Who We Are
Float is the world’s main software program for groups to plan their time. Launched in 2012, we’ve grown yearly since, and stay proudly impartial, self-funded and worthwhile.
As a licensed B Company, we’re dedicated to creating a constructive contribution to our group, clients, the surroundings, and the distant neighborhood. We’re a group of 55 working 100% remotely who imagine in dwelling our Finest Work Life.
You’ll associate with group members globally, together with Australia, Mexico, Italy, Nigeria, Canada, and the USA. Evaluation our information safety pointers about the place we rent right here.
We’re on a scale up journey, and we’re looking for individuals who thrive on this stage, given the autonomy, and the chance, to do one of the best work of their profession.
Why We’re Hiring For This Position
At Float, we’re devoted to delivering a quick, seamless expertise for our clients. As our common buyer measurement continues to develop, so does the complexity of their wants. This function is important to making sure that Float stays a best-in-class useful resource administration device, offering a easy and intuitive expertise for each consumer.
The Senior Entrance Finish Efficiency Engineer function is important in serving to us sort out one in every of our greatest challenges: optimizing the efficiency of our internet utility for bigger groups, significantly these inside our audience of 11-1000 members.
Our clients depend on the Float schedule as their “dwelling view,” and its efficiency straight impacts how shortly and simply they will plan, alter, and succeed. One among your essential duties shall be optimizing the efficiency of this characteristic.
Past optimizing our present product, this function can be about shaping the long run. You’ll guarantee new options are scalable, efficiency regressions are prevented, and our product evolves to fulfill the calls for of a rising buyer base. Your specialised experience in front-end efficiency will straight help Float’s development targets, each in increasing our buyer numbers and rising the group sizes we serve.
Additionally, you will assist foster a “tradition of efficiency” within the bigger Interfaces group by advocating for greatest practices and tooling, reviewing new code, implementing efficiency monitoring, and by sharing information with different group members.
It is a distinctive alternative to not solely make an impression inside our group however to affect the expertise of hundreds {of professional} providers organizations who depend on Float each day.
This function stories to Haakon, our Staff Lead (Interfaces). You possibly can meet them under, the place they clarify the necessary function you’ll play inside our Interfaces group. Watch this video.
You’ll be working asynchronously with a vibrant, devoted group from throughout the globe, with a powerful give attention to taking advanced issues and creating options that really feel easy and intuitive for our clients.
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 CompilerSchedule Optimization: Engaged on the efficiency of the Schedule, in addition to engaged on current efficiency points which have been flaggedPerformance Take a look at Suite: Changing into aware of and work on stabilizing our inner efficiency check suite
As soon as you’re a bit extra settled, we count on that you’ll bounce into the next tasks:
Entrance-end efficiency: You’ll be contributing to a best-in-class front-end efficiency of our productTooling and Processes: Defining performance-oriented tooling and implementing best-practices for the bigger Interfaces Staff, in addition to sharing your information.Roadmap: Personal and outline the roadmap for performances initiatives and improvementsOwnership: Of the efficiency and front-end for internet app capabilities just like the Schedule, Reside Updates, and Search
What You’ll Want To Be Profitable
We wish you to like your work and imagine that these abilities will let you succeed within the function. Making use of these abilities requires:
Technical abilities
Experience in Javascript/Typescript and ReactExperience optimizing React applicationsOwnership or robust contribution to front-end efficiency on merchandise with giant consumer bases and excessive information volumes
Important abilities
Buyer-oriented mindsetInvestigative mindsetHigh ranges of autonomy
As a totally distant group, we’re searching for somebody snug with asynchronous communication because the default, which suggests you have got earlier distant expertise and are snug utilizing instruments like Slack, Loom, and Linear to speak as wanted. Don’t fear—you should have important deep work time since we’ve only a few conferences.
Why Be a part of Us
Pay for this function is US $167,471 (Stage 3). Right here’s a weblog submit with extra info on how we decide our salaries.
We’re a world async distant firm with a various group of individuals from all around the world who share a typical perception in dwelling our greatest work life. We imagine deeply within the concept of transparency and share our Float Handbook publicly so potential new group members can see first hand our perks & advantages in addition to our methods of working. For those who really feel like you’ll be able to thrive at Float to do your greatest work, we’d love to listen to from you.
Hiring Course of For This Position
You’ll discover a number of helpful details about our interview course of and what it’s like to affix our world group on the Float careers web page. The hiring course of for this function appears like this:
Preliminary First Meet (20 min): You may meet with Julia, Expertise Supervisor, to debate your curiosity within the function and assessment your questions on working at Float.
Technical Task (4 hours): You’ll full a take-home technical project that may assess your skill to establish and talk efficiency points on an actual utility and counsel options. You’ll be paid an honorarium after completion of your take-home project, and can obtain suggestions in your project whatever the consequence.
Technical Interview (45 min): You’ll meet with Gevorg & Fabio, to debate your technical functionality, front-end engineering expertise, in addition to your strategy to the take-home project.
Supervisor Interview (45 min): You’ll meet with Haakon, Staff Lead (Interfaces), to dive deeper into your abilities, expertise, and targets for the function.
Founder Interview (30 min): You’ll meet with Lars, Float’s CEO, to get to know you and see when you have potential to be an amazing addition to the group.
Word: Business analysis exhibits that ladies and people in historically underrepresented teams usually don’t apply to jobs except they verify all of the bins for the function. For those who really feel strongly that you’ve what it takes for this function however don’t verify 100% of the bins—that’s okay—we encourage you to use anyway and spotlight what you’ll be able to carry to the desk.