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 an authorized B Company, we’re dedicated to creating a optimistic contribution to our crew, clients, the surroundings, and the distant group. We’re a crew of fifty working 100% remotely who consider in dwelling our Finest Work Life. You’ll accomplice with crew members globally, together with Australia, Mexico, Italy, Nigeria, Canada, and the USA. Hear what our crew has to say by shopping our weblog, or studying our Glassdoor evaluations. Take a look at what our clients consider Float from our G2 evaluations.
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 very best work of their profession.
Why We’re Hiring For This Function
Our front-end crew is liable for our customer-facing software, the first method clients get worth from Float. We assist an online software, an iOS app, an Android app, and a desktop app (Electron). All these platforms share a substantial quantity of code and are frequently rising.
As our product continues to develop, our buyer base grows with it. We’re looking for a talented engineer to assist transfer issues ahead by constructing new user-facing options, contributing to our shared part library, and modernizing legacy code. The Senior Interfaces Engineer can even be liable for the protection and upkeep required to make sure that we will ship the high-quality expertise that our clients anticipate from us.
You’ll be a part of a wise, succesful group of engineers particularly targeted on the net software, guaranteeing that the first automobile to ship worth stays precisely that. We have now some formidable objectives as an organization and with a view to fulfill them, we’ve got some equally formidable objectives for our net software. We’re eager to have the ability to assist our clients as they change into extra profitable and develop, and this ever-increasing development is beginning to problem a few of our older programs. We’re desirous to reimagine our front-end to assist clients whose sizes exceed our present largest clients.
Our Lead Interfaces Engineer, Haakon Jack, explains the essential position 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 deal with taking complicated issues and creating options that really feel easy and intuitive for our clients.
What You’ll Be Accountable For
Early on, you’ll leap proper into:
- Main Product-Centered Tasks: Drive tasks corresponding to enhancing charts/visualizations or enhancing onboarding experiences.
- Stakeholder Communication: Talk about specs with Product and Design groups to know issues and constraints, particularly performance-related ones.
As soon as you’re a bit extra settled, we anticipate that you’ll leap into:
- Specializing in Utility Areas: Give attention to particular elements of the front-end structure, deal with regressions, bugs, and buyer queries associated to these areas.
- Contributing to the Entrance-Finish Structure: Take part in discussions on scaling and evolving the front-end structure, together with strategic adjustments or course of enhancements.
- Contributing to the Design System: We use an inside design-system/part library at Float to maintain our UI’s constant and prime quality – you’ll be anticipated to work with the Design Platform crew so as to add and replace parts as wanted for characteristic work.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: You’ll collaborate with varied groups throughout engineering and Float; for instance, partaking with the Person Expertise crew to know and enhance how clients work together with the product, guaranteeing it meets their wants.
What You’ll Want To Be Profitable
We would like you to like your work and consider that these expertise will mean you can succeed within the position. Making use of these expertise requires:
- React Experience: Excessive stage of proficiency in React, with a robust understanding of hooks
- State Administration: Expertise constructing giant functions with Redux, good understanding of native vs. international state
- Styling Method: Familiarity with Vanilla CSS in addition to CSS-in-JS, with out reliance on utility lessons like Tailwind
- Typescript: Expertise with TypeScript, as we’re at present transitioning our front-end codebase to Typescript
- Testing Instruments: Data of Vitest or Jest for testing
- Monorepo Expertise: Snug working in a monorepo surroundings
- Bonus for those who come to us with:
- Expertise with Finish-to-Finish check automation system
- Expertise constructing Design Programs as a method to bridge the hole between design and growth
- Constructing Android and iOS apps with React Native
- Working with distributed programs and event-based architectures at scale
As a completely distant crew, we’re searching for somebody snug with asynchronous communication because the default, which implies you’ve gotten earlier distant expertise and are snug utilizing instruments like Slack, Loom, and Linear to speak as wanted. Don’t fear—you’ll have important deep work time since we’ve got only a few conferences.
Why Be a part of Us
Pay for this position is US $167,471 (Degree 3). Right here’s a weblog put up with extra data on how we decide our salaries.
We’re a worldwide async distant firm with a various crew of individuals from everywhere in the world who share a typical perception in dwelling our finest work life. We consider 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. If you happen to 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 whole lot 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 position appears like this:
- Preliminary First Meet (20 min): You will meet with Julia Fulton, Expertise Supervisor, to debate your curiosity within the position and overview your questions on working at Float.
- Take Dwelling Project: Candidates who transfer ahead shall be invited to finish a technical task for the engineering crew to overview. This can be a 4-hour paid task. Candidates will obtain high-level suggestions from the hiring crew and people who transfer ahead will proceed to the technical interview stage to debate outcomes additional in additional element.
- Technical Interview (30 min): You’ll meet with Fabio Azevedo, Entrance-Finish Designer, and Guido D’Orsi, Entrance-Finish Efficiency Engineer, to be taught extra about your expertise and expertise in addition to deep dive into your take-home task.
- Supervisor Interview (45 min): You’ll meet with Haakon Jack, Interfaces Crew Lead, and Colin Ross, Director of Engineering, to debate your technical expertise and objectives for the position.
- Founder Interview (30 min): You’ll meet with Lars, Float’s CTO, to get to know you and see if in case you have potential to be an ideal addition to the crew.
Notice: Trade analysis reveals that ladies and people in historically underrepresented teams typically don’t apply to jobs until they test all of the bins for the position. If you happen to really feel strongly that you’ve what it takes for this position however don’t test 100% of the bins—that’s okay—we encourage you to use anyway and spotlight what you possibly can deliver to the desk.