Senior Frontend Engineer

Group 1001 is a consumer-centric, technology-driven family of insurance companies on a mission to deliver outstanding value and operational performance by combining financial strength and stability with deep insurance expertise and a can-do culture. Group1001’s culture emphasizes the importance of collaboration, communication, core business focus, risk management, and striving for outcomes. This goal extends to how we hire and onboard our most valuable assets – our employees.

Company Overview:

Gainbridge, a part of the Group 1001 enterprise, is a self-managed, innovative, digital platform providing its clients with direct access to trusted financial products to smartly grow their savings over time. Gainbridge strives to offer products through its platform that are simple, intuitive, and backed by smart technology with no complexity or hidden fees. Gainbridge empowers clients to take control of the financial future with simple solutions that are accessible to everyone no matter their budget.

Why This Role Matters:

We are looking for an experienced Senior Frontend Engineer to help our growing Engineering team build world class solutions and deliver results for the business. You will work closely with Engineering, Product, and Design leadership to build exciting user experiences and to meet the high standards of leading financial institutions. You are comfortable with scaling and maturing critical frontend applications, and you look forward to helping define what Engineering means at Gainbridge. You enjoy working as part of a tight-knit team to build reliable technical solutions and rich customer experiences. You hold yourself and others accountable for routinely delivering mission critical outcomes. You are viewed as a trusted, intellectually honest partner within your team and across functional boundaries. You continually ask yourself, “What is accurate and what should be done about it?”

How You'll Contribute:

• Build world class frontend solutions through reactive apps and microservices, ensuring high-availability, scalability, performance, and security in production systems.
• Collaborate with product managers, business stakeholders, and other engineering teams to drive technical decisions, and deliver on business goals.
• Ownership of software development lifecycle, ensuring adherence to best practices in coding, testing, and deployment.
• Provide mentorship to other engineers, helping to elevate the overall technical capabilities of the team, fostering a culture of collaboration, and growth.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and effort estimation, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality features.
• Ensure the development of secure, well-tested solutions with an emphasis on reducing technical debt.

What We're Looking For:

• 6+ years of proven experience in frontend development, with a demonstrable track record of delivery of rich frontend web applications with design workflows and product guidance.
• Proven ability to guide teams and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment while maintaining operational excellence and driving best practices.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong understanding of DOM and CSS fundamentals across browsers
• Keen eye for style and detail
• Experience using animation to improve the usability of an interface
• Interested in emergent frontend technologies and trends
• Working knowledge in the following technologies: ○ Object-oriented languages such Javascript or Typescript ○ Frontend development frameworks such as React, Vue, or Angular ○ CSS libraries like Bootstrap, Material, or Tailwind
• Experience working directly with designers with open and collaborative communication
• Experience reviewing and implementing Figma designs as well as dynamic interactions
• Experience using and implementing design systems
• Experience in maintaining and improving application performance through APM and observability tools
• Experience with cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud
• Experience with cloud technologies (AWS, GCP), Kubernetes, and DevOps tools for observability (Grafana, OpenTelemetry)

Nice-to-Haves:

• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, Helm, or ArgoCD
• Experience working in leading financial services organizations and startups
• Working experience in supporting digital accessibility

Compensation:  

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $180,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $200,000/year in our highest geographic market.  Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits Highlights:  

Employees who meet benefit eligibility guidelines and work 30 hours or more weekly, have the ability to enroll in Group 1001’s benefits package. Employees (and their families) are eligible to participate in the Company’s comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plan options.  Employees are also eligible for Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance, Short and Long-Term Disability. All employees (regardless of hours worked) have immediate access to the Company’s Employee Assistance Program and wellness programs—no enrollment is required.  Employees may also participate in the Company’s 401K plan, with matching contributions by the Company.

Group 1001, and its affiliated companies, is strongly committed to providing a supportive work environment where employee differences are valued. Diversity is an essential ingredient in making Group 1001 a welcoming place to work and is fundamental in building a high-performance team. Diversity embodies all the differences that make us unique individuals.  All employees share the responsibility for maintaining a workplace culture of dignity, respect, understanding and appreciation of individual and group differences.