Overview

Are you are a Senior Front End Engineer with JavaScript experience interested joining as a foundational member of our engineering team?  Do you have a strong background in JavaScript interested in building a out the world’s number one Workforce Management System? If so, this might be the role for you.

Work Market boasts an impressive engineering team backed by successful and reputable investors such as Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital SoftBank Capital, Industry Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank. We recently received $20 million in Series C funding that is being reinvested back into hiring. We are looking for a Senior Front End Engineer that can build the tools and workflows that allow our customers to be more efficient and productive in a competitive marketplace.

Work Market is the leading platform for freelance labor. Our freelance management platform is providing the biggest brands in the world and freelancing businesses, with a solution that allows both sides to manage an end-to-end contract engagement at scale. We are right in the middle of a rapidly growing freelance economy that will make up 50% of the workforce by 2020.

What We Do:

We enable clients with the ability to expand and contract their workforce based on market demands and allow them to stay relevant and efficient in a competitive marketplace. We provide access to on-demand subject matter experts that allow companies to be productive and efficient. We offer freelancers the ability to have a flexible work schedule and to be selective about their project engagements while also building their portfolio.

Our Team:

Our engineers build the tools and workflows that allow our customer to be more efficient and productive in a competitive marketplace. We are customer driven, our engineers work closely with the Product team to help define and articulate a vision for the Work Market platform. We focus on providing simple, elegant solutions to complex problems.

Who You Are:

Desire to always be learning, growing and passionate about evolving our architecture

Goal oriented while always keeping the customer in mind

Realize the value of a collaborative and team oriented work environment

Define success as being committed about what you do, while having fun

Believe in building simple, well-tested systems that allow us to iterate quickly

What You Will Do:

• Architect our front-end application using advanced HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Frameworks
• Develop features/applications, including collaboration on defining requirements, prototyping, design, coding, testing and deployment
• Implement robust, highly usable and responsive UI components, with efficient code
• Contribute to design, code, specification and architectural reviews and technical documentation

Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience as a Front End Engineer
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Equivalent
• Exceptional at object-oriented JavaScript
• Experience with multiple frameworks, libraries, and modules such as Backbone, Underscore, jQuery, RequireJS, Grunt, Sass, and Jasmine
• Fun to work with (yes, we build for the enterprise…but nobody said we can’t have fun)
• Passionate about the emergence of the freelance economy
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced startup environment