Overview

Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Right Balance provides top-tier technology talent for innovative companies in the US. We’re in the top 50 companies to watch in LA.

Engagement Details

Our client is one of the top-rated marketing automation platforms built for small and mid-sized ecommerce brands in the U.S. They're the #1 reviewed app on the Shopify App Store and have helped over 17,000 merchants generate $7B+ in sales. Now offering a unified platform, they allow merchants to manage email campaigns, SMS automation, onsite popups, and soon—real-time 1:1 conversations—all in one place. By eliminating the friction of disconnected tools, they help brands build smarter, more profitable customer relationships.

Their mission is simple: to help ecommerce entrepreneurs succeed through easy, effective, and delightful marketing software. They are hiring a self-motivated, highly driven Frontend Engineer to work across our product and infrastructure to accelerate our growth.

You should join if:

• You want to work on large scale problems with people who are builders. Everyone working on the product, from the CEO, to managers, to designers and engineers has the mindset of a builder. We’re here to make great products.
• You care deeply about the results and outcome of your work and want to be involved in solving a problem from start to finish. We solve problems and build software collaboratively here, there’s no product or design handoff, and you’ll have an opportunity to be involved in shaping the solution, not just coding it.
• You’ve got a growth mindset and a desire to learn from and with those around you.
• You find complex and hairy problems interesting and have a tendency to run toward and not away from them.

Product Engineering:

• TypeScript and React on the frontend (Ruby on Rails for our backend).
• Postgres, MongoDB, and Redis for data stores.
• Deployed primarily to Heroku and use several AWS services.
• Engineers and designers working together in small, empowered teams without dedicated product managers.
• A comprehensive test suite, seasoned staging environment, an emphasis on automated testing, and a mature automated software delivery pipeline.
• High frequency deployment to production and low change failure rate.

What you'll do:

• Contribute to cross-functional teams to ship software solving business problems with ambiguous or challenging technical solutions, including those that may require significant changes to existing systems or creation of net-new systems entirely.
• Contribute to ensuring a high bar for the quality of the systems and software built.
• Write code to solve high-level issues with broad scope and complexity.
• Operate as a technical lead for projects where you have experience and expertise.
• Contribute to code review, system design, documentation, and the development of tooling and testing.
• Participate in the on-call rotation and incident response.
• Triage, investigate, and resolve bugs and codify common solutions and responses in run books.
• Contribute to an inclusive and equitable environment within your teams and among peers.

What’s in it for you

1. Learn and evolve your skills using the latest and greatest technology tools in a rapidly growing company.
2. Learn from the best people around you. We constantly challenge the status quo and invent new ways of building a great product.
3. 100% remote. Work anywhere, whether it is remotely in the comfort of your home, in a shared co-working space, in an RV on the beach, or while being a nomad in another country.
4. Work on challenging problems, innovate, and positively impact many people's lives while having fun doing it.

Required Qualifications

• Upper-intermediate to fluent speaking and writing English. Able to have a real-time conversation.
• 3+ years of full-time hands-on Software Development experience.
• 3+ years of full-time hands-on React.js experience.
• 3+ years of full-time hands-on Typescript experience.
• 4 hours time overlap with the US timezone.
• Professional experience with React or another modern JS framework (Vue, Preact, etc).
• Understanding of the fundamentals of web application development, frontend software patterns, common pitfalls, and performance considerations.
• Excellent communication skills that drive clarity and regularly achieve consensus among peers.
• Track record of improving the skills and performance of those around you.
• Patience, resilience, and excitement to take on work even when it’s challenging, ambiguous or complex.

Nice to haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent demonstrated ability.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are your typical clients?

The majority of our clients are venture-backed startups at the growth stage. Usually, at this stage, the company already achieved a product-market fit and is looking to expand rapidly. That’s where we bring the best engineering practices, strong architecture, the latest technologies, and consistent processes to help companies scale.

What is the length of your engagements?

Most of our long-term full-time engagements last multiple years. It allows you to evolve your career with the client company taking on more responsibilities.

What’s your company size?

The Right Balance team is 55+ engineers going to 75+ by the end of the year. The current client size team is 43+ people. The timing is great to be a part of a rapidly growing team making meaningful contributions.

What happens if the engagement is completed?

Most of our engagements are long-term in nature. That said, if the current engagement is ramping down, we’ll present you with more long-term opportunities to transition into.

What are your core values?

Client First: we only win when our clients win. We treat client challenges as our own.

Ownership: we embrace responsibility, taking on challenges, getting them to completion, and enjoying getting things done.

Quality: we’re passionate about achieving quality outcomes by applying meticulous attention to detail.