rules would be a plus.

Our company is built on the foundation of travel, remote work, and living life on your own terms.

We’re not looking to put you in a cubicle and waste your time in traffic. You’ll be working hard, playing hard, and learning all about our company and what we stand for during this time. When you join us, you’ll be flying out to Vietnam in September for our next team meetup. The past few times they have been in Thailand, Colombia, and the Philippines. These are two-week events where we work, play and relax.

Apart from meeting us in person every now and then, you’re free to work and live anywhere you’d like and join the new class of digital nomads – we’re homeless but have a passport, debit card and a laptop.

You’ll become friends with people who will give you massive insights into how digital businesses work, how they scale, and, of course, how to invest in them or sell them.

This isn’t a gap year experience. This is not a temporary contract.

If you’re applying just because you want something to fund your travels before you start seeking out a “serious” job, then you probably shouldn’t apply.

We’re looking for career-minded people who share our vision and see where we’re going. We want you to be part of that vision and help us get there over the long haul.

And while we play hard and sometimes really do work next to the pool all day, we work even harder. Sometimes you will be putting in a 10-12 hour day as business demands arise. You’ll be working weird hours to match other team members time zones, and you’ll sometimes have to face some critical feedback. And if there’s a bug in your code that’s blocking a multi-million dollar deal, expect a phone call at 3am.

You will be expected to perform to our expectations and really help us grow our business to the next level. We’re counting on you.

If you can see yourself growing into a profitable and meaningful career with us and love what we do, we want you to be part of our team.

We’re going to start you off slow. You’ll first learn about our company and what each department does; then you will be given some low-level tasks to ease you into the position. Over time, your skills will grow and you’ll be making a lot of decisions on your own.

However, you will always have our support and knowledge to lean on. We aren’t going to throw you to the wolves — you’ll be part of a high-functioning team that is here to help wherever we can.

Joe Magnotti and James Andrews will be reviewing every application. If we think you’re a good fit, we will reach out to you to do an video call interview. After the first interviews are done, our final candidates will be brought back for a final second interview before we make our decision.