Lead Front-end Developer

Licorne Society a été missionné par une startup SaaS / Cloud Services en pleine croissance pour les aider à trouver leur LEAD FRONT-END DEVELOPER

**About**:
**Basics**:

- **Based in**:Paris or full-remote position (1-hour difference from Paris timezone)
- **Contract**:Full-time permanent contract
- **Manager**:, Engineering Manager / Lead Developer
- **Team**:Engineering department, Merchant value squad
- **Budget**:from 63 to 80k€

is a 60+ people company that envisions a world where **brands keep their promises along the entire customer journey.**

That's why we enable brands to take control over the most volatile part of the customer experience —the post-purchase— so they increase brand loyalty and save support costs

**Our values**:

- **✊ Ownership **We choose to be here and to do what we do. We are responsible for our objectives and for the output of our work.
- **Initiative **Taking action without direction from above to improve our knowledge and come up with solutions to problems. Initiative is a key reason for success, and places an obligation not to stifle it. ‍
- **Empowerment **We encourage those below us to take action and support them if they make mistakes. We explain what we want accomplished and allow flexibility in how it is accomplished.
- **Caring **Being concerned about our co workers, our customers and the customers of our customers.
- **️‍ Ambition **Always seeing bigger and having a strong desire and determination to succeed.

**Job Description**:
**Context**:
At l'entreprise, we enjoy working with **humble **engineers **who seek to work in a learning, collaborative and friendly environment.**

Our developers come from **diverse education backgrounds **and know how to use & adapt their tools according to the challenges. They **do care and are proud of how they do their stuff but also why.**

They **enjoy contributing to the company & product activities **that allow them to make an impact beyond the code itself.

In this role, you will lead and implement the technical front-end roadmap and architecture for our product. You will ensure that the front-end codebase is of the highest quality and drive the continuous improvement of our front-end development processes and practices. Additionally, you will also participate in building new features and improvements for the product.

In the short term, we are focused on completing impactful topics, such as finishing the foundation and the adoption of our design system and migrating to TypeScript, while fostering strong collaboration between developers and designers.

In the medium to long term, we want to keep our codebase up to date and evolve it following industry standards, tackle new front-end topics that support the product strategy and ensure that our front-end implementations are properly integrated.

To learn more about how we’ve tackled front-end challenges in our growing team, check out our recent blog article, which provides valuable insights into our approach to handling front-end topics.

**Our team**:
You’ll join a team of **twelve **people led by (CPTO), (VP of Engineering) and (EM/Lead Dev)

This team is divided into two squads:

- **Online-shopper perceived value **:this squad has the ownership of all features that are directly dedicated to end-customers. Squad members will focus on features for which the benefits are mainly perceived by / or directed towards the latter.
- **Merchant perceived value (where we are hiring) **:this squad has the ownership of all features that benefit directly the Merchants. Squad members will focus on providing our merchant’s operations and CS teams with the tools and resources they need to be successful.

Your time will be split between your lead responsibilities and the product development responsibilities.

You’ll often meet with the technical leaders (CTO, VP Eng, EM) to sync on the front-end roadmap and be challenged on your decisions.

You will also collaborate with product designers to ensure we deliver a very good user experience yet in an effective way.successful.

You can learn more about our internal organization, technical challenges, methods and approaches thanks to our and on Welcome to the Jungle. ‍

**Our stack**:
**Tech**
- Ruby on Rails and Go for backend
- TypeScript, React (with Hooks), Redux, React Testing Library, CSS Modules, Webpack (with federated modules) for frontend
- Hosted on GCP
- Datadog, LogDNA, Sentry for monitoring
- Monolithic infrastructure + introduction of microservices (for about a year, 3 services today)
- PostgreSQL + Elasticsearch + RabbitMQ + Redis for storage
- Kubernetes + Docker for ops

**Global**
- , project management tool
- , messaging platform
- , documentation platform
- , payroll & compliance for french talents
- , people success platform
- , payroll & compliance for international talents

**Preferred Experience**:
**You could be a good fit if**:

- You have a deep knowledge of front-end technology, including React