When you join the Fountain team, you become part of the leading enterprise solution for frontline workforce management. Fountain’s automated, customizable platform provides a seamless applicant experience for workers, while ensuring organizations can scale and manage their frontline talent.
We’ve helped hundreds of companies like UPS, CLEAR, Stitch Fix, GoPuff, Fetch, and sweetgreen to hire, onboard, and manage over 14 million workers in more than 75 countries.In 2022, we closed $185M in our Series C, led by SoftBank and B Capital.Join our growing team of highly collaborative, ambitious, and forward-thinking Fountaineers as we empower our hundreds of customers and millions of frontline workers around the world.Let’s elevate frontline work together.
About the Role:
As a Staff Front-End Software Engineer in the Fountain One platform team, you will be part of a dedicated team of 3 to 4 developers working on developing new products and features that span across the entire Fountain suite of products, which includes planning, architecture, development, and maintenance. To do so, you will receive support from product managers, designers, and other software engineers.To succeed in this position, it is important to have a proven track record of working with rich enterprise products and a solid technical background in frontend development..The Fountain One platform team is organized into product squads, each responsible for various areas across multiple stacks.
The goal of this team is to deliver platform and product enhancements to increase customer value and engineering practices across the various Fountain offerings.The team operates with agility and speed. You will be expected to make decisions even when faced with uncertainty, and you will have the freedom to do so. In fact, you will operate with the autonomy typically found in early-stage product development, rather than in a larger organization.This role requires collaboration within a globally distributed organization, spanning different time zones, continents, and cultures (including Western and Northern Europe, USA, South Africa, India, and more). This role is remote but you must be based in France.
What you’ll be doing:
- Develop, maintain and test intuitive interfaces using modern front-end technologies
- Work closely with the design team to transform wireframes and mockups into UI components
- Implement responsive designs that ensure a seamless experience across various devices and screen sizes
- Improve and drive architecture decisions of our frontend components and frameworks
- Engage in code reviews and pair programming sessions to uphold code excellence, uniformity, and adherence to best practices
- Identify and resolve performance constraints, optimizing applications for peak speed, scalability, and user convenience
- Staying up-to-date with industry trends, continuously seeking opportunities to enhance the user experience
What you should bring:
- Minimum 8 years of extensive software engineering experience, specializing in front-end development
- Demonstrated track record in product-focused software development
- Proficiency in modern front-end technologies, including but not limited to:
- React, TailwindCSS, MUI, Vite, Vitest/Jest, Playwright, Storybook
- Strong problem-solving abilities with a keen eye for user interactions and system architecture
- Ability to bridge Figma prototypes and code seamlessly, showcasing a keen sense of UI/UX considerations
- Solid understanding of responsive design principles and mobile-first development.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, to foster effective collaboration with team members and stakeholders
- A passion for creating user-centric designs and a drive to stay up to date with the latest trends in UI/UX
- Capability to work autonomously and confidently, even amidst dynamic circumstances.
- Demonstrated ability to identify misaligned UI components, irregular spacing, color inconsistencies, and UI component malfunctions
- Proficiency in Agile methodologies, with a history of collaboration within cross-functional teams
- Preference for candidates with prior experience in startup environments and remote international settings
Even if you do not meet all the requirements above, we still encourage you to apply for this position. While we try to be thorough with our prerequisites, not everything about you as a candidate can be condensed into a list of bullet points. What do you have to lose?
Fountain offers an incredibly unique work environment.
We employ a diverse team all over the world. Each Fountaineer is given the freedom to do their best work from wherever they choose. We also understand the importance of in-person connections and hold in-person meetings with your team and meet annually as an organization to build our relationships and focus on the future of moving Fountain Forward. The benefits we offer in the United States include competitive health plans and a retirement plan. Some Fountain-wide perks offered to all employees across the globe include a flexible vacation policy, paid holidays, monthly lunch stipends, annual allowances for ongoing education related to your profession and career advancement, along with home office, cell phone, and wellness reimbursements.
Fountain is a global employer, so some benefit offerings will vary from country to country.Fountain is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, socioeconomic status, disability, and veteran status.For information about how we use your information and the rights you have with respect to your information, visit our Privacy Policy.#LI-Remote
