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Who We Are

Float is the worlds leading software for teams to plan their time. Launched in 2012, weve grown every year since, and remain proudly independent, self-funded and profitable. Were a team of 46 working 100% remotely and youll be partnering with team members distributed across the world including Australia, Canada, Mexico and Taiwan. Hear what our team has to say by browsing our blog, or reading our Glassdoor reviews(link removed) Check out what our customers think of Float from our G2 reviews(link removed)>

Were on a scale up journey, and were seeking people who thrive in this stage, given the autonomy, and the opportunity, to do the best work of their career.

Why Were Hiring For This Role

Our front-end team is responsible for our customer facing applications which are the primary method by which our customers get their value from Float. We support a web application, an iOS app, an Android app, and a desktop app (Electron), all of which share a considerable amount of code, and they are only getting bigger.

As our product continues to grow our customer base continues to grow with it. We are seeking a skilled engineer to help move things forward and also to provide the all important coverage and maintenance to ensure that we can continue to deliver the high quality experience that our customers have come to expect.

Thats where you come in.

Youll join a smart, capable group of engineers specifically focused on the web application, ensuring that the primary vehicle to deliver value remains exactly that. Youll be helping to push forward the state of the art in web-based resource management, allowing customers to make the most of their time and providing value far beyond our cost.

We have some ambitious goals as a company and in order to fulfill them, we have some equally ambitious goals for our web application. Were keen to be able to support our customers as they become more successful and grow, and this ever-increasing growth is starting to challenge some of our older systems. Were eager to re-imagine our front-end so that we are able to support customers that are multiples the size of our current larger customer.

In this role, youll be an integral member of the team, contributing regular impactful changes and improvements to an application used for significant intervals of time each day by over 4,000 customers.

Our Team Lead, Haakon, explains the important role you will play within our Interfaces team. Watch this video.

Youll be working asynchronously with a bright, dedicated team from across the globe, with a strong focus on taking complex problems and creating solutions that feel simple and intuitive for our customers.

What Youll Be Responsible For

Youll join our web application team and after an initial familiarization process youll likely find yourself leading a product-focused project in an upcoming cycle perhaps bringing to life our project reports with improved charts and visualizations, or adding delight to every interaction of our onboarding experience. Youll be responsible for discussing the specification with the Product and Design stakeholders, understanding the problem to be solved and satisfying yourself that we are able to produce a deliverable satisfying any constraints - performance being a key one.

Over time, youll likely specialize in some particular area of our application based on the overall front-end architecture, being responsible for resolving any regressions or bugs within that area as well as being the point of contact for any customer-sourced queries or similar.

As you become more comfortable with the product as a whole, it would be expected that you become more involved in the wider-ranging discussions on the future direction of our front-end architecture, and in particular how we can ensure that our web application can evolve to support our ambitious scaling goals, whether that be by wholesale rewrites of certain areas or strategic incremental changes or even simply more process & guidelines around how to develop within this performance-critical area.

You will quickly become a core member of the team, responsible for customer visible aspects of our product, working with our User Experience team to understand how our customers work with our product and how they want to use it, so that we can help them to make the most of it.

What Youll Need To Be Successful

Were looking for a strong, seasoned engineer with at least six years experience in leading and shipping successful and demanding projects to a global audience, working as part of a small focused team to deliver objectives, being comfortable managing your time and communicating clearly with other members of the team.

Youll be excited and eager to work on a sophisticated web application and solve data and presentation problems in a performant manner for our world-wide user-base. Youll understand the commitment that requires but also the fascinating challenges it can present.

Youd be described by your colleagues as a React expert and are completely comfortable working in an application written with React combined with Redux and Reselect for the state management aspects.

You have a passion for usability and able to account for the needs and ergonomics of both the end users of our interfaces, and the developers that will build them.

With respect to styling, we favor a CSS-in-JS approach that does not rely heavily on utility classesno Tailwind here!

Were currently in the process of migrating our front-end codebase to TypeScript, so familiarity with that is crucial.

In addition, you should be familiar with Jest or Vitest for all things testing and should be comfortable operating in a monorepo environment.

Experience with the following would be a big plus:

• Building Android and iOS apps with React Native
• Implementing Design Systems as a means to bridge the gap between design and development and provide a consistent user experience
• Accommodating accessibility standards and best-practices
• Working with distributed systems & event-based architectures at scale

Finally, you should be very comfortable working asynchronously, since the nature of our Engineering team is that we are distributed around the world. We rely on clear, concise, and proactive written communication to ensure we all have clarity and that any problems are raised in good time so we have the necessary time to react. You will have the freedom to set your own schedule and the autonomy to do so - provided you continue to deliver and communicate, were very hands-off on how you structure your days.

Why Join Us

Pay for this role is US $161,475 (Level 3). Heres a blog post with more information on how we determine our salaries.

Were a global async remote company with a diverse team of people from all over the world who share a common belief in living our best work life(link removed) We believe deeply in the idea of transparency and share our Float Handbook publicly so potential new team members can see first hand our perks & benefits as well as our ways of working(link removed) If you feel like you can thrive at Float to do your best work, we would love to hear from you.

Note: Industry research shows that women and those in traditionally underrepresented groups generally dont apply to jobs unless they check all the boxes for the role. If you feel strongly that you have what it takes for this role but dont check 100% of the boxesthats okaywe encourage you to apply anyway and highlight what you can bring to the table.

Hiring Process For This Role

Youll find a lot of useful information about our interview process and what its like to join our global team on the Float careers page(link removed) The hiring process for this role looks like this: