Senior Frontend Engineer at Electric AI

Who We are

Electric is on a mission to simplify IT for small businesses everywhere. In the US alone, 99% of companies are small businesses, and we have a huge opportunity to impact how they run by providing a solution that makes managing IT easy (even if you’re not an IT expert)! We do that for almost 1,000 small businesses and over 55,000 users with IT Management Software that makes technical things like device management, application provisioning, cybersecurity policies, employee onboarding, and compliance reporting easy to manage and improve.

Our employees are our most valuable asset. We have a people-first culture that prioritizes inclusion, support, growth, and development. You're not just an employee here; you're an important part of our community and of our mission to simplify IT.

If you want to bring your skills to a highly collaborative team and are passionate about pairing the creative with the analytical, have a flair for testing and experimentation, embody grit, determination, and curiosity, and want to be part of bringing Electric to small businesses across the U.S., read on.

Overview 

Electric’s Engineering team is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to help us take our software applications to the next level. This role will be part of a collaborative product team that will take ownership of a product domain to deliver features, maintain those features, and improve developer experience in an effort to add value for our customers. The team leverages agile best practices to deliver on the aforementioned goals.

As a Senior Frontend Engineer on the team, your responsibilities will be to help deliver features in our applications, maintain a high quality of code, collaborate with fellow engineers, and participate in cross-team engineering discussions to help drive best practices on the frontend.

The ideal candidate will have expertise in modern frontend technologies (see examples below) and know how to employ those technologies using lean development principles such as building with quality in mind, eliminating waste, respecting others, and delivering fast and often. The ideal candidate is a team player who works well with others in a collaborative environment. As a Senior Engineer, the candidate should serve as a role model and mentor to more junior engineers, both on their team and within the engineering organization.

What you’ll do 

• Work closely with product managers to build products that best support internal and external users
• Build a technical infrastructure capable of supporting a rapidly expanding organization in terms of employees and users
• Enable other developers by seeking out and implementing improvements to our development experience and processes on the frontend
• Anticipate the user experience and contribute to the entire product development process, including spec development and automated QA
• Mentor and pair with other developers to instill a growth mindset
• Set and uphold software guidelines and methodologies as agreed on by the team
• Lead by example with a focus on craftsmanship and quality
• Employ lean principles during the development process such as:
• Eliminate waste
• Build quality in
• Create knowledge
• Defer commitment
• Deliver fast
• Respect people
• Optimize the whole

Who you are

• 5+ years of front-end software development experience and the ability to learn quickly
• Prior startup experience or have faced large scaling challenges
• Advanced knowledge of Typescript, React, Redux, or similar front-end frameworks
• Opinions on using effective design aesthetics and UX interactions to drive engagement
• Experience with agile processes, build tools, and unit testing frameworks for front-end applications
• Experience working with and contributing to a shared component library or design system
• Advanced knowledge of frontend build systems and tooling including
• CI/CD tools
• Webpack / Vite
• AWS (S3, Systems Manager)
• Experience with Unit and End to End testing using tools such as or similar to
• Jest
• React Testing Library
• Cypress
• Advanced knowledge of Async Javascript / Typescript for fetching data, error, and state change handling
• A focus on writing maintainable, performant code
• A healthy balance of creativity and skepticism and a proven track record of solving difficult problems

Excited about the opportunity, but worried you don’t meet all the requirements? We recognize that people are less likely to apply to jobs where they don’t meet every single qualification. Imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. We encourage you to apply anyway, and give us both the chance to find out if you’re the right candidate for this or other roles! 

Read about working at Electric here and meet our leadership team! 

We offer a range of benefits that include: 

• Flexible and generous PTO 
• Mental Wellness Days 
• Volunteer Days
• Medical, Vision, Dental, and Orthadontia Coverage
• 401k 
• ESOP (Employee Stock Option Program)
• Kindbody Membership for Family Planning
• Pre-taxed Commuter Benefits 
• Generous Parental Leave
• Paid medical, family, and military leave
• Short and Long Term Disability 
• Employee Assistance Programs 
• Life Insurance funded by Electric
• Training and career growth 
• Awesome team building events! 

Where?

We are headquartered in NYC, with an office in Denton, TX and remote locations across 24 states. Our largest markets outside of the Tri-State area and Dallas-Fort Worth area are San Diego, Denver, Raleigh. We embrace a hybrid culture and offer opportunities throughout the year for folks to get together in regional markets or at HQ.  With a widely distributed team, we are used to working remotely across different time zones. 

See below to see if you are eligible to work within the 24 states we hire in: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin. 

Standard Working Hours: 9:00AM - 6:00PM

We are an equal opportunity employer. 

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for our users. 

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment. Electric does not discriminate against candidates or employees because of their sex, race, gender identity, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, veteran status or any other protected status under the law.

Accommodations

Electric is committed to providing access, equal opportunities, and reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. To request a reasonable accommodation as part of the recruitment process, please contact: [email protected].