United Way is hiring a
Senior Engineer

Summary

Join FIGS as a Senior Software Engineer, Frontend to architect and drive our frontend roadmap forward. Our current frontend experience is a server-side rendered Next.js React site built with Typescript, Styled Components, GraphQL and Apollo Client. We use Shopify to manage our shopping cart and checkout process, and have a mandate to grow on top of and beyond it as we need to.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience or education
• 5+ years professionally working on frontend applications
• Familiarity with leveraging automated solutions like unit tests, end-to-end tests, tracing, and data observability to ensure application and code quality
• Extensive experience with JavaScript and Typescript
• A commanding knowledge of HTML, CSS, and building rich user experiences with them
• Prior experience with SPA frameworks like React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, or Angular
• Experience using a web framework like Next.js or Nuxt in a production environment
• Awareness of WCAG 2.1 guidelines and best practices
• Awareness of challenges around creating accessible websites and React components
• Demonstrated ability to contribute to scalable and maintainable front-end JavaScript applications

Responsibilities

• Lead various projects in an effort to build beautiful, consumer facing features for our e-commerce site
• Participate in software and system design conversations with peer engineers
• Partner with our Product, Design, and Backend Engineering teams to: Define and build out our core theming and reusable component libraries
• Define and help implement core data models that will power our presentation layer APIs
• Build customer-facing frontend applications and features to help our customers better use our site

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with building and maintaining traditional Shopify sites and experience working on Shopify Apps and Themes
• Experience for building and maintaining a enterprise design system
• Experience with GitHub and CI/CD processes and pipelines
• Knowledge of headless CMS platforms like Contentful or Strapi
• Familiarity with DevOps technologies like CircleCI, Docker, AWS CDK, Terraform and Kubernetes
• Understanding of configuring ESLint, Prettier, TypeScript, Yarn, Lerna, and other TypeScript infrastructure

Benefits

• Equity: All FIGS employees have the opportunity to own shares of FIGS stock through our new-hire equity program
• Annual bonus: This position is eligible to participate in the FIGS annual bonus program
• Comprehensive benefits and perks package focused on your well-being, including premium medical, dental and vision coverage, and full access to wellness services through Breethe and Classpass
• 100% FIGS-sponsored life insurance and disability insurance
• Amazing 401(k) program, with a company match up to the first 6% of your contribution
• Generous paid time off - We have 12 company holidays. For salaried team members, we offer flexible vacation. For our hourly team members, we offer up to 3 weeks of accrued vacation
• Meaningful time away for baby bonding, including parental leave, new parent care meals, and a transition back to work for primary caregivers
• FIGS sponsored Uber Eats voucher for in-office weeks
• Personalized discount code for 50% off all FIGS products, along with a separate code to share with family and friends to enjoy a 25% discount site-wide
• Access to FIGS Vet, Discounted Pet Daycare, Discounted Pet Insurance, and so much more…