Senior Software Engineer - Front End

At Emburse our mission is to help make our users’ lives -- and their businesses – better. We are dramatically transforming how organizations manage corporate expenses and invoices. We humanize work by automating manual tasks and saving users’ time, so they can focus on what matters most -- their family, community, or more rewarding work. We help CFO's give their employees a simple and amazing experience while ensuring compliance and reducing costs. Our solutions are tailored for companies from start-ups to enterprises. We have more than 14,000 clients and 4.5 million users globally.

Emburse has offices across North America, including Los Angeles, Montreal, Portland (ME), San Diego, San Francisco, and Toronto, as well as locations in the UK, Germany, Spain and Australia.

Our core values - Sincerity, Empathy, Empowerment, Individuality and Teamwork - reflect who we are as a company. They are central to the decisions we make and the interactions we have with our teams, customers, and partners. As a people focused company, we are seeking candidates who align with our values.

Emburse is a proud recipient of a 2020 Tech Cares Award from TrustRadius. This award celebrates companies that have gone above and beyond to provide their communities, clients, and front line workers with support during the COVID-19 pandemic. We are a people-first company, and this award is a testament to our mission to humanize work.

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We are looking for an experienced, front-end Senior Software Engineer to join our growing team at Certify, a business unit of Emburse. In this position you will play a key role in integrating modern front end processes into our web applications. As a member of our focused full stack engineering team, you will be involved in the full product lifecycle, serving as a front end project lead, and contributing to software design decisions. We will consider a remote option. What you'll do Develop sophisticated software without supervision Fix complex bugs and demonstrate advanced debugging skills Take personal responsibility for quality and maintainability of the product and actively identify areas of improvement Perform advanced refactoring Influence team decisions Onboard and mentor less experienced team members Make complex contributions to technical documentation/knowledge base and team/engineering presentations Produce quality documentation and ensure practices are maintained Identify risks which could impact team performance Write technical stories that will improve product quality/reduce technical debt Provide updates on estimations Identify cross-team dependencies in projects and raise them up appropriately to be addressed Challenge assumptions from product owners and propose viable alternative Translate business requirements into articulate, and well-formed user stories Understand advanced system-wide workflows Advanced debugging for system-wide problems Triage and solve production issues Learn and apply secure software development practices, review code for vulnerabilities and raise awareness of secure programming practices What we're looking for Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent years’ experience 6+ years of software development experience, preferably with Project Lead experience. Experience with modern front-end JavaScript framworks (e.g. React, Vue, Angular, or similar) Knowledge of database concepts such as caching and relational tables Good understanding of the agile application development lifecycle (e.g. continuous integration, automated testing, scrum) Experience working with source control (e.g. git, SVN, Mercurial) Understanding of secure application programming practices Strong understanding of and practical experience implementing common design patterns Ability to solve business problems through creative and forward-looking solutions Experience working in a scrum and DevOps environment Ability to write clear, concise documentation Experience building production applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Vue.js or React Experience integrating modern front-end processes into an existing multi-page application Experience with CSS methodologies such as Utility-first CSS, BEM, and OOCSS Experience with large-scale or distributed web applications Experience designing and building JSON or REST services and APIs Experience with Test Driven Development and functional testing. Emburse provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Emburse complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location where the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.