Front End Engineer

We believe everyone should have access to a better financial future. Our team builds simple, transparent and inclusive products that transform borrowing behavior and improve financial outcomes. With our easy to use, all-in-one platform, we empower our 5 million members to achieve their goals, one paycheck at a time. Backed by First Round Capital and JP Morgan.

Our office inspires our talented team members to build life-changing products for our customers and have fun while doing it. We created a home away from home by designing a kitchen, living room, bar, and office space all-in-one.

Perpay is located in Center City, Philadelphia in a new, open floor plan, river-front office. A coffee bar sits at the heart of the office with espresso, drip coffee, cold brew and tea options. The rest of the office has comfortable, open seating including: sitting desks, standing desks, couches, lounge chairs, and kitchen booths & tables. We provide catered lunches and weekly groceries so team members can make breakfast or lunch, or just snack -we don’t judge. Join us as we transform the credit landscape!

How far we have come and where we are going:

• 2017: Launched Perpay’s buy now, pay later marketplace of 1,000+ top brands
• 2020: Launched Perpay+, allowing members to build credit by shopping with an average credit score increase of 35+ points
• 2022: Building our next product, establishing Perpay as a household name for consumer finance

About the Role:

We are looking for frontend engineers who are passionate about creating the best experience possible for our customers. The ideal frontend engineer should have built at least one sizable production application using React/Redux and ES6 JavaScript within the past year. We value an excitement to analyze data, solve tough problems, and deliver solutions in a fast-paced startup environment.

Responsibilities:

• You will be working with our engineering team to design and deliver new features for our web and mobile apps
• Collaborate with our teams and designers to rapidly improve our user-facing applications
• Analyze data to improve every aspect of our users’ experiences

What We Look For:

• BS in Computer Science or related field
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript, including the latest ECMAScript standards.
• An understanding of REST API-Driven Microservices & Micro Frontends
• Strong knowledge of how the web works and how to make it efficient (HTTP, caching, page rendering, mobile optimization, etc).
• Significant experience with React and the React ecosystem as well as unidirectional data flow patterns, preferably Redux.
• People who are passionate about what they do and about improving the lives of others
•  3-5 years software development experience, delivering commercial products to market
• Experience with optimizing web applications for performance and accessibility
• History of effectively collaborating with creative, technical, and business teams
• A passion for UX/UI design or familiarity with UX/UI principles
• An understanding of MVC web application frameworks, preferably Django
• The ability to pick up new technologies quickly, with software engineering fundamentals being valued more than familiarity with specific tools or languages
• A strong focus on writing and deploying clear, scalable, readable, and testable code
• A belief in Agile methodologies, while still knowing how and when to adapt them to fit a team and projects
• A firm understanding of data design and both relational database and NoSQL databases
• Bonus points for experience with AWS and Docker

Hey, we know not everybody checks all the boxes, so if you’re interested, please apply because you could be just what we’re looking for!