Front End Developer

FRONT END SOFTWARE ENGINEER

We want to work with a front end engineer who is passionate about making the internet a better place! Kevel is a cloud-based service for building customizable, ad serving solutions quickly and easily. We are looking for a front end engineer with 0-3 years of experience to join our growing self-serve team!

JOB OVERVIEW

Kevel's self-serve team builds web apps for our customers' advertisers to configure and manage their own ads. We're a nimble team doing exciting greenfield work atop existing APIs. As our team continues to scale and support customers around the world, we are looking for a front end engineer with an appetite to learn, grow, and collaborate. As a front end engineer on the self-serve team, you will be responsible for turning dev-ready designs into usable web apps. You will build custom front-end components and render them via config.

As a key member of the team, you'll work closely with the product manager lead and the other engineers on the team. This team includes engineers with broad backgrounds in many front- and back-end technologies and deep expertise in existing Kevel systems. You'll have the benefit of their mentorship and support as you develop expertise in self-serve front end work.

This role reports to the product lead for the self-serve team.

LOCATION: Remote - US. This position is 100% remote. Applicants located anywhere within 3 hours of the east coast US time zone are encouraged to apply. Applicants must be legally eligible to work within the United States.

WHAT YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH:

• Work closely with your engineering colleagues to develop mastery in the self-serve front end
• Turn development-ready Figma designs into working software
• Make updates to existing front-end pages as needed, with designs as guidance
• Build custom front-end components and render them via config
• Add testing to existing front end code and incorporate tests when building new components
• Participate in design reviews with our product designer and product manager. Identify technical constraints where relevant & collaborate to find ideal approach

SKILLS YOU'LL BRING WITH YOU:

• Experience building a front-end web app with JavaScript or TypeScript. This includes using TypeScript- or JavaScript-based web frameworks such as Angular or Ember
• Some familiarity with unit, integration, and end to end testing
• Experience with React or willingness to learn
• Experience with Next.js or willingness to learn

QUALITIES YOU'LL BRING TO THE TEAM:

• Eager to learn. Willing to try things and fail (or succeed!)
• Appetite to learn new systems and frameworks
• Open to collaboration. Sometimes this means pairing, sometimes it means discussions
• You view obstacles as an opportunity to learn. You are not afraid to ask for help from your team and welcome support in getting unstuck if you encounter an obstacle.
• Motivated by solving customer problems and/or meeting revenue goals

WHY YOU'LL LOVE WORKING WITH US:

• Fully Remote Team: We are a 100% remote work environment with employees located around the world. You are welcome to work from home, one of our offices, a WeWork office, or an equivalent co-working space.
• Flexible Working Hours: We understand our employees have their own lives, responsibilities and working preferences. We trust our employees to communicate with their managers, and work when they work best.
• Paid Health Benefits: 100% employer paid health benefits for you and your entire family.
• Savings opportunity for the Future: Kevel offers retirement savings plans with employer contributions so employees can save toward future financial objectives.
• Rest and Relaxation: Unlimited personal time off - and we mean it! We trust our employees to take the time they need, whenever they need it. We also offer Paid Holidays + a Kevel Holiday Break (from 12/24 - 1/1 every year!)
• Home Office Stipend: You'll receive a new Windows or Mac machine (your choice) + a $500 home office allowance to purchase what you need to set up your work space properly!
• Parental Leave Support: We support both primary and secondary caregivers with salary continuation and benefits when our employees are growing their families.
• Free press benefits: Kevel believes all employees should have access to legitimate news sources. You'll receive a $300 annual allowance to subscribe to the news source of your choice.
• You'll work with an award winning team! We've won numerous Best Places to Work Awards for several years and counting! We've also won many awards for our Innovation, Business Intelligence, and our best-in-class products (Software of the Year, Cloud Company of the Year, Best Ad Tech and API Innovator).
• Full transparency. We embrace transparency and encourage you to read more about what we value through our Company Constitution and Employee Bill of Rights, our About Kevel page, and Careers Page.

Hiring Guidelines by Country: Kevel hires new team members in countries around the world. The benefits described above are offered to all employees, but the logistics of how these benefits are offered may vary country-to-country. Our Recruitment Team will share the specific benefits that are available in your location, and can help answer any questions about location specific eligibility requirements and benefits after the recruitment process begins.

ABOUT KEVEL

Kevel (previously Adzerk) offers the infrastructure APIs needed to quickly build custom ad platforms for sponsored listings, internal promotions, native ads, and more. We are committed to helping publishers drive new revenue and take back the Internet from ad tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Facebook.

Kevel was founded in 2010 in Durham, North Carolina. We embrace remote working culture with our entire team being spread across the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal and Singapore! Kevel is proud to be an inclusive workplace with one goal in common — we want to make the internet a better place.

ALL APPLICANTS ARE WELCOME, EXACTLY AS YOU ARE

We're building a global community - one that's safe for people of all backgrounds and walks of life. Our policies and way of working are guided by our core values of inclusivity, trust, empathy, and respect. We know we have more work to do, but firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic selves. Kevel is an equal opportunity employer, and we're proud of our ongoing efforts and commitment to creating a diverse, inclusive, and transparent workplace where everyone feels respected, heard, safe and accepted. At Kevel, we embrace our differences and consider diversity a superpower that drives the success of our organization.

We highly encourage people of all backgrounds and perspectives to apply, even if your experiences don't meet every requirement in the job description. We especially encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, veterans, and people with disabilities.

Individuals seeking employment at Kevel are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.