Senior Front-end Developer at April

About The Role

We’re looking for a brilliant, curious, creative, and fun-loving Senior Front-end developer with that’s ready to take on a huge opportunity to build both April’s customer-facing platform and 1st of its kind analyst “coding” platform!

If you’re all that and looking to lead, invent, and grow professionally you should definitely consider applying to join us on our journey! 

As a Senior Frontend Developer, you will bring designs into life. You will plan a high-scale frontend system, design and implement complex web and mobile applications using cutting-edge technologies and frameworks. You will work closely with other team members, product designers and product managers to deliver a high-quality, scalable platform.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of April’s customer-facing experience.
• Lead the design and development of April’s analyst tooling experience.
• Be Part of our core engineering and leadership team.  
• Build a cloud-native application with a modern microservices architecture. 
• Mentor, and grow the team, our practices, and our technology stack. 
• Work closely with the product & UX to define the company roadmap and execute the development plans.
• Design system architectures, select/evaluate tools, and open source projects to use within our architecture.

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of experience with TypeScript/JavaScript and building client-side applications using modern frameworks such as React/Angular/Vue.js etc.
• Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
• Familiarity with best practices of UI/UX.
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Experience with building responsive and accessible enterprise-grade web/mobile applications.
• Experience working in an agile and dynamic environment.
• Outstanding drive and communication skills.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud infra. Have the ability to “make stuff work" on top of writing good code.
• Advantage : familiarity with Bazel build tool
• Advantage : familiarity with gRPC framework

About April

Backed by Treasury, QED, Nyca Partners, Team8, Euclidean Capital, and Atento Capital, april partners with financial service companies, fintechs, and payroll providers to embed mobile-friendly tax filing, estimation, and optimization products into their apps.

april is breaking through the red tape of the tax software industry with advanced AI technology, providing intelligent year-round tax solutions designed to be white-labeled and integrated seamlessly wherever Americans make financial decisions.

By partnering with april, companies can transform their customers' approach to taxes from a retroactive audit to a proactive year-round planning process.