Senior Frontend Engineer, Sonder
Serviced apartment provider
Open for applications
Serviced apartment provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide innovative and thoughtfully designed hospitality to all.
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 revolutionizing the hospitality industry through tech-powered services and thoughtfully designed accommodations to provide customers with a seamlessly managed experience. The company manages over 18,000 live & contracted units, from spacious rooms to fully equipped suites and apartments, across 35+ cities in ten countries.
Whereas hotels simply rent rooms, and Airbnb connects hosts and guests, Sonder 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.
While its main competition has come from hotels, Sonder has expanded into the hotel business as well, adding a substantial number of units to its management portfolio. The company’s continued global expansion and innovative technological guest experiences have the company well set to see continued success.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jun 2020
$170m
SERIES E
Jul 2019
$225m
SERIES D
Total funding: $530.4m
Company benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Generous stock plan
- Medical, dental and vision insurance (where applicable)
- Flexible vacation
- Annual free credits and discounts to stay in Sonders
- A company with a huge vision, a dynamic work environment, and a team of smart, ambitious and fun to work-with colleagues!
- Workplace flexibility for remote positions #ABetterWaytoWork
Company values
- Extend Hospitality to All
- Strive for Better
- Be Creative
- Think Rigorously
- Prioritize Relentlessly
- Get it Done
- Embrace Adversity
- Obligation to Speak Up
- Communicate Directly with Compassion
- Be Grateful & Optimistic
Company HQ
Design District, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Francis Davidson
(CEO)After having studied Philosophy and Economics at McGill University, they co-founded Sonder. In 2017 they were included in the Forbes 30 under 30 for Consumer Technology.
Martin Picard
(Global Head of Real Estate)After graduating with a Graduate Diploma in Chartered Accountancy, they were the Senior Financial Auditor at Deloitte and Finance Manager at Ned Davis Research. Before co-founding Sonder, they co-founded Adzura, an online marketplace for advertisers and publishers.
Share this job
View 2 more jobs at Sonder