Senior Front End Engineer

About Highnote 

Founded in 2020 by a team of leaders from Braintree, PayPal, and Lending Club, Highnote is an embedded finance company that sets the standard in modern card platform management. As an all-in-one card issuer processor and program management platform, we provide digital-first organizations with the flexibility to seamlessly issue and process payment cards, embed virtual and physical card payments, and integrate ledger and wallet functionalities—empowering businesses to drive growth and profitability.

We’ve raised $145M+ and have grown our team to 125+ employees. Headquartered in San Francisco, we’ve managed to build one of the most advanced payments teams in the industry, with team members in 25+ US states. 

Operating through our core values of customer obsession, executional excellence, intentional inclusion, we’re helping businesses grow for the future by creating the payment products demanded by tomorrow, with the ability to solve for use cases that don’t exist yet.

We are fast-moving, hands-on, and strongly believe everyone deserves a seat at the table. We believe we’re unlocking incredible opportunities that can change the future of payments, as long as we have the right people to make it happen.

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Front End Engineer to join our Developer Experience team. In this role, you will help design and scale our web properties powered by our GraphQL API. The Developer Experience team owns our customer/internal dashboards and tooling, developer documentation, and more! While this position is primarily front end, you will also be contributing to API design decisions, helping to develop API features with UI/UX in mind.

Our stack is GraphQL, TypeScript, React, Next.js, and Tailwind. We deploy serverless functions and believe in leveraging edge computing to deliver modern experiences. We work closely with product and design teams to craft the experiences of our platform using our API.

You:

• Know the JavaScript and TypeScript ecosystems and tooling
• Know how to build a React application and understand how the browser works
• Understand data-fetching and caching patterns in front end applications 
• Know how forms work
• Have an opinion on CSS and how it should be done in modern applications (it doesn’t matter what the opinion is, just that you have one!)
• Have experience with front end observability and monitoring
• Believe in owning the entire application lifecycle – design, development, and deployment
• Are a full contributor – you not only want to build but want to have a say in how things are built
• Are customer-centric – whether the experience is for developers or non-technical users, their experience drives you
• You see the future powered by a “connected” ecosystem of integrations and have ideas on how you want to be part of that

We:

• Operate collaboratively, but autonomously
• Invest in tooling and automation – we do CI/CD, we codegen as much as we can, and that lets us focus on the task at hand
• Believe in experience-driven decisions – we work closely with Product and Design. We talk to customers and engage our teammates in feedback sessions.
• Discuss API design…a lot
• Love prototyping and exploring
• Don’t shy away from new things – we have a lot of fun ideas
• Are ambitious

Bonus points if you:

• Have built serverless applications (Lambda, Cloudflare Workers, Google Cloud Functions)
• Have published/maintained JS libraries
• Know how iframes work

Why Highnote?

• We’re a startup that allows for our employees to truly build from the ground up and impact every layer of our organization. 
• We’re a team of payments obsessed individuals. While some of us come from the fintech world, some of us don’t. We value the varied backgrounds and the diverse perspectives of our employees. 
• We’re small on hierarchy and big on growth. We’re a flat organization that allows everyone to have direct exposure to our leadership team. We are looking for builders who thrive in ambiguity. 
• We’re backed by Oak HC/FT, Costanoa Ventures, Adams Street Partners, Westcap, and Pinegrove Venture Partners. Angel Investors include Bill Ready (CEO at Pinterest) and Renaud Laplanche (Co-Founder & CEO of Upgrade).

Highnote benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off 
• 100% healthcare coverage + 75% coverage for dependents
• 401k program
• Paid Parental Leave: Up to 16 weeks paid leave for the birth parent, and up to 6 weeks paid leave for the non-birth parent
• Equity in Highnote
• Stipend to build out your home office; internet and phone reimbursement
• At Highnote we have built a total rewards philosophy that includes fair, equitable, geo-based compensation that is performance and potential based. Our compensation packages are competitive based on robust market research and are a combination of a cash salary, equity, and benefits. In compliance with the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the annual salary range for applicants is $170,000-$230,000. 

Please note that positions located in San Francisco are hybrid and include core working days of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday in office.  We provide flexible work options based on distance from our downtown SF office. Highnote believes in the power of face-to-face, personal connection. As a result, we prioritize in-person candidates. 

Highnote is a diverse and inclusive company committed to growing a diverse and inclusive team. We invite people from all backgrounds and identities to apply. We do not discriminate based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by US federal state or local laws, or the laws of the country or jurisdiction where you work. Additionally, we encourage everyone to share which pronouns you wish for us to use when addressing you (i.e.: she/her, he/him, they/them, etc).