Frontend Engineer

About the role

We created Frec to expand the possibilities for everyone and their money. We’re a tight team of builders, creators, and designers who want to be smarter with our money for our futures and our families. As a software engineer at Frec, you’ll create products that enable us to level the financial playing field and empower people to manage their own money. Some values we identify with are accountability, humility, compassion, and teamwork. If this resonates with you, join us at this pivotal time to help shape our structures, systems, and Frec’s future.

Frec highly values product ideas and feedback from all employees, in a true bottoms-up fashion. This means as an engineer, you will work with a growing team comprised of product managers, designers, and brokerage operations professionals to ideate, prioritize, prototype, develop, test, and iterate on software that will educate and equip people with newer and smarter ways to build wealth.

We’re looking for engineers who have an unrelenting sense of urgency and capability to move fast, have a strong sense of ownership, ability to deal with ambiguity and are enthusiastic about tackling new challenges to help us build a world-class financial platform.

What you will do

• Frontend Engineering: You will be working with a small team of experienced engineers and designers, less than 10, across all areas of the stack w/ focus on the frontend. You will shape how we approach building on web, API layout and design, thinking about app development, testing etc.
• “Full-Stack” Product Development: You will work collaboratively on the entire life cycle of the software development - from collecting requirements, to iterating on design, to implementation, and finally testing and operations. You will have the autonomy to drive large critical features/products end-to-end like integrating the concept of tax optimization into the existing product, handling stock transfers etc.
• Collaborate Collaborate Collaborate: You will partner closely with cross-functional partners to build a high quality product that you and our customers will love.

What we offer

• Competitive salary and equity grants
• Fully paid health, vision and dental insurances
• 401k
• Monthly allowance to help with maintaining a healthy body and mind (fitness & mental health components)
• Flexible (Unlimited) paid time off
• Visa sponsorship & immigration support
• Daily in-office lunch and dinner
• Office in San Francisco/New York for in-person collaboration (close to public transit options)

Tech stack

• TypeScript/Node, Python as the main components of the backend
• PostgreSQL as our data store, with Redis for caching and distributed coordination
• Distributed worker systems powering asynchronous and high-throughput tasks
• Deployed on AWS using containerized infrastructure
• GraphQL as the mode of building and exposing APIs

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