The Role
**** Boost will be a global leader in HRTech for business.
At Boost, we foster an inclusive workplace culture that encourages meaningful
connection, collaboration, and innovation. Every mind is invited to ask
questions and actively seek new ways to achieve success and reach their full
potential. We operate as one with a growth mindset. This means spotting
opportunities, solving ambiguities and seeking effective solutions to
challenges that make things better.
Overview:
Welcome to the Web Experiences team at Boost! We are looking for a software
engineer II to join our team. We help every tech companies to hire qualified
developers. We make every custom coding tests for our clients to evaluate
candidates. You will work in a fast-paced environment on multiple projects
spanning different company areas, aiming to enhance and simplify how brands
engage with their customers through messaging. In this role, collaboration is
key as you work across various internal teams, external partners, and large
customers to deliver top-notch products for our brands and their customers.
This team oversees, among other products, the messaging window, which serves
as the face of Boost and represents the largest communication channel across
the globe.
You will:
* Work collaboratively in a cross-functional team (PM, UX, engineering, science) team to transform user stories into prototypes & production code
* Thoughtfully apply UI design principles & best practices for RWD
* Building & deploying user-facing features for multiple browsers
* Identifying & eliminating perf. & scale issues that ripple from front-end to back-end
* Required to participate in on-call rotation
* Be globally minded & inclusive - we are a global team and value the diverse contributions of others.
You have:
* 7+ years of software engineering experience in creating Web Intensive applications
* Deep knowledge and understanding of client-side architecture and experience in building large scale and high performance web applications
* Proficient in understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
* Proficient in Vanilla Javascript.
* Experience using CSS preprocessors such as SASS or LESS
* Experience using build tools such as Webpack, Gulp or Grunt.
* Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
* Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them
* Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
* Good understanding of scalability design principles
* Understanding principles of design and knowledge of user experience and accessibility
* Self-starter with strong motivation and execution capabilities
* Knowledge of frontend testing frameworks such as Jasmine and Karma is a plus
* Proficiency with JavaScript ES6 and Typescript is a plus
boost focuses on HR / Recruiting. Their company has offices in California.
They have a small team that's between 1-10 employees. To date, boost has
raised $100k of funding; their latest round was closed on January 2023 at a
valuation of $300k.
You can view their website at <https://boost.career>
