Float: Senior Front End Performance Engineer
United Kingdom 1 month ago
Job Description
Headquarters:Remote
URL:http://float.com
Who We Are
Float is the world’s leading software for teams to plan their time. Launched in 2012, we’ve grown every year since, and remain proudly independent, self-funded and profitable.
As a certified B Corporation, we’re committed to making a positive contribution to our team, customers, the environment, and the remote community. We’re a team of 55 working 100% remotely who believe in living our Best Work Life.
You’ll partner with team members globally, including Australia, Mexico, Italy, Nigeria, Canada, and the USA. Review our data security guidelines about where we hirehere.
Hear what our team has to say by browsingour blog, or reading ourGlassdoor reviews. Check out what our customers think of Floatfrom our G2 reviews.
We’re on a scale up journey, and we’re seeking people who thrive in this stage, given the autonomy, and the opportunity, to do the best work of their career.
Why We’re Hiring For This Role
At Float, we’re dedicated to delivering a fast, seamless experience for our customers. As our average customer size continues to grow, so does the complexity of their needs. This role is critical to ensuring that Float remains a best-in-class resource management tool, providing a smooth and intuitive experience for every user.
The Senior Front End Performance Engineer role is essential in helping us tackle one of our biggest challenges: optimizing the performance of our web application for larger teams, particularly those within our target audience of 11-1000 members.
Our customers rely on the Float schedule as their“home view,” and its performance directly impacts how quickly and easily they can plan, adjust, and succeed. One of your main responsibilities will be optimizing the performance of this feature.
Beyond optimizing our current product, this role is also about shaping the future. You’ll ensure new features are scalable, performance regressions are avoided, and our product evolves to meet the demands of a growing customer base. Your specialized expertise in front-end performance will directly support Float’s growth goals, both in expanding our customer numbers and increasingthe team sizes we serve.
You will also help foster a“culture of performance” in the larger Interfaces team by advocating for best practices and tooling, reviewing new code, implementing performance monitoring, and by sharing knowledge with other team members.
This is a unique opportunity to not only make an impact within our team but to influence the experience of thousands of professional services organizations who rely on Float every day.
This role reports to Haakon, our Team Lead (Interfaces). You can meet them below, where they explain the important role you will play within our Interfaces team.Watch this video.
You’ll be working asynchronously with a bright, dedicated team from across the globe, with a strong focus on taking complex problems and creating solutions that feel simple and intuitive for our customers.
What You’ll Be Responsible For
Early on, you’ll jump right into:
Upgrading to React 19:Upgrading us from React 18 to 19, as well as optimizing for the new React Compiler
Schedule Optimization:Working on the performance of the Schedule, as well as working on existing performance issues that have been flagged
Performance Test Suite:Becoming familiar with and work on stabilizing our internal performance test suite
Once you are a bit more settled, we expect that you will jump into the following projects:
Front-end performance: You will be contributing to a best-in-class front-end performance of our product
Tooling and Processes: Defining performance-oriented tooling and implementing best-practices for the larger Interfaces Team, as well as sharing your knowledge.
Roadmap: Own and define the roadmap for performances initiatives and improvements
Ownership:Of the performance and front-end for web app functions like the Schedule, Live Updates, and Search
What You’ll Need To Be Successful
We want you to love your work and believe that these skills will allow you to succeed in the role. Applying these skills requires:
Technical skills
Expertise in Javascript/Typescript and React
Experience optimizing React applications
Ownership or strong contribution to front-end performance on products with large user bases and high data volumes
Essential skills
Customer-oriented mindset
Investigative mindset
High levels of autonomy
As a fully remote team, we’re looking for someone comfortable with asynchronous communication as the default, which means you have previous remote experience and are comfortable using tools like Slack, Loom, and Linear to communicate as needed. Don’t worry—you will have significant deep work time since we havevery few meetings.
Pay for this role is US $167,471 (Level 3). Here’s ablog postwith more information on how we determine our salaries.
We’re a globalasync remote companywith a diverse team of people from all over the world who share a common belief in living ourbest work life. We believe deeply in the idea of transparency and share ourFloat Handbookpublicly so potential new team members can see first hand ourperks& benefitsas well as ourways of working. If you feel like you can thrive at Float to do your best work, we would love to hear from you.
Hiring Process For This Role
You’ll find a lot of useful information about our interview process and what it’s like to join our global team on theFloat careers page. The hiring process for this role looks like this:
Initial First Meet (20 min):You'll meet with Julia, Talent Manager, to discuss your interest in the role and review your questions about working at Float.
Technical Assignment (4 hours):You’ll complete a take-home technical assignment that will assess your ability to identify and communicate performance issues on a real application and suggest solutions. You will be paid an honorarium after completion of your take-home assignment, and will receive feedback on your assignment regardless of the outcome.
Technical Interview (45 min): You’ll meet with Gevorg& Fabio, to discuss your technical capability, front-end engineering experience, as well as your approach to the take-home assignment.
Manager Interview (45 min):You’ll meet with Haakon, Team Lead (Interfaces), to dive deeper into your skills, experience, and goals for the role.
Founder Interview (30 min): You’ll meet with Lars, Float’s CEO, to get to know you and see if you have potential to be a great addition to the team.
Note: Industry research shows that women and those in traditionally underrepresented groups generally don’t apply to jobs unless they check all the boxes for the role. If you feel strongly that you have what it takes for this role but don’t check 100% of the boxes—that’s okay—we encourage you to apply anyway and highlight what you can bring to the table.
To apply:https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/float-senior-front-end-performance-engineer
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