Senior Frontend Software Engineer, Recharge
Subscriptions & recurring payments for eCommerce
Job no longer available
Subscriptions & recurring payments for eCommerce
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create a world where payments are frictionless, and help merchants grow faster.
Role
Who you are
- You get bonus points if you are familiar with Shopify app development, including Polaris, Remote DOM, and Checkout UI Extensions
- You love remote work, but not working alone. You love not commuting to work, but you also love collaborating to clarify, confirm, theorize, figure out, and decide on solutions to problems
- You love exploring ideas with rapid prototyping and prioritizing the ones that have an immediate business impact
- You love tackling challenges on different fronts like code, infrastructure, documentation, and evangelizing new testing tools and methodologies
- You love the fast-paced nature of the eCommerce world
- You are good at breaking up work into near, mid, and long-term phases so you can deliver value all along the way as you work toward a clear overall direction
- You love rapid iterative design, test and development while gaining context and understanding along the way. You can recognize when you know enough to take the next useful step to deliver value
- 5+ years of relevant development experience in fast-paced environments
- A knack for engineering simple solutions to solve complex problems iteratively
- Experience building, launching, and supporting new product features
- Willingness to lean in as needed when duty calls
- Self-driven; pragmatic; a passion for taking ownership of your work and delivering outcomes
- Ability to work remote-first in a high-growth company
- Ability to demonstrate high self-sufficiency to take on and complete projects in a timely manner
- Exceptional analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Willingness to develop, maintain, and debug product features throughout the stack
- Experience with large-scale frontend architecture, framework migration, component and design library systems is preferred
- Experience with React is preferred
- Experience with TypeScript is preferred
- Prior experience with Python and Flask (or similar backend web frameworks) is preferred
- Typically, 5+ years of relevant development experience in fast-paced environments
- 5+ years of experience programming in frontend JavaScript frameworks (React preferred)
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Prior e-commerce experience is preferred
What the job involves
- The Customer Portal team at Recharge is dedicated to developing and maintaining user interfaces that enable end-customers to interact seamlessly with our core product features across the merchant’s storefront in Shopify
- As part of this team, you’ll work on Affinity, our out-of-the-box customer portal used daily by thousands of customers to manage their subscriptions and upcoming orders
- In this role, you will ensure that Affinity is modern, efficient, reliable, and extendable. You will design and develop features, collaborating closely with the product and design team to bring our product vision to life
- We use React for our frontend stack, supported by a custom-built component library compatible with the Shopify themes ecosystem. As a vital member of the team, you will help establish and uphold best practices for component development and architectural patterns, and facilitate rapid development for other feature teams
- Live by and champions all of our core values (#ownership, #empathy, #day-one, and #humility)
- Build, maintain, and debug high-impact product features in Affinity
- Perform thorough code reviews and provide constructive feedback
- Embrace rapid iterative design, testing, and development to gain context and understanding along the way informing the next useful step in delivering value
- Be a core maintainer of Affinity, while ensuring design and component library contributions meet Recharge UI/UX standards and established business logic patterns
- Extend Affinity to support low-code and no-code extensions, enabling third-party developers to expand it in a safe and scalable manner
- Investigate, analyze, and evangelize programming methodologies
- Champion good habits (development techniques, security, and tech debt balance) amongst your peers while advocating for improved engineering standards, tooling, and processes
- Collaborate with product and engineering management to inform roadmap timeline and identify approaches to release product features incrementally
- Participate in all phases of the Product Development Lifecycle with product and engineering management to inform technical viability of product and engineering initiatives for key stakeholders
Our take
E-commerce platform Recharge has been in operation since 2014, helping brands set up and manage a subscription business, removing the operational inefficiencies that brands would face when attempting to manage this themselves. Its cloud-based subscription management platform aims to offer merchants flexibility by leading with an API focus.
Recharge’s basic premise has proven a smart one, with the e-commerce subscription market growing substantially since the company was founded. It, of course, rose particularly steeply over the pandemic, with the closure of brick-and-mortar stores, but in general still follows a market trend towards direct-to-consumer relationships, promising a growing market for Recharge going forward.
Success for the company has been clear, with its merchant roster boasting several thousand users, including Harry’s, Oatly, and BrewDog. The sector has attracted substantial funding, with Recharge completing a remarkable funding round in 2021. This came atop its already stable, cash-flow-positive business and supported its further progress as the subscription industry developed. The company is focused on maintaining its strong position, with new updates and improvements to its offering, including Retain, a suite of tools designed to support retention throughout the subscriber lifecycle.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2021
$227m
SERIES B
Jan 2020
$50m
SERIES A
Total funding: $277m
Company benefits
- Equity packages
- 401(k) offering
- 100% coverage for medical, dental, vision, and life insurance for you and your dependents
- $700/mo remote-life stipend
- Monthly stipend to cover health and wellness
- Coworking space
- Subscription products
- Unlimited paid time off
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave to eligible team members
- Team & company retreats: We value making in-person connections. Past locations include San Diego, Vail, Seattle & Orlando
Company HQ
Mid-City, Santa Monica, CA
Leadership
Oisin O'Connor
(CEO)UCLA Economics graduate who worked as an Analyst at Deloitte before co-founding three companies, all centred on commerce and payments.
Michael Flynn
(CTO)Studied Mechanical Engineering at UCLA, before co-founding a number of companies, including Opportunity Green.
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