Senior Front End Engineer, Internal Tools

Senior Software Engineer (Front End)

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Front End) to join our growing engineering team to define, build and iterate on features for our new user facing product. You will work closely with Developers, Product, Operations, Customer Support, Growth and other functions to design and build a reliable, intuitive, and simple experience for our external users through a web interface. As an early member of the team, you will also have a lot of impact on our team culture, processes and norms.

Taptap Send is a cross-platform mobile app developed with React Native and TypeScript, which talks to a backend service written in Kotlin and backed by a PostgreSQL database, all of which runs on AWS and is managed via Terraform. Our internal tools leverage these technologies in addition to Web React and Python.

We're an encouraging environment that values both teamwork and autonomy, and have many exciting upcoming challenges, including: scaling up to handle increased volume and complexity, improving UI and UX to drive growth and retention, building internal tools, developing new small business solutions, and much more!

Your Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of development of our external facing new web product.
• Build experiences across the stack using primarily TypeScript, React.
• Write well-tested, high quality code, with an eye towards generics and re-use
• Work closely with design and product teams to regularly ship working features
• Participate in release planning and deployment of released build
• Mentor and advise team members
• Evaluate and deliver timeline estimates for projects

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional experience building web applications using TypeScript, React
• Experience working with design systems libraries like Material UI.
• Experience implementing designs from Figma.
• Experience owning user-facing features end-to-end, from conception to launch
• Experience developing software in a collaborative, multi-functional, and fast-paced environment
• Experience working on systems that have real-world performance and reliability constraints
• Strong communication and ability to manage conflicting priorities, setting expectations with stakeholders and be a driving force

Ideally:

• Experience with End-to-End test automation.
• Experience CI, CD processes and tools.
• High personal code/development standards (code review, unit testing, documentation, etc.)
• Desire to contribute to backend development

Taptap Send is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. All employment decisions are decided on the basis of qualifications, experience and business need. We strongly encourage applications who are members of underrepresented communities to apply.

If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let us know. Any information you provide us in this respect will only be used to accommodate your requirements.

Note: we recognize imposter syndrome is real - any candidate that does not perfectly fit every characteristic of this role is still strongly encouraged to apply.