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### A bit about Newfront\nFrom the Mayflower to the moon landing, every venture relies on insurance. The $1 trillion insurance industry is fundamental to our economy and society, but remains stuck in the stone age. Incumbents rely on antiquated pen-and-paper process and there's a huge opportunity to transform it through technology. At Newfront, we're building software to supercharge insurance brokers and help them deliver a delightful experience to clients.\n\nWhile we’re a technology-driven company, we believe that people and trusted relationships matter. Newfront believes in empowering people rather than "disrupting" them. Our singular mission is to create the future of work for this massive industry.\n\nWe believe breakout growth creates breakout opportunities and diversity drives innovation.\n\nAs an Engineering Lead at Newfront, you will work with a team building features across the platform to help clients manage their risk and supercharge our brokers. There are tons of challenging technical problems to solve that directly impact the lives of your teammates and Newfront clients.\n\nNewfront scales by hiring brokers who join with their book of business. Through automation and artificial intelligence, we eliminate paperwork and pay brokers a higher split of their commission revenue. We represent a paradigm shift in the industry and career path for tens of thousands of brokers.\n\nThis position is open to remote candidates with Pacific Time Zone preferred. ***#LI-Remote***\n\n\n* 🎥 To learn more about the technology we're building, watch our video [Engineering at Newfront](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6513862682058330112/)\n* 🚀 To learn more about our mission and values, check out our [Careers Page](https://www.newfront.com/careers) or [Key Values](https://www.keyvalues.com/newfront)\n* 💰 To learn more about our funding, check out this [Forbes article](https://www.forbes.com/sites/igorbosilkovski/2020/10/20/exclusive-meet-the-entrepreneurs-who-have-raised-over-100-million-to-digitize-insurance/?sh=727e74a03206)\n\n### What you'll work on\n\n* ***Lead the development of product features:*** You'll be involved during product discovery and you'll contribute to the technical design process. You are product-minded and able to collaborate with a Product Manager to define the product roadmap and vision. You'll be responsible for speccing and guiding your team in building out features and infrastructure.\n* ***Shape business processes:*** As Newfront is a technology-enabled brokerage, we are looking for new ways to improve business processes by using technology. You will become the expert on how an area of the business functions and work directly with stakeholders to build optimizations.\n* ***Define technical direction:*** You will help shape the technical vision and roadmap for a large area of the product. You will also influence best practices and introduce new technologies when appropriate. You'll need to clearly communicate your vision with the team to gain support and a shared understanding of the technologies.\n* ***Mentor other engineers:*** You will working with more junior engineers on your team to help them grow and develop their skills.\n\n### Requirements\n\n* ***5+ years of engineering experience.*** You have previous success developing and shipping a large-scale application with a user-empathetic mindset\n* ***2+ years of experience leading an engineering team.*** You have proven abilities in providing technical direction for a small to medium team of engineers.\n* ***You're product-minded.*** You take initiative to understand production intention, team goals, business context, and user problems to propose improvements, eliminate gaps, and reduce risk in the project. You contribute to and drive the teams roadmap with product and design. You meet with stakeholders across the company when needed to eliminate gaps in your knowledge. You work closely with design to make sure that a design is able to be built and that it has a logical system behind it.\n* ***Security-minded,*** You have a detailed understanding of security protocols like OAuth2/OIDC/JWT. You understand client-side cookie authentication and JWT. You should have an understanding of front-end security risks and how to mitigate them.\n* ***You're highly skilled with web technologies including JavaScript (React/Node), HTML, and CSS.*** These are important foundational skills for a front-end engineer and impact everything from performance, to maintainability, to accessibility. You understand which features can be used across the various browsers, you understand how to make a website accessible, and you know how to implement responsive design.\n* ***You have experience architecting complex front-end web applications. We use React/Next.js,*** but you might have experience with Ember or Angular. You understand the concepts of services, stores, state management, build tools, routing, testing, serverless functions, and API design. You might have experience working with micro front-end applications and you are able to discuss trade-offs when slicing up a front-end app. You have created frameworks and libraries to abstract away complexity in your application to amplify your impact across the team.\n* ***You have some experience with micro-service/cloud and enterprise architecture patterns.***  You have an understanding of cloud architecture patterns, like pub-sub and BFF APIs, and are able to work with other engineers to discuss the trade-offs and benefits. While you might not be setting up these systems, you understand how they work, why they're used, and how they can impact front-end app performance, product requirements, and front-end code architecture.\n* ***You have a strong understanding of design:*** You understand that as a front-end engineer it is your job to help uphold the quality of the product. You're aware that loss of quality is often death by a thousand cuts and you care when elements are a few pixels off. You're able to understand why particular interactions should be used and when and you're able to recommend particular UI patterns to solve user problems. You'll have contributed to or have built design systems in the past.\n\n### Some of the technologies we use\n* Node\n* Typescript/JavaScript\n* React/Nextjs\n* styled-components\n* Vercel\n* Docker\n* NestJS\n* Redis\n\n### Nice To Haves\n* Proficiency with Typescript, React, Jest, and Next.js.\n* Experience with styled-components or similar CSS-in-JS libraries.\n* Understanding of containerization technologies such as Docker.\n* Experience using Vercel to deploy applications.\n* Experience with Node.js and/or serverless functions.\n\n### Compensation + Benefits\n* $50k-$100k USD (based on experience)\n* All employees receive equity (based on experience)\n* $500 work from home stipend\n* Unlimited vacation\n\n---\n\nNewfront is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. [Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion.](https://www.newfront.com/diversity-and-inclusion)\n\nNewfront provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected]. \n\nPlease mention the word **SUCCESSFULLY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjU=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $50,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n
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\nWho are we?\n\nCircleBlack, Inc. provides financial advisors with technology that aggregates data, integrates other financial applications seamlessly, manages data from multiple custodians and delivers actionable intelligence about client portfolios, helping advisors better manage clients' wealth while growing and deepening advisor-client relationships. CircleBlack provides a leading platform built for the digital age, with a web-based and mobile application that can be taken anywhere and accessed anytime. CircleBlack's solution leverages proprietary technology that helps sustain the Company's unique competitive advantages. CircleBlack believes in making wealth management better, for both the investor and the advisor. For more information about CircleBlack, visit https://www.circleblack.com\n\n\nPosition Summary: \n\nWe are looking for a passionate, forward thinker Full-Stack Senior Software Engineer to design, develop and maintain our software solutions. You will be working on building quality performing software that enables financial advisors to deliver real time data to their clients while adapting to industry trends. Ideal candidates should be passionate about solving complex problems while being able to design, develop and support industry-leading solutions using Node.JS in a fast paced environment.\n\n\nResponsibilities:\n\n\n* Design and develop NodeJS APIs, integrations, analytics engines, and infrastructure tools.\n\n* Implement modern React user interfaces.\n\n* Lead migration from one core application to another, while proposing and implementing modern performance optimizations and scaling strategies, such as React user interface.\n\n* Drive software change while ensuring  software deliverables comply with quality standards.\n\n* Collaborate effectively with stakeholders, designers and testers advising on impact, and performance to deliver the highest quality of software.\n\n* Perform code reviews, suggesting improvements and ensuring adherence to best practices.\n\n* Participate in an Agile development process.\n\n* Developing for a full stack of technologies including NodeJS, Nginx, React, Angular 1, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Kibana, PHP, Perl, Python and/or Ruby, Redis on AWS Linux servers.\n\n* Determine the root cause for complex software issues and develop practical solutions.\n\n* Serve as technical team lead and act as a mentor to allow for skill development through coaching, and training opportunities. \n\n\n\n\n\nCompetencies:\n\n\n* Ability to approach problems in a holistic manner, both tactical and strategic\n\n* Continuously aware of leveraging coaching and mentoring opportunities with junior software engineers \n\n* Creative, resourceful and outside- the- box thinking approach\n\n* Initiator; natural “fixer” mentality \n\n* Problem-solver and analytical\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEducation/Qualification:\n\n\n* 7+ years of application development experience; 4+ years experience using NodeJS. This is a must!\n\n* 2+ years of experience with MySQL database development\n\n* Experience building maintainable and testable code bases, including API and Database design in an agile environment and driving software change\n\n* Hands on experience integrating third-party SaaS providers using a variety of technologies including at least some the following: REST, SOAP, SAML, OAuth, OpenID, JWT, Salesforce\n\n* Experience working in a cloud environment, specifically AWS\n\n* Experience with non-relational databases such as Mongo, Redis, ElasticSearch\n\n* Ability to work independently, and remotely for the time being\n\n* BSc degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Engineer, Full Stack, Developer, Digital Nomad, React, Cloud, Python, Angular, API, Mobile, Junior, SaaS and Linux jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nSenior React/Node JS Developer\n\nThis position can be remote; US based candidates only.\n\n\nAbout You:\n\nLooking for a unique work environment and culture to thrive in? Do you love the sense of accomplishment after shaping a new product and pushing code daily? Are you a motivated individual who works well independently, as well as on a team? Are you excited about developing modern applications on serverless cloud architecture? Then we want you!\n\n\nAbout Us:\n\nDealer Inspire is a leader in the digital automotive industry located in Naperville, Illinois. Our company has grown from providing innovative website platform solutions to a full enterprise suite of products, including:\n\n\n* Online Shopper (Digital Retailing Solution)\n\n* Conversations (Chat Program)\n\n* Prizm (Reporting and Analytic platform)\n\n* FUEL (Digital Marketing platform)\n\n* METAL (Inventory Management System)\n\n\n\n\n\nWhile our team works extremely hard, we try to keep a fun and creative work environment. At Dealer Inspire, we like to look at current problems and 'rethink' solutions. We're flexible, we don't write requirements in stone, and things can change regularly. This means rethinking how solutions work best. Want to learn more about who we are? Check us out here!\n\n\nJob Description\n\nDealer Inspire is seeking experienced, rock star developers to join the METAL  team. Your duties will primarily revolve around writing code creating new features, modifying existing code to fix errors and bugs, and improving performance while adhering to system testing and validation procedures.\n\n\nTo be successful in this role, you will need a high degree of personal responsibility with respect to quality, attention to detail, and the willingness to contribute and collaborate as part of a team.\n\n\nAbout METAL:\n\nMETAL is DI's brand-new Inventory Management System (IMS) and is built with modern design plus lightning-quick controls to help our clients move metal faster than the competition - without any training needed. Designed mobile and tablet-first, METAL allows car dealers to quickly and easily manipulate their vehicle inventory, and have those changes appear on their Dealer Inspire website in real-time with API synchronization. From easy-to-implement pricing rules to the ability to upload hi-res inventory pictures, METAL offers a full-suite of features that modernize inventory management.\n\n\nSkills & Requirements\n\nWe're flexible with learning on the job and corresponding relevant work experience. However, for this position to be successful we need you to know the following, with a strong self-initiative to learn from others!\n\n\nEssential Responsibilities (including but not limited to):\n\n\n* Architecture and development of new features\n\n* Set and enforce code quality standards and test coverage\n\n* Leadership and mentoring of junior developers\n\n\n\n\nRequired:\n\n\n* 3+ years experience with front-end technologies such as React, Redux, and Webpack.\n\n* 3+ years experience working with NodeJS\n\n* 3+ years experience working with SQL or NoSQL databases; the ability to write efficient queries and benchmark/profile them\n\n* Mastery of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS/SASS/StyledComponents\n\n* Strong understanding of asynchronous programming\n\n* Experience with the Express framework in NodeJS\n\n* Experience with performance debugging and benchmarking\n\n* Experience with testing frameworks like karma, mocha, or jest\n\n* Experience with Git version control\n\n* Understanding of CI/CD\n\n* Strong attention to design detail (UI/UX)\n\n* Strong communication skills\n\n\n\n\nHighly Desired:\n\n\n* Experience working remotely\n\n* Familiar with Mobile-First, responsive web design\n\n* Familiar with AWS Cloud Architecture and Serverless (Fargate, StepFunctions, Lambda, SQS)\n\n* Familiar with GraphQL, DataLoader, and Apollo Client\n\n* Familiar with MongoDB, Atlas, and Stitch\n\n* Familiar with PostgreSQL\n\n* Familiar with ElasticSearch\n\n\n\n\nCompensation:\n\n$75,000+ per year based upon skill and previous experience. Motivated and talented individuals may advance quickly in our fast growing company.\n\n\nPerks:\n\n\n* Health and Dental Insurance Plans\n\n* 50% match of your 401 k contributions up to 6% of your gross income\n\n* PTO, sick days, and selected paid holidays\n\n* Work time/fun time quarterly team outings\n\n* Coaching and career building\n\n* Subsidized gym membership + in office yoga classes\n\n* Subsidized internet access for your home\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, React, Node, Senior, Developer, Digital Nomad, Serverless, Cloud, NoSQL, Git, API, Mobile, Junior and Marketing jobs that are similar:\n\n $67,500 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n