Staff Engineer - Front End

We’re changing the way people connect to social care. 

At Findhelp, we’ve built a comprehensive platform of products and services that make it easy for you to connect people to resources, follow them on their journey, and track your impact in a fast and reliable way. Our industry-leading social care network includes more than half a million local, state, and national programs that serve every ZIP Code in the country, from rural areas to major metropolitan centers. 

Findhelp is headquartered in Austin, Texas and has been enabling healthcare, government, education, and other organizations to connect people with the social care resources that serve them, with privacy and security, since 2010.

As a mission driven organization, we are focused on creating a positive impact by connecting people in need to the programs that serve them with dignity and ease. Powered by our proprietary technology that enables people to find the resources available in their area, we have helped millions of Seekers find food, health, housing and employment programs.

The R&D Department is made up of different disciplines including software and database engineers, quality, technical implementation.  R&D designs and develops requested product features, fixes bugs within our platform, provides technical analysis and estimation, ensures successful integration installations, manages and monitors the health of our platform, and develops automation and tooling for efficient and reliable software development processes. R&D works cross-functionally with many other departments in the organization as a team to fulfill Findhelp’s mission of connecting all people in need and the programs that serve them with dignity and ease.

As a Software Engineer, focusing on front end development, you will play a pivotal role in expanding our platform that seamlessly integrates our nationwide system of social-services. Serving on a cross-functional development team as well as focused front end projects, you'll collaborate closely with various teams, including Design and Product,  to ensure the delivery of top-tier products for our users. You will lead engineering efforts through a combination of a positive attitude, exemplary work ethic, and significant contributions to both the technical and cultural facets of engineering, all underpinned by a deep understanding of user impact.

• Work within a team and across teams to accomplish our mission of helping others
• Consistently write quality code with the end user in mind
• Architect for robustness, extensibility, scale, sustainability, and security
• Provide quality feedback in code reviews and willing to pair on coding tasksS
• omeone who works to understand the user’s story to design intuitive experiences
• Own work from inception to delivery, and beyond
• Cares about pixel perfect presentation and has worked with designers to translate their ideas into code
• Mentor other engineers and foster their growth

• 5+ years of UI focused development working with React, Remix or other front end frameworks
• A strong understanding of javascript when not used in a framework
• Experience coding for and/or maintaining a component library 
• A strong testing ethic and an understanding of quality tests and front end testing platforms.
• Experience migrating UIs from other frameworks or templating systems
• Enthusiastic, highly motivated with an ability to learn quickly
• Experience implementing and maintaining accessibility compliance (WCAG, a11y principles)
• Has ideas about optimizing design to code time with modern assistive coding technologies

We value being together 

We believe being together enables stronger relationships, collaboration, and culture.

This position is in office and candidates must be located in Austin, Texas, Madison, Wisconsin, or Denver, Colorado

Perks at Findhelp 

•401k & equity grants

•Free food and onsite gym at our Austin HQ 

•Paid parental leave

•Competitive PTO & 10 paid holidays

•Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance with 100% company-paid coverage for employee only coverage

•Dog-friendly office in Austin HQ

•24/7 access to telemedicine and counseling

•Book Purchasing Program

We’re building a diverse, inclusive team

You’re welcome here. We want everyone to be able to easily connect to the help they need, and we want our teams to reflect and represent our communities. It is our policy to recruit, hire, train, and promote individuals, as well as administer any and all Company policies, without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin or ancestry, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, creed, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, or any other protected class, in accordance with applicable laws. Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.

Here are some of the ways we support our staff:

•Culture Committee 

•Leadership Development Training

•Paid Volunteering Time