If you read the below description and feel this position excites you, but your experience does not add up 100%, we encourage you to still apply and tell us why! We look forward to learning what makes you passionate and purposeful. 

Are you fanatical about great customer experiences? Do you love digging into a customer’s pains, industry trends, market conditions, and more, all to evaluate the information, chew it up, and deliver a solution?

Join us as a Junior Front-End Software Development Engineer in the New Orleans office, and be instrumental in helping achieve our vision to change behavior and revolutionize payment in the gigantic and increasingly tech-savvy construction industry.

As a front-end software developer, you'll be responsible for the coding of our innovative designs and layouts of our website and products. Front-end development responsibilities include taking mock-ups or graphic designs to building fully functioning features with HTML/CSS/JS for our products and integrating with back-end systems; fashioning and engineering application functionality.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Develop and maintain responsive and cross-browser compatible front-end user interface code.
• Create website layouts and user interface by using standard HTML/CSS practices from designs/mockups.
• Integrate with PHP backend components. 
• Stay plugged into emerging UI/UX technologies/industry trends and apply them into operations and activities.
• Cooperate with web designers to match visual design intent.

Qualifications and Skills

• 1-4 years of front-end development experience.
• Strong, demonstrable understanding of asynchronous programming concepts.
• In-depth knowledge of modern HTML/CSS and Javascript.
• Experience with responsive design, and mobile-first approach as well as a good knowledge of previous browsers’ limitations.
• Experience and hands-on skills in JS and one or many modern web frameworks such as Angular.js, Backbone.js.
• Experience with source code version control systems such as Git 
• Ability to write modular, scalable, and clean code.
• Strong organizational skills to juggle multiple tasks within the constraints of deadlines.
• Must have strong problem-solving abilities, self-starter, sound team player.
• Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment, learn rapidly and master diverse web technologies and techniques.
• Takes pride in quality architecture and well structured extensible code

About Levelset

Levelset has been named one of the "Best Places to Work" by New Orleans CityBusiness four years in a row for our mission-driven culture and commitment to internal and external growth. We are growing rapidly and looking for new exciting team members to add their unique talents to our mission. We empower contractors to always get what they earn, and our software platform makes lien rights, payment paperwork, and compliance in the construction industry simple and stress-free, so contractors and suppliers can get paid faster, have easier access to capital, and less surprises.

With the recent $500 Million acquisition by Procore, a leading provider of construction management software, Levelset will continue to empower people in construction to get payment under control, facilitating smooth payments and successful projects. Together both companies will deliver on our joint missions to improve the lives of everyone in construction even faster! 

With offices in Austin, Texas, Cairo, Egypt and headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana Levelset team is 350+ people and growing.

Why Levelset

• We’re a rapidly growing team working on interesting and worthwhile problems
• With a newly distributed workforce, we make engagement and employee wellness even more of a priority. We want you to love your job! 
• We believe professional growth (i.e. building your skills) is essential. Working here provides the opportunity for increased responsibility, continuous learning, and more.
• We have a very welcoming culture that starts at the top with our CEO.
• Nothing is a secret here, we think honesty and transparency create a productive workplace.
• Recognition for hard work and demonstrating our core values is important to us.

Benefits

• Competitive health benefits, including mental, emotional, and behavioral health benefits and an easy to use Employee Assistance Program.
• Flexible sick & personal leave policy needed for health, family, and parenting during this tough time.
• Open vacation policy without a cap on the number of days-off. We do require employees to take a minimum of 5 days off in a row each year. 
• Equity, per company’s general stock grant plan 
• 401k account through Betterment which allows you to seamlessly save money for retirement directly from your paycheck
• Learning and Development Opportunities: In the spirit of our core value to Learn Enough, we offer a book reimbursement program. If you share what you learned from a book with the team, we'll reimburse you for it. We also provide ample room for learning and development opportunities through Coursera online courses, outside speakers, and opportunities to learn skills from your colleagues.

Levelset is committed to providing an environment where any and all people feel welcome, respected, and free to be their authentic selves. We welcome applicants of all gender identities, sexual orientation, educational background, religion, ethnicities, veteran status, and citizenships.

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