Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer, FinTech

Overview

Kick is an applied AI company building the first self-driving bookkeeping experience. We’re combining machine and tax code to automate the business finances for millions of entrepreneurs. To date, Kick has raised $7.5M from OpenAI, General Catalyst and 50+ investors from Stripe, Notion and Figma.

Read more:
https://kickfinance.notion.site/Kick-Overview-9d45c3131f624c13bfa0207c3489aa17?pvs=4

Ideal Candidate

• We’re looking for a Front-end Engineer with exceptional taste to own the UI within the product, our marketing website & landing pages as we scale.

You will

• Work closely with Design, Engineering and Growth teams.

• Build performant beautiful, responsive websites and landing pages.

• Help build and maintain Kick's design system.

• Implement creative animations and interactions in code.

• Develop special projects to elevate Kick’s brand.

We're looking for someone who

• Has at least 5 years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on front-end development.

• Strong familiarity with React and Typescript.

• Has a sense for great user experience and feel when something is off.

• Pays attention to detail and aims to provide our users with a delightful experience.

• Has strong written and verbal communication skills and enjoys solving user problems.

• Has a collaborative mindset and is open to feedback and iterative processes.

• A portfolio showcasing a range of technical skills, a creative use of code, and prototyping skills in the form of webflow, microsites, webgl or anything else.

• Collaborate through excellent written communication, B2+ English level for verbal communication

Bonus if you

• Enjoy working in startups and have been part of a team during its growth stage

• Have experience of building their own startup or working as a founding engineer

• Have experience with modern frontend libraries (e.g. TanStack Query v4)

• Experience with SMB, SaaS or fintech

Tech

• TypeScript, React, NestJS (If you're familiar with different stack don't hesitate to apply)

• Postgres, Redis

• AWS, Terraform

• OpenAI, Azure AI

• TypeORM, React Query

• Github, Slack, Linear, Figma

We offer

• Top of market salary and equity based on experience

• Paid co-working space; best-in-class equipment

• 20 days/year of paid vacation; annual meet ups in Palo Alto