Senior Frontend Engineer (Levity)
About Ruggable:
Ruggable is a Los Angeles-based, venture-backed, rapidly growing e-commerce startup that is disrupting the $7B rug industry and revolutionizing the market for residential rugs. Our patented 2-Piece Rug System allows you to remove the top layer of your rug and wash it in your home washing machine, offering an affordable, stylish and convenient solution for young families, pet owners, and busy individuals. We're a small, entrepreneurial team with big ambitions. We have a strong brand, established traction, and amazing advisors fueling our steady growth. This is an opportunity to get in at the ground floor and solve for complex challenges, while charting your own career.
About Levity:
Levity (levityhome.com) is a new brand in the Ruggable portfolio. Launched in December 2020, Levity’s mission is to build and deliver innovative furniture products that let our customers live without worry. Our patent-pending Chair Systems have removable upholstery that can be washed in a home washing machine and easily interchanged for new styles, offering a stylish and convenient solution for families, pet owners, and active individuals. This is an amazing opportunity to help build an innovative e-commerce company from the ground floor as part of a small, entrepreneurial team with high growth ambitions.
Job Summary:
This is a unique opportunity to join a small but impactful team that is directly responsible for building a visually stunning, customer-first ecommerce experience on levityhome.com. As a Senior Frontend Engineer at Levity, you’ll work closely with our Director of Technology & Product Manager to define the website strategy, prioritize new site features and tests, plan and scope out frontend platform improvements, and maintain the health of our frontend code base. You will be responsible for making architecture decisions that ensure future scalability for our ever-evolving product pipeline and consistently growing business. As a leader on the Levity Tech team, you will be responsible for lifting the skills and expertise of junior engineers through direct mentorship and coaching.
What You’ll Do:
- Formulate quarterly tech road map and determine the long-term core product architecture
- Evaluate & define improvements to the existing infrastructure, performance, and user experience
- Lifts the skills and expertise of junior engineers through direct mentorship and coaching
- Work cross-functionally with product, design, and marketing
- Clearly understand how projects relate to business priorities and help reinforce that with the rest of the team
What You’ll Need to Have:
Required:
- 5+ years experience in software engineering
- Previous experience as a strong Frontend Engineer (our current stack is React, GraphQL, Node, AWS, Shopify - Liquid, and Python)
- Experience leading teams to architect and develop applications from scratch
- Experience building and deploying CI/CD and ETL pipelines
- Experience developing applications on a team (e.g., code review, test automation)
- Experience with A/B Testing
Preferred:
- Experience with eCommerce and/or public-facing applications and how they plug into internal tools (Shopify preferred)
- Experience with building and maintaining traditional Shopify sites and experience working on Shopify Apps and Themes
- Experience optimizing web performance and understanding impacts to metrics
- Preferred location in Los Angeles, but open to remote
At Ruggable, we offer competitive compensation and benefits packages. Ruggable is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We proudly recruit and hire a diverse workforce and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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