Staff Frontend Software Engineer

Application

Remote, United States

Full-time

Overview

Koyfin is a rapidly growing, VC-backed fintech startup looking for a Staff Frontend Software Engineer (Frontend) to build and scale our product from thousands to millions of users. This position is full-time and remote for US-based employees.

Our mission is to empower investors with easy-to-use analytics and beautiful charts to research stocks and understand market trends. Koyfin's vast, real-time data coverage includes data on stocks, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), fixed income securities, Foreign Exchange (FX) currencies, commodities, economics, financial news, and Twitter. Superior functionality combined with a delightful user experience explains why the number of users on Koyfin has tripled over the past year. Our daily users spend more than two hours per day on our browser-based platform. We’re not the only ones who think we’re on to something big. Koyfin is backed by Social Leverage and Craft Ventures, two of the savviest, value-adding seed-stage VC firms.

Superior functionality and a delightful user experience explain why we've had such strong traction. Our revenues have increased by 20% per month over the past 16 months. Efficiency is central to our culture and we've never overspent. We'll be cash-flow positive in 2023 and in a great position to grow in the current environment.

We’re not the only ones who think we’re on to something big. Koyfin is backed by Social Leverage and Craft Ventures, two of the savviest, value-adding seed-stage VC firms.

See what users say about us on Twitter and check out our Youtube channel to learn more about the product.

Who You Are

A talented engineer and we bet you have:

• 8+ years of experience working with Javascript and one or more modern frameworks (React preferred)
• Experience building large scale applications, with real time synchronization
• Comfortable using Redux and React Hooks
• Strong knowledge of user interface, user experience and delivering quality product
• Great written and oral communication skills; curious, collaborative, humble and an excellent problem solver
• Experience with one or more Javascript visualization packages such as D3, ReactViz, Victory, or similar

What you’ll be doing?

• Lead frontend development as part of a full-stack team to deliver the most urgent and challenging projects
• Work closely with the Head of Product and Head of Engineering to shape the product roadmap
• Build innovative functionality to help investors research stocks and understand market trends using charts, snapshots and dashboards
• Participate in engineering planning and grooming sessions, define best-in-class software development process
• Craft the frontend architecture to ensure scalability
• Provide technical leadership, code reviews and mentoring to engineers on your team
• Build complex reusable interface components from user-defined dashboard to the virtualized rendering of large data collections
• Examples of projects: Extend our in-house charting library so it can be used by other FinTech companies; Enhance our existing dashboards so they can be fully customizable by our users Architect a transition to a micro frontend framework.

What we offer

• High impact, interesting and challenging work
• A competitive compensation package including stock options
• Full benefits including medical dental and 401k contributions
• Fully remote, open-minded, passionate and results-oriented team
• An open environment where problems are solved by honest and rigorous discussion.