Software Engineer III - Front end (Javascript/Typescript)

About the Company
At Emburse our mission is to help make our users’ lives – and their businesses – better. We are dramatically transforming how organizations manage corporate expenses and invoices. We humanize work by automating manual tasks and saving users’ time, so they can focus on what matters most – their family, community, or more rewarding work. We help CFO’s give their employees a simple and amazing experience while ensuring compliance and reducing costs. Our solutions are tailored for companies from start-ups and SMBs to enterprises such as Microsoft, Pinterest, Bosch, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Estee Lauder. We have more than 18,000 customers and 12 million users globally.

Emburse software engineers contribute to the development of an engaging and interconnected set of system solutions. As an engineer, you will enhance the experiences of your customers, solve interesting challenges, and design new solutions. Emburse, known for its innovation and award-winning technologies, is strong on engineering. This ensures you will have access to the best and brightest minds in our industry to grow your experience and career within Emburse.

Essential Functions:
• Technical
• Self-sufficient in at least one large area of the codebase
• Mastery of at least one language and developing mastery of multiple other languages, frameworks and tools
• Identifies viable alternative solutions and presents them
• Understanding of relational databases, development frameworks, and commonly used industry libraries.
• Understanding of testing and integration testing techniques
• Moderate understanding of how a handful of key sub-systems interoperate
• Ability to read and understand existing code and offer recommendations for improvement
• Understanding of OWASP

• Process
• SDLC processes are followed, including adopting agile-based processes/meetings, peer code-reviews, and technical preparations required for scheduled releases.
• Understands product roadmap and how one contributes to the overall objectives
• Capability of prioritizing tasks
• Estimates their own work
• Learns and applies secure software development practices, reviews code for vulnerabilities and raises awareness of secure programming practices

• Impact
• Fixes bugs of moderate complexity and demonstrates proficient debugging skills
• Reviews code for team members, providing in-depth comments
• Develops new features or enhancements with minimal supervision
• Delivers medium level refactoring
• Implements unit testing and integration testing where needed
• Produces quality technical documentation
• Makes technical documentation/knowledge base contributions and technical team presentations

• Communication
• Gives constructive feedback to team members
• Understanding of industry jargon and business concepts
• Raises roadblocks and updates estimations as needed

Education:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent years’ experience

Experience:
• Required: Minimum of 4 years of software development experience

Required Skills:
• Professional experience building web applications in React, Angular or a similar framework
• Professional experience with SQL and relational database management systems (e.g. MySQL)
• Experience working with source control (e.g. Git)
• Experience designing and building JSON or REST services and APIs
• Experience working with 3rd party APIs, workflow and integration architectures
• Experience with cloud service providers (e.g. AWS, Azure)
• Experience building web applications with Vue.js, React, Angular or a similar framework
• Professional experience with Sass, and/or PostCSS
• Knowledge of common CSS methodologies (BEM, ITCSS, OOCSS, Utility First)
• Experience with modern JavaScript syntax (promises, async/await, rest/spread)
• Experience with front end build tools (Webpack, Rollup, Gulp)

How We Hire
We value great candidate experiences and commit to providing a transparent interview process and responsive communication. Qualified candidates will be asked to complete a short technical screening, after which interviews are scheduled with several engineers at Emburse. During the interview process, you'll have the opportunity to speak openly with engineers about their experiences working at the company. We're productive with decisions and usually complete the interview process with a candidate within two weeks.

Emburse provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Emburse complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location where the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.

How We Hire
We value great candidate experiences and commit to providing a transparent interview process and responsive communication. Qualified candidates will be asked to complete a short technical screening, after which interviews are scheduled with several engineers at Emburse. During the interview process, you'll have the opportunity to speak openly with engineers about their experiences working at the company. We're productive with decisions and usually complete the interview process with a candidate within two weeks.

Emburse provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Emburse complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location where the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.