Senior Front-End Developer

Summary

Join Jobber as a Senior Front-End Developer and contribute to the success of small home service businesses. You will be part of the Web Strategy and Operations team, responsible for building and improving technical solutions for Jobber's public-facing marketing properties. This role requires a champion of best practices for well-tested, scalable, and well-organized code, and you will lead initiatives to research and propose emerging technologies. You will also mentor junior developers and contribute to team documentation. The ideal candidate possesses extensive front-end development experience, strong communication skills, and a proactive approach to problem-solving. Jobber offers a competitive salary, equity rewards, annual stipends, retirement savings matching, an extended health package, and a dedicated talent development program.

Requirements

• Demonstrated years of experience in front-end web development with an extensive background in HTML, CSS, Javascript, accessibility, and web performance in a SaaS company
• Strong communication skills , with the ability to collaborate with both non-technical and technical team members
• To be ambitious and humble. You don't accept the status quo simply because "it's what we've always done." You push for better, newer, and more innovative ways to do things—all while staying humble
• Natural curiosity . You're always looking to learn new skills and grow existing ones
• Experience collaborating with designers
• Comfort in the grey areas . You're adaptable and can deal with ambiguity and changing priorities, with an eye for prioritization
• Project management skills. You're able to break down large, complex tasks into smaller pieces, assess risks, define priorities, and collaborate with team members to meet deadlines

Responsibilities

• Develop tools, frameworks, and workflows that reduce manual processes, enhance data accessibility, and enable data-driven decision-making
• Lead initiatives to research and propose emerging technologies, strengthening our tech stack with a focus on simplicity, performance, scalability, and maintainability
• Own multiple stages of a technical project, from scoping to project management, coding, and launch with little oversight from their manager, while providing project updates to stakeholders, teammates, and leadership
• Coach, train, and mentor Level I and Level II Front-End Developers, and provide guidance in their work by holding them accountable to the team's principles and values
• Maintain and contribute to team documentation, and expand the editing capabilities of our content management systems
• Have a deep technical skillset with the ability to find solutions to complex technical problems by looking outside of just coding through it
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and processes, and contribute to the evolution of our codebase to improve team processes and the tech stack
• Participate in design and code reviews, actively contributing to knowledge sharing and mentoring within the team, while driving development solutions to have consistent practices and reusable code
• Take ownership of code quality, establishing best practices to maintain high trust in the website across the organization
• Ability to explain complex data concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and hold them accountable to keep projects on time

Benefits

• A total compensation package that includes an extended health benefits package with fully paid premiums for both body and mind, retirement savings plan matching, and stock options
• A dedicated Talent Development team and access to coaching, learning, and leadership programs to help you grow your career, reach your goals, and unlock your full potential
• Support for all your breaks: from vacation to rest and recharge, your birthday off to celebrate, health days to support your physical and mental health, and parental leave top-ups to support your growing family