Senior Frontend Software Engineer, Affinity

• You have ~7+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a focus on frontend development, and at least 2+ years in a senior role leading team projects
• You are an expert in React and TypeScript
• You have experience with performance optimization techniques and tools to ensure fast load times and smooth interactions
• You have expertise with frontend build tools and package managers (Eg. webpack, pnpm)
• You demonstrate strong ownership instincts, guiding the design, planning, and execution of large, complex projects
• You have strong leadership abilities and experience mentoring other engineers and providing technical guidance

Desirable

• As a Senior Software Engineer II, Frontend you’ll have the opportunity to drive our product forward, refining and evolving the features our customers love while pushing new directions
• You’ll shape key frontend components, including design systems, state management patterns, and overall architecture
• Affinity’s user experiences are data-dense and highly interactive, offering a challenging and rewarding role with significant impact
• Work with a cross-functional group leading the frontend engineering projects from design to delivery, ensuring successful execution and outcomes
• Scope and stage work into well-defined milestones, avoiding monolithic deliverables and ensuring timely progress
• Identify and proactively address technical debt, maintaining the long-term health and performance of systems
• Mentor other engineers, providing technical guidance, conducting code reviews, and improving team practices
• Drive operational excellence, influencing decisions that enhance the scalability and maintainability of our frontend systems
• Our platform is built with React and TypeScript on the front end, with Ruby and PostgreSQL on the back end. We’re leaning into event-driven architecture using Kafka. Our infrastructure is hosted by AWS and runs on Kubernetes