Lead Frontend Engineer

| Greater Denver Area
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Havenly is interior design for real people. We're a funded tech startup in Denver, and we believe everyone deserves a beautiful home they love. As the Lead Frontend Engineer at Havenly, you will lead a team of engineers to ship delightful experiences to every customer and potential customer to visit Havenly’s site. We expect that you will be both mentor and team leader for your engineers. This means that you will help with technical decisions, coach the engineers reporting to you, and partner with stakeholders cross-functionally - and you will definitely be writing code. On a typical day, you can expect to to coach engineers to level up their technical and soft skills, to plan and scope future projects, and to help fix a small bug or guide a new feature development.

If you're an experienced engineering lead with extensive knowledge about Frontend Web development, who also has a passion for building delightful user experiences, join us!

This position will report into Havenly's CTO, work remotely from SF with frequent travel to Denver, CO.

What you'll do:

  • Develop delightful user-facing features
  • Build modular layouts, reusable code and libraries for future use
  • Create and maintain automated tests to ensure quality and save time and money
  • Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
  • Help set technical standards and best practices for the front end team
  • Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
  • Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

When you join us you'll bring:

  • Experience - You've been working in a fast paced consumer company, leading a team of high performing engineers. 
  • Expert in web markup, including HTML5, CSS3 and javascript
  • Expert understanding of client-side scripting and javascript frameworks such as jquery and React
  • Proficient understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS (we like SASS)
  • Proficient understanding of javascript pre-processing and packaging frameworks such as babel and webpack
  • Good understanding of PHP and some full stack experience. While you’ll be spending most of your time in the V of MVC, we’ll occasionally need help further back in the stack
  • Good understanding of SEO principles including web analytics and ensuring that application will adhere to them
  • Excellent communication skills and experience in collaborative environments
  • The desire to be continually learning about emerging technologies/industry trends

This role is perfect for you if:

  • You enjoy the challenge of leading complex technical projects and delivering iterative solutions that provide value each step of the way.
  • You enjoy working closely with partners across the business and within your team to solve problems.
  • You’re a great communicator who knows how to organize a team around discovering and delivering solutions, facilitate meaningful discussions, and build consensus.
  • You love mentoring engineers and helping them progress on their career path.

What we offer:

  • A challenging opportunity, and a great team to work beside
  • An environment where you can move fast, work hard, and see results
  • An opportunity to get in early on a successful startup, and make a BIG impact
  • Salary, benefits, and design services - Have a room that needs some love? We got you!

At Havenly we hire people who exhibit gumption, act like owners, outperform, and are always playful.

If this sounds like a great fit for you, and a challenge you're ready to run with, we want to hear from you!


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We're located in the vibrant Cherry Creek north neighborhood in Denver.

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