Who We Are
Waft is the sector’s main tool for groups to plot their time. Introduced in 2012, we’ve grown yearly since, and stay proudly impartial, self-funded and winning.
As a licensed B Company, we’re dedicated to creating a good contribution to our crew, consumers, the surroundings, and the far flung neighborhood. We’re a crew of 55 running 100% remotely who imagine in dwelling our Highest Paintings Existence.
You’ll spouse with crew individuals globally, together with Australia, Mexico, Italy, Nigeria, Canada, and the US. Evaluation our knowledge safety tips about the place we rent right here.
We’re on a scale up adventure, and we’re searching for individuals who thrive on this level, given the autonomy, and the chance, to do the most efficient paintings in their profession.
Why We’re Hiring For This Function
At Waft, we’re devoted to turning in a quick, seamless revel in for our consumers. As our reasonable buyer dimension continues to develop, so does the complexity in their wishes. This position is important to making sure that Waft stays a best-in-class useful resource control device, offering a clean and intuitive revel in for each person.
The Senior Entrance Finish Efficiency Engineer position is very important in serving to us take on certainly one of our largest demanding situations: optimizing the functionality of our internet utility for higher groups, in particular the ones inside our target market of 11-1000 individuals.
Our consumers depend at the Waft time table as their “domestic view,” and its functionality without delay affects how temporarily and simply they are able to plan, modify, and prevail. One in every of your major obligations can be optimizing the functionality of this option.
Past optimizing our present product, this position may be about shaping the long run. You’ll be certain that new options are scalable, functionality regressions are have shyed away from, and our product evolves to satisfy the calls for of a rising buyer base. Your specialised experience in front-end functionality will without delay give a boost to Waft’s expansion objectives, each in increasing our buyer numbers and extending the crew sizes we serve.
You’re going to additionally assist foster a “tradition of functionality” within the higher Interfaces crew via advocating for ideal practices and tooling, reviewing new code, imposing functionality tracking, and via sharing wisdom with different crew individuals.
It is a distinctive alternative not to simplest make an have an effect on inside our crew however to persuade the revel in of 1000’s {of professional} products and services organizations who depend on Waft each day.
This position reviews to Haakon, our Staff Lead (Interfaces). You’ll be able to meet them underneath, the place they provide an explanation for the essential position you are going to play inside our Interfaces crew. Watch this video.
You’ll be running asynchronously with a vibrant, devoted crew from around the globe, with a powerful center of attention on taking complicated issues and developing answers that really feel easy and intuitive for our consumers.
What You’ll Be Accountable For
Early on, you’ll bounce proper into:
- Upgrading to React 19: Upgrading us from React 18 to 19, in addition to optimizing for the brand new React Compiler
- Agenda Optimization: Running at the functionality of the Agenda, in addition to running on current functionality problems which were flagged
- Efficiency Take a look at Suite: Changing into accustomed to and paintings on stabilizing our inner functionality take a look at suite
As soon as you’re a bit extra settled, we predict that you are going to bounce into the next tasks:
- Entrance-end functionality: You’re going to be contributing to a best-in-class front-end functionality of our product
- Tooling and Processes: Defining performance-oriented tooling and imposing best-practices for the bigger Interfaces Staff, in addition to sharing your wisdom.
- Roadmap: Personal and outline the roadmap for performances projects and enhancements
- Possession: Of the functionality and front-end for internet app purposes just like the Agenda, Reside Updates, and Seek
What You’ll Want To Be A hit
We wish you to like your paintings and imagine that those abilities will permit you to prevail within the position. Making use of those abilities calls for:
Technical abilities
- Experience in Javascript/Typescript and React
- Enjoy optimizing React packages
- Possession or robust contribution to front-end functionality on merchandise with huge person bases and prime knowledge volumes
Very important abilities
- Buyer-oriented mindset
- Investigative mindset
- Top ranges of autonomy
As a completely far flung crew, we’re searching for somebody happy with asynchronous communique because the default, because of this you may have earlier far flung revel in and are comfy the usage of equipment like Slack, Loom, and Linear to be in contact as wanted. Don’t concern—you are going to have important deep paintings time since we’ve got only a few conferences.
Why Sign up for Us
Pay for this position is US $167,471 (Stage 3). Right here’s a weblog submit with additional information on how we decide our salaries.
We’re a world async far flung corporate with a various crew of folks from in all places the sector who proportion a commonplace trust in dwelling our ideal paintings lifestyles. We imagine deeply within the concept of transparency and proportion our Waft Guide publicly so attainable new crew individuals can see first hand our perks & advantages in addition to our techniques of running. If you are feeling like you’ll be able to thrive at Waft to do your ideal paintings, we would really like to listen to from you.
Hiring Procedure For This Function
You’ll to find numerous helpful details about our interview procedure and what it’s like to enroll in our world crew at the Waft careers web page. The hiring procedure for this position seems like this:
Preliminary First Meet (20 min): You’ll be able to meet with Julia, Ability Supervisor, to talk about your hobby within the position and evaluate your questions on running at Waft.
Technical Task (4 hours): You’ll entire a take-home technical task that may assess your talent to spot and be in contact functionality problems on an actual utility and counsel answers. You’re going to be paid an honorarium after of completion of your take-home task, and can obtain comments for your task without reference to the result.
Technical Interview (45 min): You’ll meet with Gevorg & Fabio, to talk about your technical capacity, front-end engineering revel in, in addition to your option to the take-home task.
Supervisor Interview (45 min): You’ll meet with Haakon, Staff Lead (Interfaces), to dive deeper into your abilities, revel in, and objectives for the position.
Founder Interview (30 min): You’ll meet with Lars, Waft’s CEO, to get to understand you and notice in case you have attainable to be a really perfect addition to the crew.
Word: Trade analysis displays that ladies and the ones in historically underrepresented teams typically don’t practice to jobs except they test the entire packing containers for the position. If you are feeling strongly that you’ve what it takes for this position however don’t test 100% of the packing containers—that’s ok—we inspire you to use anyway and spotlight what you’ll be able to carry to the desk.