In October 2024, our team released an exciting new extension of Circle: Marketing Hub. We're looking for a Senior Front-end engineer to join our Marketing Hub/CRM team as we aim to make Circle the top choice for creator/brand-led communities. You'll be working on features related to CRM, marketing, member sign-up/authentication, and community automations with workflows.
In this role, you will partake in all stages of the development lifecycle, from initial task definition to final deployment. As a senior engineer, you'll break down large epics into actionable tasks, follow through with development and testing, review PRs, push updates to production, and gradually release behind feature flags. Your responsibilities will also include bug-fixing and continuous improvement of the codebase. This role requires a high level of technical proficiency and a strong understanding of software development best practices.
What you'll be doing
- Work autonomously on a frontend architecture written in React and Tailwind CSS.
- Integrate with our Ruby on Rails backend through a REST API.
- Build critical features and improvements to Circle community platform, our Marketing Hub platform and Workflows (automations) tools.
- Improve the quality of our codebase, identify architectural deficiencies, and create achievable paths to solve/evolve them.
- Work closely with Circle's leaders throughout the feature spec + design process.
- Work closely with our designers to design and develop a world-class user experience.
What you'll need to be successful
- Strong alignment with our values, find our values on our career page if you haven’t read up on them yet.
- You are proficient in English (spoken, written, and reading) at a CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5.
- 5+ years experience working as a Front-end engineer on complex web applications.
- Strong proficiency in React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS and working with APIs.
- Strong judgment and attention to detail when it comes to architectural, product, design, and process decisions. Your judgment should inspire a high level of trust within the team.
- A desire to work in an environment which values speed of iteration and individual autonomy, while also embracing personal accountability and the ability to collaborate effectively as part of a dynamic team.
- Motivation to understand the business, our users, their needs & goals, and to deliver results.
- Comfortable in a fast-paced environment with a certain level of ambiguity.
- Adaptable with the ability to change direction quickly if necessary.
- Familiar with agile software development principles.
- Should be able to lead a complex project end to end with judgment and attention to detail when it comes to architectural, product, design, and process decisions. Your judgment should inspire a high level of trust within the team.
- Experience working on a fully distributed remote team.
Bonus points
- Previous experience working with community platforms.
- Experience working with a Ruby on Rails backend.
- Experience working on CRM/Marketing tools, with email deliverability, workflow solutions, or in the creator space.
- Experience at a fast-growing start-up.
- A track record of picking up new technologies and skills as you ship high-quality code.
Salary
$130,000 - $140,000 USD per year. The cash compensation range shown is a starting point. In addition to equity, benefits and perks, your cash compensation is subject to an annual review and increase on a once per year basis.
The fun stuff
- Fully remote: work from anywhere in the world!
- Autonomy and trust to do your job: we care about outcomes over everything else.
- Paid time away: all employees are given 35 days of PTO annually. We also offer a paid sabbatical after 5 years.
- Generous U.S. benchmarked compensation and startup equity no matter where you are in the world.
- Awesome medical coverage with 100% coverage for you and your family, or medical reimbursement options where applicable!
- Parental leave for parents expanding their family, or just starting one.
- Home office stipend to help you get up and running.
- Learning & development stipend to help you level up your professional skills.
- Annual bonus potential for roles that don't already receive variable income or commission.
- Company retreats: Twice a year, the Circle team gets together for a fully paid company retreat in incredible places around the world!
