Overview

We're looking for a robust Senior Front-End Engineer to join our team. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Right Balance applies the latest technology and best engineering practices to help businesses grow. We’re in the top 50 companies to watch in LA.

Engagement Details

We are a USA-based company producing video solutions with the mission to advance scientific research and education. Our institutional clients comprise over 1,000 universities, colleges, and biopharma companies, including such leaders as Harvard, MIT, Yale, and Stanford. As a rapidly growing company, with offices in the USA, UK, Australia, and India servicing clients in over 60 countries, we are seeking talented individuals to join our company.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Front-End Engineer to help lead the development of fast, well-tested, and performant code for our web applications using React and supporting our legacy applications. If you are the kind of engineer passionate about developing well-built, reusable components following industry best practices, and love working in a collaborative environment with your product partners and dependency teams, then we want to talk to you. Join us, it will be fun!

What’s in it for you

1. Work with the latest and greatest technologies.
2. Learn from the best people. We constantly challenge the status quo, learn from each other, and invent new ways of building a great product.
3. We actually write automated tests. We take advantage of the latest automation tools like automatic deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and more.
4. Work remotely in the comfort of your home or a shared co-working space.
5. Work on challenging problems, innovate, and have fun while doing it.
6. Travel around the world. We offer occasional business trips to work with our clients face-to-face from their offices.

Required Qualifications

1. 5+ years of experience working as a front-end engineer.
2. 3+ years of experience with React.
3. 1+ years of TypeScript experience.
4. Hands-on experience designing and developing scalable, high-performing,and fault-tolerant applications for large enterprises.
5. Demonstrated understanding and implementation of software design principles such as SOLID and DRY with Software as a Service (SaaS), and multi-tenancy application development.
6. Embraces the concepts of Agile Scrum software development and its related collaboration and issue-tracking tools (e.g., JIRA, Rally).
7. Experience working in a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CICD) model, including GitHub and CI pipeline automation tools.
8. Ability to triage and resolve incidents and lead incident investigations.

Nice to haves

1. CSS Experience.
2. Knowledge of PHP (Laravel, Symfony, etc.) is a plus.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are your typical clients?

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

What is the length of your engagements?

Most of our long-term full-time engagements last multiple years.

What’s your company size?

The Right Balance team has 40+ engineers going to 100+ by the end of the year. The current client team size is 25 engineers, expanding to 50 engineers by the end of this year. It’s exciting to be a part of this growth making some 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.