Senior Frontend Engineer

About the Role

Join Alvys, an early-stage company ambitiously transforming the $800B US freight industry. As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will be instrumental in shaping the user experience of various web and native products. This role offers the opportunity to lead and innovate in frontend development, ensuring an intuitive and delightful customer experience. You will be a key player in our team, driving the frontend development of complex projects and mentoring other engineers.

Industry Insight

Transportation logistics, a complex and fragmented domain, is ripe for technological revolution. You'll be at the forefront of automating and standardizing a sector that moves trillions of dollars' worth of goods annually, predominantly by truck, yet lacks modern tools and solutions.

About Alvys

Alvys is on a mission to revolutionize transportation logistics. Combining hands-on industry experience with a world-class technical vision, we're building a multi-tenant SaaS platform that's becoming an essential tool for transportation companies.

Our Principles

• Engineering Excellence: We're committed to a principled approach, blending the best of practical and theoretical techniques to ensure superior code quality and architecture.
• End-to-End Ownership: Our collaborative environment ensures that if you build it, you run it.
• Blameless Culture: We focus on ownership and learning from mistakes in a supportive, finger-pointing-free environment.
• Core Values: Trust, transparency, and fairness are not just our company values—they're also the solution to the industry's underlying problems.

Tech Stack

Our cloud-native environment leverages Azure, .NET/C#, CosmosDB, Cognitive Search, and a suite of Azure services. Our front end utilizes TypeScript, Angular, Dart, and Flutter. Monitoring and alerting are handled by Azure Monitor & Application Insights, alongside numerous integrations with external services.

Minimum Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree in either Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related field.
• At least 5 years of experience working in frontend development.
• Proficiency in at-least one modern web framework such as React, Angular or Vue.
• Familiarity with common frontend build tooling and practices such as Webpack, Gulp, or Babel.
• Dedication to creating intuitive and engaging user interfaces.
• Commitment to achieving pixel-perfect layouts and maintaining consistency across products.
• Proven track record of effectively working with designers and product managers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Angular 14 or later.
• Experience in developing responsive and adaptive designs for a wide range of devices and screens.
• Skilled in handling and presenting complex data sets in user-friendly ways.
• Experience in mentoring other software engineers, with a focus on front-end development.
• Experience with owning front-end libraries and technologies.
• Experience in working on or building scalable design systems is a plus.
• Experience in building scalable design systems.

Responsibilities

• Stewarding front-end libraries and technologies for various web and native products.
• Building and owning products in collaboration with other engineers, designers, and product managers.
• Leading the execution of front-end development for complex projects.
• Providing mentorship and guidance to less experienced colleagues in front-end development.
• Advocating for advances in UI engineering practices to improve team performance and the quality of user experience.