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Forage

Staff Frontend Engineer

Forage, Los Angeles, California, United States, 90079


About Us

Forage is a mission-driven payments company that is helping merchants accept government benefits through a single, unified API. Today, over 42 million Americans receive government assistance (ex: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) to buy groceries.

Starting with enabling EBT SNAP online, Forage builds the financial infrastructure empowering merchants of all shapes and sizes to serve these shoppers online.

We function as a hybrid organization, actively hiring across North America. While we embrace remote work, we prioritize candidates who can contribute from our San Francisco office.

What We Are Looking For

We seek an experienced Frontend Engineer with a strong background in building comprehensive user solutions and frontend infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience, particularly in Typescript, and will have demonstrated leadership capabilities, including mentoring and driving multi-team projects to completion.

You will lead large-scale projects in dashboard or SDK (iOS, Android) development, enhancing our cross-browser testing, funnel optimization, and SDK distribution processes. Your role will involve making frontend developers at Forage more effective by improving infrastructure and tooling, balancing business priorities with user experience and technical sustainability, and influencing our technical vision.

Collaboration is key; you will work closely with product managers to optimize our Shopify app for better funnel conversion and with the Sales team to launch features based on new contracts or user requirements. Additionally, you will mentor your teammates, fostering best practices in frontend development.

Qualifications5+ years of frontend engineering experience building end-to-end user solutionsExperience working in frontend infrastructure, such as package management, bundle size optimization and other scalable work that empowers other frontend engineersExperience as a technical leader for your team, mentoring others, influencing the roadmap and driving large multi-team projects to completionExperience in TypescriptKey ResponsibilitiesLead large multi-engineer projects in either dashboard or SDK (iOS, Android) development. Some project examples include building a single source of truth for funnel, improving our cross-browser testing and working on a better SDK distribution processMake frontend developers at Forage more effective through better infrastructure and toolingBalance business priorities, user experience, and technical sustainability in trade-offs when building Forage’s dashboard and SDK experiencesInfluence frontend development at Forage by sharing technical vision and providing guidanceWork closely with product managers to optimize the Shopify app to better increase funnel conversionWork closely with the Sales team to launch new features based on newly signed contracts or user requirementsMentor teammates and others around frontend best practicesOur Offer

As of 07/24/2024, if we hire you in San Francisco, your base salary would fall within the bands below. Please keep in mind that the equity and variable portion of your offer is

not

included in these numbers and represents a significant part of your total compensation.

Competitive Compensation:

Staff Frontend Engineer: $140k-$160k DOE

Meaningful work that makes a positive impact on our society.100% coverage of medical, dental and vision premiums for you and all dependents.Flexible Time offA remote-first work environment with opportunity for onsite meetings.A fun and caring environment that prioritizes transparency, growth, and ownership.A talented, diverse, high-achieving, and humble team with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints.

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