Senior Software Engineer - Front End (Full Time)
Favor
Favor’s mission is ‘Anything Delivered’. Our engineers make high-touch logistics happen. The Favor technology platform is the engine behind the business enabling millions of Favors. Our technology efficiently manages the real-time assignment of Runners to Favors, facilitates communication between customers, Runners, and support, keeps thousands of customer and Runner mobile applications in sync, and more.
Do you get a thrill when you impact hundreds of thousands of users? Do you want to work for a purpose and value-driven company in a high-growth environment? Our engineers create the tools and applications necessary to connect our customers, Runners, merchants, and support teams. As a Senior Software Engineer at Favor you will be responsible for all phases of development, testing, and deployment of our web applications. You will work closely with our product and operations teams to understand customer needs, build simple solutions to complex problems, and deliver delightful experiences to all our users.
At Favor, we are committed to building a world-class team that shares a passion for modern, clean code and products that make a difference. We need engineers like you to help us achieve our mission of ‘Anything Delivered’.
What you'll do:
- Assist in research and fact-finding to develop or modify applications.
- Work closely with team members across Product, Design, and Engineering.
- Participate in the planning and execution of development projects.
- Partner with cross-functional technology teams to integrate solutions.
- Triage and fix bugs, and perform maintenance updates to the code base.
Skills you have:
- A related degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience.
- 4+ years of experience in software engineering.
- Experience in a high-growth startup is a plus.
- Can design and build technical solutions without direct oversight.
- Knowledge of coding patterns and their applicable uses to write performant, testable code. uses data structures and algorithms to solve problems.
- Ability to write tests that cover the most common use cases and code paths.
- Ability to use design patterns to design efficient, maintainable, and scalable features.
- Ability to read through code and identify areas that may lead to bugs.
- Ability to identify and communicate potential issues early and significantly contribute to team discussions.
- Ability to work closely with Back End engineers on defining API contracts.
- Experience or familiarity with one or more of the following technologies: JavaScript, Node.js, React, Express, PHP, Selenium, MySQL, Docker, GitHub Actions
Who you are:
- Appreciate simple design.
- Love to write clean, well-tested code - test first or TDD approaches a plus.
- Enjoy working with other engineers in a collaborative and iterative environment.
- Communicate well with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Likes mentoring junior engineers and helps organize squad members around project goals.
