Who We Are
Float is the world’s main software program for groups to plan their time. Launched in 2012, we’ve grown yearly since, and stay proudly impartial, self-funded and worthwhile.
As a licensed B Company, we’re dedicated to creating a optimistic contribution to our crew, prospects, the atmosphere, and the distant neighborhood. We’re a crew of 55 working 100% remotely who imagine in dwelling our Greatest Work Life.
You’ll accomplice with crew members globally, together with Australia, Mexico, Italy, Nigeria, Canada, and the USA. Evaluate our information safety pointers about the place we rent right here.
We’re on a scale up journey, and we’re looking for individuals who thrive on this stage, given the autonomy, and the chance, to do the perfect work of their profession.
Why We’re Hiring For This Function
At Float, we’re devoted to delivering a quick, seamless expertise for our prospects. As our common buyer dimension continues to develop, so does the complexity of their wants. This function is crucial to making sure that Float stays a best-in-class useful resource administration instrument, offering a clean and intuitive expertise for each consumer.
The Senior Entrance Finish Efficiency Engineer function is important in serving to us sort out one among our largest challenges: optimizing the efficiency of our internet utility for bigger groups, significantly these inside our target market of 11-1000 members.
Our prospects depend on the Float schedule as their “dwelling view,” and its efficiency straight impacts how shortly and simply they’ll plan, regulate, and succeed. Considered one of your essential tasks shall be optimizing the efficiency of this characteristic.
Past optimizing our present product, this function can be about shaping the longer term. You’ll guarantee new options are scalable, efficiency regressions are averted, and our product evolves to satisfy the calls for of a rising buyer base. Your specialised experience in front-end efficiency will straight help Float’s development targets, each in increasing our buyer numbers and growing the crew sizes we serve.
Additionally, you will assist foster a “tradition of efficiency” within the bigger Interfaces crew by advocating for finest practices and tooling, reviewing new code, implementing efficiency monitoring, and by sharing information with different crew members.
It is a distinctive alternative to not solely make an influence inside our crew however to affect the expertise of 1000’s {of professional} companies organizations who depend on Float every single day.
This function studies to Haakon, our Group Lead (Interfaces). You possibly can meet them beneath, the place they clarify the essential function you’ll play inside our Interfaces crew. Watch this video.
You’ll be working asynchronously with a vibrant, devoted crew from throughout the globe, with a robust give attention to taking advanced issues and creating options that really feel easy and intuitive for our prospects.
What You’ll Be Accountable For
Early on, you’ll soar proper into:
- Upgrading to React 19: Upgrading us from React 18 to 19, in addition to optimizing for the brand new React Compiler
- Schedule Optimization: Engaged on the efficiency of the Schedule, in addition to engaged on present efficiency points which have been flagged
- Efficiency Check Suite: Changing into conversant in and work on stabilizing our inner efficiency check suite
As soon as you’re a bit extra settled, we anticipate that you’ll soar into the next tasks:
- Entrance-end efficiency: You’ll be contributing to a best-in-class front-end efficiency of our product
- Tooling and Processes: Defining performance-oriented tooling and implementing best-practices for the bigger Interfaces Group, in addition to sharing your information.
- Roadmap: Personal and outline the roadmap for performances initiatives and enhancements
- Possession: Of the efficiency and front-end for internet app capabilities just like the Schedule, Reside Updates, and Search
What You’ll Want To Be Profitable
We would like you to like your work and imagine that these expertise will will let you succeed within the function. Making use of these expertise requires:
Technical expertise
- Experience in Javascript/Typescript and React
- Expertise optimizing React functions
- Possession or sturdy contribution to front-end efficiency on merchandise with massive consumer bases and excessive information volumes
Important expertise
- Buyer-oriented mindset
- Investigative mindset
- Excessive ranges of autonomy
As a completely distant crew, we’re searching for somebody snug with asynchronous communication because the default, which suggests you might have earlier distant expertise and are snug utilizing instruments like Slack, Loom, and Linear to speak as wanted. Don’t fear—you should have vital deep work time since we’ve only a few conferences.
Why Be part of Us
Pay for this function is US $167,471 (Stage 3). Right here’s a weblog put up with extra info on how we decide our salaries.
We’re a worldwide async distant firm with a various crew of individuals from all around the world who share a standard perception in dwelling our finest work life. We imagine deeply within the concept of transparency and share our Float Handbook publicly so potential new crew members can see first hand our perks & advantages in addition to our methods of working. For those who really feel like you possibly can thrive at Float to do your finest work, we might love to listen to from you.
Hiring Course of For This Function
You’ll discover a variety of helpful details about our interview course of and what it’s like to affix our international crew on the Float careers web page. The hiring course of for this function seems like this:
Preliminary First Meet (20 min): You will meet with Julia, Expertise Supervisor, to debate your curiosity within the function and evaluation your questions on working at Float.
Technical Project (4 hours): You’ll full a take-home technical project that can assess your means to establish and talk efficiency points on an actual utility and counsel options. You’ll be paid an honorarium after completion of your take-home project, and can obtain suggestions in your project whatever the consequence.
Technical Interview (45 min): You’ll meet with Gevorg & Fabio, to debate your technical functionality, front-end engineering expertise, in addition to your strategy to the take-home project.
Supervisor Interview (45 min): You’ll meet with Haakon, Group Lead (Interfaces), to dive deeper into your expertise, expertise, and targets for the function.
Founder Interview (30 min): You’ll meet with Lars, Float’s CEO, to get to know you and see when you’ve got potential to be a terrific addition to the crew.
Notice: Trade analysis reveals that girls and people in historically underrepresented teams typically don’t apply to jobs until they examine all of the containers for the function. For those who really feel strongly that you’ve got what it takes for this function however don’t examine 100% of the containers—that’s okay—we encourage you to use anyway and spotlight what you possibly can carry to the desk.