Engineering Leader Front-End at Joy (S16)
$150K - $200K  •  0.01% - 0.60%
The platform for all your life events.
San Francisco / Remote
Full-time
6+ years
About Joy

At Joy, we believe software can help organize and bring people together in the real world. Digital tools can (and should) bring people closer together—online and offline. Joy fosters real relationships and real communication, helping people organize, share, and remember their important life events.

We are building a virtual event planner that aims to help people plan events both large and small. From a concert or a school reunion to a destination wedding on a tropical island. We are starting with one of the biggest life events - the wedding.

Why join us? Launched 2 years back and now already 4% of American weddings signed up for Joy.

Joy has gone viral. Every Joy wedding produces 7 new weddings within an year.

Funded by YC. Founders ex-Microsoft and Adobe who have built both big products and organizations.

Joy gets millions of users a year.

Design and Engineering is the core of the company. Almost 80% of the company works on the product.

Within this short time Joy is already used in more than 120 countries.

About the role
Skills: JavaScript, React, TypeScript, Git

Joy is growing, and we’re looking for talented engineering leaders.

In this role, you will build and lead a team of front-end engineers. Your team will be entrusted to implement features of all sizes. You will partner closely with our product and customer experience teams to understand our customers, then collaborate with other front-end, back-end, and mobile engineers to build world-class user experiences. You will guide your team members and mentor them and you use your collective extensive knowledge of front-end technologies to design and build Joy's next generation user experience, used and loved by millions. You'll make sure that the team engineers for correctness, maintainability, and performance while delighting couples and guests by making their lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. You will hire and grow engineers on your team to be independent and proficient at their jobs. Your team will embody teamwork and a shared purpose, and make Joy a great place to work.

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical knowledge
  • 3+ years of leading an engineering team
  • Proven track record of hiring, developing, and retaining engineering talent.
  • High degree of familiarity with JavaScript, TypeScript, React JS, GraphQL
  • Set and hold a high bar for quality.
  • Great at debugging complex applications
  • Previous startup experience preferred
Technology

ENGINEERING TEAM AND PROCESSES Our engineering team operates on two week cycles. Each cycle begins with a meeting to discuss time estimates for features. We have demo and drinks each week on Friday where everyone showcases the work they have completed.

Engineers work with Designers and if the feature involves multiple Engineers then a PM is involved to handle the coordination too.

We use standard PR model with Git (BitBucket). JIRA is used for bug tracking.

All engineers are empowered to take their features to production, which we do multiple times a week.

TECHNICAL CHALLENGES We are buidling a product which is used in 120 countries by millions of users. Scale and performance is something which we need to very deeply care.

We are also using machine learning that needs to learn a lot of things related to weddings around the world.

PROJECTS YOU MIGHT WORK ON Messaging and Communication hub which allows hundreds of thousands of users to communicate with each other on daily basis

iOS and Android apps which will help plan a wedding from engagement to honeymoon

Guest management, invitation and RSVP systems. Think of this as replacing excel sheet, physical invitation cards and things like survey monkey or google forms.

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