Fountain is the market leader in high volume hiring with solutions that enable customers to get ahead of their hiring goals. Fountain’s all-in-one software allows companies to find and hire the right candidates faster. Our automated and customizable platform provides a seamless applicant experience while ensuring organizations have pipelines full of hourly talent who are ready to work.
Hundreds of customers, including Stitch Fix, GoPuff, Fetch, and sweetgreen, use Fountain to hire over 3 million workers annually in more than 75 countries.
In 2022, we closed $185M in our Series C, led by Softbank and B Capital, which 4.5Xed our valuation. Join our growing team of collaborative, compassionate, and unconventional Fountaineers as we empower our customers to exceed their hiring goals and open opportunities for the hourly workforce.
Position Overview:
As a Software Engineer - Front End in the Fountain Worker Experience team, you will be part of a dedicated product team of 3 to 4 developers throughout the entire product cycle, which includes planning, architecture, development, and maintenance of the Fountain products. To do so, you will receive support from product managers, designers, and other software engineers.
To succeed in this position, it is important to have a proven track record of working with rich enterprise products and a solid technical background in frontend development..
The Worker Experience team is organized into product squads, each responsible for independently developing new products using a product-led growth approach. New products are released every quarter, with a focus on product-based software development. It is important that you are comfortable with this approach.
We are a rapidly growing team and product in the company that operates with agility and speed. You will be expected to make decisions even when faced with uncertainty, and you will have the freedom to do so. In fact, you will operate with the autonomy typically found in early-stage product development, rather than in a larger organization.
This role requires collaboration within a globally distributed organization, spanning different time zones, continents, and cultures (including Western and Northern Europe, USA, South Africa, India, and more).
What you’ll be doing:
- Develop, maintain and test intuitive interfaces using modern front-end technologies
- Work closely with the design team to transform wireframes and mockups into UI components
- Implement responsive designs that ensure a seamless experience across various devices and screen sizes
- Engage in code reviews and pair programming sessions to uphold code excellence, uniformity, and adherence to best practices
- Identify and resolve performance constraints, optimizing applications for peak speed, scalability, and user convenience
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends, continuously seeking opportunities to enhance the user experience
What you should bring:
- Minimum of 5 years of extensive software engineering experience, specializing in front-end development
- Demonstrated track record in a product-focused software development
- Proficiency in modern front-end technologies, including but not limited to:
- React, TailwindCSS, MUI, Vite, Vitest/Jest, Playwright, Storybook
- Strong problem-solving abilities with a keen eye for user interactions and system architecture
- Ability to bridge Figma prototypes and code seamlessly, showcasing a keen sense of UI/UX considerations
- Solid understanding of responsive design principles and mobile-first development
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, to foster effective collaboration with team members and stakeholders
- A passion for creating user-centric designs and a drive to stay up to date with the latest trends in UI/UX
- Capability to work autonomously and confidently, even amidst dynamic circumstances
- Demonstrated ability to identify misaligned UI components, irregular spacing, color inconsistencies, and UI component malfunctions
- Proficiency in Agile methodologies, with a history of collaboration within cross-functional teams
- Experience in B2B SaaS startup environments and remote international settings is strongly preferred
Location: You will work remotely from the US or Canada in the Eastern time zone
Salary Range: $156,000 - $225,000
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Even if you do not meet all the requirements above, we still encourage you to apply for this position. While we try to be thorough with our prerequisites, not everything about you as a candidate can be condensed into a list of bullet points. What do you have to lose?
Fountain offers an incredibly unique work environment. We employ a diverse team all over the world. Each Fountaineer is given the freedom to do their best work from wherever they choose. We also understand the importance of in-person connections and hold in-person meetings with your team and meet annually as an organization to build our relationships and focus on the future of moving Fountain Forward.
The benefits we offer in the United States include competitive health plans and a retirement plan. Some Fountain-wide perks offered to all employees across the globe include a flexible vacation policy, paid holidays, monthly lunch stipends, annual allowances for ongoing education related to your profession and career advancement, along with home office, cell phone, and wellness reimbursements. Fountain is a global employer, so some benefit offerings will vary from country to country.
Fountain is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, socioeconomic status, disability, and veteran status.
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