Senior Frontend Engineer, Sonder
Serviced apartment provider
Job no longer available
Serviced apartment provider
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To redefine hospitality by bringing exceptional stays everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum 5 years of experience designing and building enterprise-grade consumer-facing software
- Demonstrated Front-End coding chops and experience participating in building and architecting high-availability applications at scale using Javascript
- A strong understanding of the Javascript ecosystem including at relatively low levels and and professional experience with React
- Experience as a Full-Stack language-agnostic engineer is a plus
- Even bigger plus if your experience is with parts of our current stack - NextJS, Typescript, GraphQL, Ruby and Rails, ReactNative, Python, and GoLang (in that order)
- Successful track record of collaboration across technical and non-technical teams
- Team player with strong communication skills that works hard to make the people around them more successful
- Comfortable collaborating and digging in with stakeholders to understand requirements
- Willingness to consistently make culture choices that positively impact all of Engineering
- Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- Be part of a culture of ownership, innovation, empathy, and collaboration
- Help make Sonder.com and our Mobile Application the best and easiest way to book accommodations wherever Sonder has a presence
- Deliver event-driven, service-based connections between internal systems and our site including for real-time pricing and availability
- Proactively monitor application data and logs to prevent discrepancies and identify areas of improvement that reduce the need for human intervention
- Collaborate closely with other teams including Product, Design, and Business Stakeholders
- Grow and develop our org by recruiting, interviewing, and mentoring new engineers
- Continually invest in observability, reliability, productivity, and stability
- Write and maintain clear and appropriate documentation and tests for the systems you build so that others can easily contribute, collaborate, and support
Our take
Sonder is out to revolutionize the hospitality industry through tech-powered services and thoughtfully designed accommodations. The company manages thousands of live and contracted units, including spacious rooms, fully equipped suites and apartments, and hotels.
The company partners with real estate owners and landlords to manage and operate entire multi-unit buildings. This allows the company to create consistently good experiences. Its apartments feature luxury hotel perks like modern design, professional cleaning, fresh towels, boutique toiletries, and an innovative app-based concierge.
The company’s continued global expansion and innovative technological guest experiences show that it has had its share of success. Unfortunately, an announcement in late 2025 appears to indicate the business will stop operating due to severe financial constraints - news that we will follow closely as it develops.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jun 2020
$170m
SERIES E
Jul 2019
$225m
SERIES D
Total funding: $530.4m
Company benefits
- Stock option plan: Our success is your success. Exempt employees are part of our generous equity plan
- Vacation: Exempt team members have paid time off. Non-exempt team members accrue paid time off
- Health and wellbeing: All employees have access to our medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance plans
- Travel perks: All employees receive annual credits towards Sonder bookings, as well as stay discounts for friends and family
- Snacks & drinks: Our offices are stocked with a great selection of snacks, coffee, tea, and more
Company HQ
Design District, San Francisco, CA
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