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Who we are

Albert is a new type of financial service that uses powerful technology to automate your finances, with a team of human experts to guide you. Albert saves and invests automatically for you, helps you avoid overdrafts, finds savings you’re missing, identifies bills you’re overpaying, and much more. Text Albert a financial question, and our geniuses won’t just offer guidance — they’ll help you take action.

We're an LA-based startup with a proven business model, backed by top-tier institutional investors and with nearly 6 million users who have trusted Albert to help them achieve their financial goals. We're on a mission to democratize money management through our simple, beautifully designed product, and we're looking for thoughtful, talented people to join us on our journey.

About the role

Albert is launching a web application to bring a richer desktop experience to its mobile users. We're looking for an engineer highly experienced in web development and its intricacies to spearhead efforts to help build the ultimate web experience for our users. The ideal candidate would have experience building and maintaining a production web application with scale, including a working knowledge of industry standards in web security, optimization, browser compatibility, and QA testing. In addition to development this individual will be responsible for owning and maturing the infrastructure, deployment pipeline, and testing of our web application as we expand on its feature set.

Things you're good at

• Shipping: Delivering a polished, high quality web app from development to deployment.
• Architecture: Getting it done is important. Getting it done in a way that will scale is equally important.
• Security: You know what it takes to secure a production grade web app in the FinTech space
• Optimization: You're an expert in bundling technologies like Webpack and are familiar with nest practices concerning optimization of served web apps.
• Collaboration: We bring the best out of each other. We're looking for people who will bring the best out of all of us.
• Design: We care about great product and UX, you'll have a nose for the details that make for an outstanding web experience

Responsibilities

• Deep involvement in the front-end stack (Typescript/HTML/CSS(Styled Components) /React/Node)
• Help us establish scalable architecture for the Albert web app
• Speed is a feature: build and deploy software that delights because it’s fast
• Improve our tech stack, tools, and processes to deliver a product with the highest quality standards
• Web security, optimization, browser compatibility/testing, and scalability best practices for the web app
• Participate in and lead discussions on web application best-practices, and bring up potential setbacks
• Write clean, well-tested modular code

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience writing production front end software
• Bachelor's Degree; Graduate Degree a plus
• Expert in Javascript, HTML, CSS, React, Redux, Typescript
• Experience with modern web architecture and methodologies
• Experience making architectural decisions for the web
• Experience with browser testing tools like Cypress or Selenium
• Experience conducting A/B testing and/or experience with feature flagging
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Bonus: Familiarity with bundle optimization and code splitting
• Bonus: Familiarity with NodeJS and Python/Django

Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• Health, vision and dental insurance
• Daily meals provided
• Monthly wellness stipend
• 401k match

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