Senior Frontend Engineer, Yotta
Savings account app
Job no longer available
Savings account app
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To change people's opinions about personal finance.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has a strong technical foundation and feels comfortable working independentl
- In addition, they possess strong creative problem-solving skills, a scrappy attitude, bias towards action, and are a team player willing to jump in wherever needed
- As an early hire, you recognize the opportunity to shape key technical and product decisions for the bank of the future, and there will be no shortage of challenging problems to solve as we scale
- Experience owning a significant portion of frontend/mobile codebase
- Experience with one or more modern JS frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, Svelte)
- Excellent understanding of HTML, CSS and VanillaJS
- You have an eye for design, robust experience developing beautiful UI’s both on the fly and from specs
- Experience building user-facing web applications at high scale
- Self-motivated to build and iterate in quick cycles
- You work well cross-functionally and cross-team and earn trust from co-workers at all levels
- You have experience with mentorship and understand the art of giving and receiving feedback
Desirable
- Experience with React Native
- Experience with design systems
What the job involves
- We are looking for a world-class Senior Frontend Engineer to join the Engineering team at Yotta!
- As an engineer on this team, you will design and develop new features, and scale existing products. As a core contributor you will share the team responsibility of operational excellence (best practices, testing, automation, monitoring)
- Work on a diverse range of products including our highly-rated mobile app
- Use best practices to build out reusable, cross-platform React components
- Brainstorm and participate in the design process
- Communicate and collaboratively solve problems with teammates
- Optimize for performance and user experience
- You can expect to work with a cross-disciplinary team including front end engineers, backend engineers, designers and product management
Our take
A large proportion of Americans are financially insecure, with almost half having almost no savings. At the same time, the USA spends over $80 billion on the lottery each year, or about $600 per household, with almost no chance of a payout. However, with banks offering record low interest rates to savers, savings also have no chance of a payout.
Noticing a gap in the market here, Yotta Savings was founded to make savings more fun. Rather than paying a small amount of interest on deposits into each accounts, it pools some of the interest generated and offers prizes instead through daily number draws. This makes savings both more profitable and more interesting. So far Yotta has paid out $16 million to its 600,000 savers.
While Yotta is popular, it faces challenges in its road to profitability, and it may struggle as interest rates climb around the world as central banks respond to inflation (and thus make traditional savings accounts more attractive). However, in addition to its legion of fans, it has received significant backing from the investment community and its recent focus on development and user experience will stand it in good stead to continue its rapid growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2022
$10m
EARLY VC
Feb 2021
$13.2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $26.7m
Company benefits
- Free lunch every workday, no matter where you are
- Full medical, dental and vision insurance
- Unlimited PTO (and we mean it)
- 401k program
- Annual company offsite event
- New experience stipend–try something new, on us!
Company HQ
Union Square, New York, NY
Leadership
Adam Moelis
(CEO)Was Data Product Analyst for YipitData and a Developer for Right Call Consulting.
Ben Doyle
(CTO)Previously co-founded Entrypoint. Before that was an Investment Associate with Bridgewater Associates and a Trader at IMC Financial Markets.
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