Frontend Engineer

About Gerald

Paying bills sucks. It sucks even more for about a third of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, and struggling to pay bills on time. About 100 million Americans are at risk of paying overdraft fees if they auto-pay their bills, and are forced to manually log into and pay up to 10 biller accounts each month. Why are so many people wasting their time and energy manually paying bills to avoid overdraft fees? Because they are not using Gerald!

Gerald is a Y Combinator-backed technology company based in New York. Our platform combines fintech, payments, and big data to create an empowering and rewarding user experience for making timely bill payments.

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Our mission

Gerald is on a mission to eliminate stress about paying bills. Gerald provides consumers with overdraft and late fees protection for their household bills. We are transforming bill payments by providing consumers with an application for linking and automatically paying biller accounts. Our app tracks and pays bills so our users don’t have to. We offer banking services; direct deposits, credit building, cash advance and rewards to simplify bill payments for both billers accounts and consumers.

❓ Role Summary

As a UI Engineer, you will be responsible for implementing the design and development of front-end applications that meet the needs of the user. Your focus will be on building the front end of the application along with our back-end engineers on our team with a focus on scalability, maintainability, reusability and testability.

On a day-to-day basis, you will be responsible for working with your delivery team to prioritize, plan and develop features for our application. You will spend a lot of time working with senior software engineers and directors; pushing the team towards the latest tools, technologies, and best practice and laying out the basic code architecture so an offshore team can run with it.

•  Skills:  React, React Native, Javascript, HTML, CSS

•  Location: Remote

⚡ What you'll do

• Discuss application features and design ideas with the team
• Research similar application designs and user interface modules
• Writing the front-end code and build the user interface, whether on React Native for our mobile application or on React.js
• Propose new technologies and implement PoC
• Identify performance & scalability challenges and provide a technical solution
• Advocate usage of new open source tools/frameworks and percolate the knowledge to the engineering team
• Debug code errors and troubleshoot software issues
• Conduct live application tests and tweaks
• Update web applications in line with user trends

🎯 What we're looking for

• 4+ years of experience as a UI Engineer
• Strong technical ability in React, Javascript, HTML, and CSS. React Native experience will be an asset due to mobile-version approach
• Experience with Typescript is preferred
• In-depth knowledge of user interface models, application design, and website functionality
• Understanding of layout aesthetics
• Good knowledge of cloud hosting tools like Netlify, AWS S3, Cloudflare, Heroku etc.
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable Modules and Components
• Deep understanding of Web Performance and Web Accessibility
• Take responsibility for their code: follow through with it and address any issues that result from it in the future
• Knowledge of industry standard software best practices, development lifecycle processes and Agile and SCRUM methodologies
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Graphic Design, Web Design, or similar field

🤗 Who you are

• Sharp mind, flat out smart, willing to take direction
• Ambitious, dedicated, and a little eccentric
• Team oriented, willingness to standardize code and architecture
• Strong attention to detail
• Head for problem-solving and analytical thinking
• Having a flexible working style
• Being self-motivated and having a desire to learn new technologies
• Comfortable with working unsupervised
• Good communication skills

📐 Why Gerald?

• Huge opportunity.  About a third of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, and are struggling to pay their bills on time. About 100 million Americans are at risk of paying overdraft fees if they auto-pay their bills. We have the ability to help a lot of people profitably.
• Challenging problems.  With every single customer that we onboard, it means we are dealing with millions of data records. The challenge is to scale up the product to handle so much data and process it efficiently, while taking all measures to ensure the security of the data. The goal is to make our system learn as quickly as possible so that it can give very accurate predictions when making suggestions related to consumers.
• A great team.  Our founding team has deep expertise in financial services, product engineering, data science, and machine learning, as well as degrees from MIT, Harvard, Columbia, Georgetown, and Yale. We try to take a scientific, data-driven approach whenever possible.
• Culture.  Having worked at high growth, early stage startups in the past, our team understands the value of work-life balance. We take weekends off and go on paid vacations.
• Resources and growth.  We're well capitalized with seed funding and are backed by Y Combinator and other top tier investors. We keep a lean team, and this is a rare opportunity to join us - you'll learn a lot, build cool products, and grow as our company scales!

🙌 What we offer

• Flexible working hours
• Generous paid vacation
• Work from home opportunity
• Opportunity as one of our first engineering hires to take on significant responsibility and ownership in building a product that can change the lives of thousands