Senior Front End Engineer - job 1 of 2

Hi, I'm Julia, Engineering Manager at Customer.io. I'm looking for a Front-End Engineer to join our growing Engineering team.

We're looking for a product-focused Front-End Engineer to help us empower companies to build meaningful conversations with their customers.

As a customer engagement platform, one of our biggest challenges is to turn complex concepts and workflows into fast, accessible, and intuitive interfaces. And in this role, you'll have a direct impact on the product with a high degree of ownership and freedom.

Our small, remote-first team is fun-loving, passionate, and highly effective. As a distributed company we are committed to giving you the flexibility and freedom to work from anywhere in the world, on a schedule that fits your family and your life.

We genuinely value diversity (one of our core values is awkwardness for a reason). We believe that embracing unique perspectives and expertise is key to our success as a collaborative team.

Thus we understand that you might not have all the skills listed below, but that's okay. If you have a combination of some of the items and you're interested in developing the others, we want to hear from you!

What you'll do:

• Collaborate with the product, design, and backend engineering teams throughout the conception and development of front-end features,
• Develop maintainable, performant and well-tested UIs that help our customers easily send timely & relevant messages at scale,
• Contribute to our extensive design and component systems,
• Build and improve editors for messaging channels like email, push or in-app,
• Create dashboards to explore performance data visualization and customizable tables (more generic visualization over graphs),
• Work with our tech support teams to diagnose operational issues and help our customers to achieve their goals with our product,
• Learn, practice, and share with your coworkers through code review, pair programming, team collaboration, and training to help improve our collective knowledge and best practices together.

What we're looking for:

• A collaborative mindset backed by excellent communication skills and a desire to help us make great decisions in an empathetic and respectful way,
• Large experience using front-end technologies like JavaScript and CSS to build complex web applications. Ember.js experience is nice to have, but most of our engineers have succeeded while picking it up on the job,
• A solid understanding of how to create front-end web applications that are both accessible and performant,
• Comfort working in UNIX environments and applying modern collaborative development practices,
• Experience working with customers and applying a deep understanding of their needs to produce timely solutions to their real-world problems,
• Experience working within a distributed company is preferred.

About Customer.io

Our mission at Customer.io is to power automated communication that people like to receive. Today over 4,000 internet businesses use Customer.io to manage, send, and track performance of email, SMS, and push notifications. Unlike typical marketing platforms, Customer.io helps businesses increase relevance by using behavioral data: what people do or don’t do when logged in to a web or mobile app.

Benefits at Customer.io include:

We are offering a starting salary of $125,000 - $165,000 USD depending on experience and subject to market rate.

• Unlimited PTO - we recommend 20 vacation days (in addition to holidays and sick days) so that you can unwind, unplug, and recharge
• 100% medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance for you and your dependents
• 12 weeks paid parental leave - for birth, adoption, or foster care
• 401k retirement matching - up to 5% dollar for dollar match to retirement contributions
• Health and wellness allowance - up to $200 USD per month that can be used for your healthy living needs, including gym membership, acupuncture, massage, or bike repairs
• Home office stipend - up to $2,000 USD to help you get your home office set up so you can do your best work
• Internet + cell phone reimbursement - up to $200 USD per month for your internet and cell phone plans
• Co-working space reimbursement - up to $300 USD per month for those times you'd prefer to work in a co-working environment
• Learning + development - up to $2,000 USD reimbursement per year to use on conferences, books, classes, workshops, and passion projects - anything that will help you develop your skills
• 1 month paid sabbatical after four years at Customer.io - to treat yourself to a vacation, or spend however you choose
• Company retreats twice a year - we typically get together IRL every spring and fall, but most recently had an amazing virtual retreat!
• Flexible schedule, work anywhere you want! - as long as you have a reliable internet connection and some overlapping work time with your manager, you can work where and when you want

All final candidates will be asked to complete an employment and education verification authorization form (which allows us to verify your job history and education listed on your resume) as part of our pre-employment process.

Customer.io recognizes the stifling impact of systemic injustice on diverse communities. We commit to using our influence to increase inclusion and equity within the tech industry. We strive to build an inclusive team culture, implement bias-free hiring practices, and develop community partnerships to expand our global impact.

Join us!

Check out our careers page for more information about why you should come work with us! We are passionate about our core values of Empathy, Transparency, Responsibility, and Awkwardness and are looking for new coworkers to share and build that passion!

How to apply

Apply at the link below and tell us why you're interested in the position! In your cover letter, be sure to tell us the title of the last book you read. There is no advantage to applying early so put your best foot forward. We plan to respond to all applicants before June 30 with a status update about your application.

Here's what you can expect from our hiring process (though the order is subject to change):

1. 30 minute video call with Julia, our Engineering Manager
2. 60 minute Technical Interview with two potential teammates
3. Take Home Assignment and review with Zack + Richard