Senior Front-end (React) Engineer Offline

Help build technology that powers business aviation!

 

Portside is a venture capital backed company headquartered in San Francisco. We provide modern operational and financial software for the global business aviation industry, currently used by operators of 2,000+ business and government aircraft in 25+ countries.

 

● We help aircraft operators:

- aggregate aircraft data from multiple systems in a single data warehouse

- save thousands of hours every month by automating common business processes, e.g., aircraft owner billing statement (invoice) preparation

- improve profitability and enhance decision-making by introducing fleet-wide analytics and reporting

 

● We help aircraft owners:

- gain access to their aircraft’s data, e.g., plane and crew schedules, financials, upcoming maintenance, subscriptions, budgets, and documents

- perform self-service, e.g., by requesting flights and approving charter requests

 

● Unique opportunity

○ In 2021, in addition to our core platform, we are working in partnership with some of the leading private jet operators in the world on several new strategic initiatives

○ You will get to work on significant new modules, systems and functionality in a product company, with short development cycles and immediate customer impact

○ Help us grow into the leading financial & analytics platform for business aviation

 

● Stability

○ We are both well-funded and profitable

○ Led by a seasoned executive team. Harvard Business School and Berkeley graduates. Founded a Y Combinator company before (GetGoing, acquired in 2016). Grew a business to $1B in annual sales. Developed one of Time Magazine’s “50 Best Websites”.

 

We are looking for a Sr. Frontend (React) Engineer to help us develop strategic new software modules and critical customer-requested enhancements. You would be joining a 10-person frontend team (the entire engineering & product team is 30+ people). We use a modern technology stack, including:

 

○ Infrastructure: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

○ Back-end: Python, Django, PostgreSQL

○ Front-end: JavaScript, React, Typescript

○ Devops: Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform

○ Monitoring: Kibana, Sentry, LogRocket, Pagerduty, Prometheus, Grafana

○ Custom reporting: Jaspersoft Studio

○ Communication & design: JIRA, Confluence, Slack, Figma

 

What we are looking for:

 

○ 3+ years of front-end development experience

○ Strong understanding of JavaScript, TypeScript and React

○ Experience in writing semantic HTML5, CSS3, and CSS preprocessors like Sass and Less

○ Experience in “mobile first” applications development

○ Experience with State Management Libraries, e.g. Redux

○ Experience with form management libraries, e.g. Final Forms and Formik

○ Experience in developing against REST APIs

○ Understanding of Agile/SCRUM principles

 

Would be a plus:

○ Understanding of CI/CD concepts

○ Experience in developing “storybook first” components

○ Experience of testing applications with Jest, Enzyme and React Test Utils

○ Experience with material-ui

○ Experience with react-query

 

What we offer:

- competitive compensation

- ability to work remotely anywhere in the European time zone

- flexible schedule and no corporate bureaucracy

holidays, 20 working days of vacation, and paid sick days

- professional growth opportunities

 

We are currently at 11 people BE (Python/Django) / 9 people FE (JavaScript/Typescript/React), and are looking to grow the team gradually this year -- our technology stack is described in the job description in more detail. Also have 4 product, 2 devops, 3 people in QA, 2 designers

 

Company: the company is 3 years old, we are now profitable and are continuing to grow, i.e., do not need any outside financing at this point. At about 30 people right now (we have a number of people in sales). Planning to double revenue this year. In addition to our core product (described in the job description), we have several new projects/initiatives for this year.

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