Senior Frontend Engineer - Riverside Insights
Chicago, IL
About the Job
The Senior Frontend Engineer’s mission is to develop high-quality, efficient, and scalable software solutions that deliver value to our school district clients. You will lead by example, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning while ensuring our products are not only technically robust but also aligned with our business goals. Your commitment to continual growth and finding creative solutions to complex technical challenges while collaborating with the product team will be instrumental in driving our organization’s success.
Tools we use:
- JavaScript, Node.JS, React, Typescript, Firebase, PostgreSQL, and recently started using Storybook
- Google Cloud Platform hosts our Apps
- We collaborate with GitHub, Slack, Zoom, Jira, Confluence, and Miro
- Every engineer is given ample opportunity to learn the Aperture product and codebase, with continual opportunities to demonstrate their abilities
About the role:
- We are looking to hire a passionate Senior Frontend engineer to join our empowered Product and Engineering team. The team today consists of 3 engineers, a QA engineer, a contracted designer, and a Product Owner.
- On a typical day, you may collaborate with product, architect a solution, break down an epic, implement a feature, or evolve a coding practice with your fellow colleagues.
- You will develop and release software solutions in an agile environment, helping us focus on building teacher focused enhancements and developing a mental health screener which is a new product for us.
- You will determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
- Support our team’s continual growth by creating documentation which could be flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
- You will bring your own experience and ideas to help us continually iterate and help the team stay a high performing team within our process, our code, our standards, and help us reach a full CICD process.
- Help make a positive impact on many children, youth and adults nationwide as you continue to support and enhance Aperture’s research-developed and strength-focused product.
Requirements
About you:
- You are a skilled engineer who has taken the lead of individual stories and epics. You take pride in the code you create and strive to produce high quality, accessible, and performant user experiences.
- You have a minimum of four years of experience developing software products or a matching level of skill and strengths.
- You are very comfortable writing modern architecture within the frontend codebase, that integrates well to the backend. You consider the task at hand while also recognizing the impact it might have on the larger system as a whole.
- You have a deep understand of UI and UX, driving the team to build features that will be smooth and successful for our end users.
- You have experience with unit and integration testing. You believe in testing your work and seek to automate your testing whenever possible.
- You are empathetic and desire to work on a well-functioning and communicative team. You set a high bar for yourself and engage with and support your team to be the best that they can be.
- You understand the importance of collaborating with and helping your fellow engineers, product partners and others to deliver customer value.
- You can comfortably work remote. You have the ability to attend regular team ceremonies, department and team meetings, while also being available for team collaboration. We respect Work/Life balance and don’t believe that working remotely means you work more. On occasion we will ask you to travel to meet the team in person.
Disclaimer
The above statements describe the general nature and level of the work performed by people assigned to this work. This list does not cover all possible duties, tasks, or responsibilities. Riverside Insights may amend or change responsibilities to meet the needs of the business and organization as necessary.
Physical Requirements:
- Remote
- Up to 5% travel for off-site team meetings
- May require stationary positions (sitting or standing) for extended periods.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
- Company paid basic life and AD&D insurance
- Company paid short-term and long-term disability
- Supplemental life insurance options
- Company paid Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Retirement plan with discretionary company matching
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options
- Premium subscription to Calm for employee and dependents
- Company paid time off (PTO)
- 13 named holidays, 2 floating holidays, and 4 early-release half days
- Flexible work arrangements
- Work-from-home expense reimbursement
- Tuition Reimbursement Program
- Company orientation and 30/60/90 Day Onboarding
Who is Riverside Insights? Riverside Insights is a growth-focused business on a mission to elevate one billion lives globally by 2030 through research-based assessments and technology for educational professionals, students, clinical and behavioral health clients, and workforce talent.
Why Join Our Team?
At Riverside Insights, achieving real results for students and educators is more than talk – it's what we do. As we grow, so will you, offering the chance to expand your skills on an ambitious, solution-focused team. Join us in making great work possible, where your well-being and dedication to making an impact go hand in hand. If you're ready for an ambitious, collaborative environment, Riverside is the place for you.
Riverside Insights is an Equal-opportunity Employer:
Riverside Insights provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
At Riverside Insights, every employee has the right to a welcoming and inclusive workplace where their diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued and celebrated.
Thank you for considering joining our growing team and our mission to help elevate potential globally! Please check out www.riversideinsights.com to learn more about our work.