Senior Engineer - Frontend

About Albert Invent
Albert‘s mission is to Digitalize the World of Chemistry, using data and machine learning to drastically accelerate the invention of new materials. We are looking for individuals to join our strategy team to shape and execute our value creation strategy. If you're passionate about cutting-edge technology and love working in a fast-paced startup culture, we want you on our team!

Why Albert

• We have a huge impact. Albert is a small team with a big reach. Our Platform facilitates the invention of materials for tens of thousands of companies and hundreds of thousands of applications - from coatings used on rockets to adhesives used in electric vehicles to 3D printed medical devices.
• We love distributed teams. Albert’s home-base is in the Bay Area, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. In fact, over 50% of our employees work outside of California! An international remote culture is in our DNA.
• We care about you. Albert works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We work hard and we play hard.
• We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.
• We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Albert team. If you think you might be a fit please apply!

What you will do

• Partner closely with Product Owner and tech lead to discover, design, develop and deploy great financial tools and products that provide meaningful value to our customers.
• Develop, Unit tests and deploy components.
• Integrate UI application with rest APIs.
• Primary technologies focused on modern front-end - Advanced JS ES6, React, Redux, Angular Js and other modern JS frameworks, HTML/CSS.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in development, testing, and production environments.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends to continuously improve our tech stack.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of learning and growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of practical experience and proven success with the design, development and operation of complex web applications.
• Strong experience with modern and vanilla JavaScript and Typescript techniques including JSX and ES6/ES7 features
• Familiarity connecting to microservices, REST APIs, graph APIs, and other database-driven web applications
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
• Asynchronous programming including Promises, async/await, and ES7 generators
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Broad technical knowledge across a majority, with deeper knowledge in, the following: Web application development, Software engineering and/or testing; Data analysis.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.