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.

About Freelancer Larysa Rozumeyenko

Я працюю як незалежний ІТ-рекрутер (більше 11 років) від імені кількох американських продуктових компаній, з якими співпрацюю на довгостроковій основі (з деякими безперервно працюю більше 5 років:-). 100% вакансій передбачають remote зайнятість. Всі співбесіди - безпосередньо з менеджментом компаній (ніяких посередників:-)!

Company website:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/larysa-rozumieienko-a656533a/