Senior Frontend Engineer (Boston)

At Lendbuzz, we believe financial opportunity should be more personalized and fair. We develop innovative technologies that provide underserved and overlooked borrowers with better access to credit. From our employees to our dealers, partners, and borrowers, we’ve built a company and a culture around a resolute belief in the promise and power of diversity. We value independent and critical thinking.

We're looking for a dynamic Senior Frontend Engineer to join our team. As a key member, you will lead agile development cycles from inception to deployment, ensuring our systems are optimized for scalability and performance. Collaboration is key; and you'll work closely with cross-functional teams to enhance user experiences and streamline workflows. An ideal candidate will bring a strong architectural mindset, a passion for AWS and cloud technologies, and the ability to automate processes for maximum operational efficiency.

This position primarily emphasizes frontend development, comprising approximately 80% of the workload, with the remaining 20% dedicated to backend tasks.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in all aspects of agile software development, including design, implementation, and deployment
• Architect and provide guidance on building end-to-end systems optimized for speed and scale
• Work primarily in Ruby, React, and Node.js to improve our user re-payment experience
• Improve visibility across frontend, backend, infra teams
• Engage with inspiring designers and front-end engineers, and collaborate with leading back-end engineers as we create reliable APIs
• Collaborate across time zones via Slack, GitHub comments, documents, and video conferences
• Analyze manual processes and automate them whenever possible to ensure a smooth operation of workflows
• Work in partnership with fellow developers on implementing new ideas, features, and apps
• Collaborate with product management, quality assurance, customer support, and fellow software engineers to deliver features that meet our customers’ needs
• Research and prototype new technologies that can improve pipelines and build processes
• Perform additional tasks and/or duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor degree is required
• 6+ years of experience building cloud based software applications
• You care about the architecture & overall picture than implementing the logic of the product
• You are curious about AWS & cloud technologies
• Comfortable in all areas of the product life cycle - analysis, design, coding, testing, and troubleshooting
• Experience building web applicationsExperience designing and integrating RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of React, Node.js, and Javascript
• Knowledge of Ruby - good to have
• Excellent debugging and optimization skillsUnit/integration testing experience
• Knowledge of Linux, Bash & Docker

We believe:

Diversity is a competitive advantage. We celebrate our differences, and are better when we have a variety of experiences, viewpoints, and backgrounds.

Compassion is a strength. We care about our customers and look to build long-term relationships with them.

Simplicity is a key feature. We work hard to make our forms and processes as painless and intuitive as possible.

Honesty and transparency are non negotiable. We incorporate these traits in all of our interactions.

Financial opportunity belongs to everyone. We work every day to improve lives by extending this opportunity.

If you believe these things too then we would love to hear from you!