Senior Front End Web Engineer

About Us:

Elevate Labs is on a mission to improve people's minds.

We’ve helped millions of people around the world learn and improve concrete communication, memory, and math skills through Elevate, our first mobile app which has won Apple's App of the Year Award and been downloaded more than 60 million times. With Balance, our second mobile app and winner of Google's Best App award, we’ve personalized meditation and made it free for an entire year to help more people reduce stress, improve sleep, sharpen focus, and much more.

Elevate Labs is a fully remote company of voracious learners and passionate doers, driven by our vision to help billions of people lead healthy, joyful, and productive lives.

If our mission resonates with you, please consider applying!

The Role

You will join our newly formed web team, working across all our various web projects: web onboarding, account management, marketing website, and, potentially, web versions of our mobile apps.

We’re looking for an experienced Front End Web Engineer who can partner with Design and Product Management to help us build amazing user experiences to complement our award-winning mobile apps: Elevate and Balance. As a senior member of the team, you’ll have the opportunity to help us define our tech stack and drive significant new development.

This is a fully remote position anywhere in North or South America. We are happy to sponsor US visas and green cards, if applicable.

How You’ll Make an Impact Here:

• You’ll work across our entire web presence, including extensive new development

• You’ll mentor fellow engineers, help them grow their skills, and stay open to learning from your teammates as you continue to grow your own skills

• You’ll introduce new ideas to help the team iterate on process and technology

• While front end web will be your focus, you’ll occasionally have the opportunity to help out your teammates in other areas of the stack

Qualifications:

• You have 8+ years of professional software experience in front end web development

• You have shipped at least one customer-facing product

• You have helped build a web app from scratch

• You are an expert in at least one major JS/TS framework

• You are passionate about user interface and user experience

• You have experience building complex animations

• You write unit tests and develop code that supports automated testing

• You communicate clearly and are willing to give critical feedback to improve the user experience

• You proactively identify areas for improvement and drive projects to completion without a manager always directing your work

• You stay up to date with the latest web development news and technologies

Our Stack:

• Frontend: Largely Greenfield (existing stack uses Hotwire)

• Backend: Ruby on Rails

• Scripting: Python & Shell

• Cloud: Heroku, AWS, & CloudFlare

• Databases: PostgreSQL & Redis

• Data Analytics: Snowflake & DBT

• CI/CD: GitHub Actions

• IaC: Terraform

Bonus:

• Experience with at least some of our stack

• Experience working in the backend

• Experience with web to app funnels

• Experience with Wasm

• Experience with Rive

• Experience with a CMS

• Experience with SEO

• Interest in mental health, brain training, and meditation

How We Hire

At Elevate Labs, we seek to build high-impact teams with high talent density, and we invest a lot of time and care into the hiring process. Your resume will be reviewed by a human, so we encourage you to keep resumes short (one page should do), double-check for grammar errors, and submit it as a PDF.

During the interview process, you can expect conversational-style sessions, some with a technical focus, and coding exercises.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion:

We believe that there is no single candidate profile that guarantees success in this role. Experience comes in different forms; many skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. If your background is similar to the job description and you think you can excel in this role, please apply and tell us about yourself and the impact you could make at Elevate Labs.

We also know that diversity of identity, experience, and thought leads to more creativity, better problem-solving, and wiser decisions, which is why we're dedicated to adding new perspectives to our team. We are an equal opportunity employer; committed to diversity and building an equitable and inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and experiences, and we're taking steps to meet that commitment. We highly encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ folks, veterans, and people with disabilities.