Senior Front End Developer
Help shape the future of transportation for cities, colleges and companies by working for the nation's leading bike share company. Zagster is a fast-growing startup backed by leading transportation investors and based in Cambridge, MA with a mission to make bicycling the world's most loved form of transportation.
We’ve recently raised $10 million in Series B funding and operate more than 200 bike sharing programs throughout North America, with clients such as Princeton University, Rochester New York, Fort Collins Colorado, General Motors and Equity Properties.
Overview:
We're looking for an experienced software developer to build tools that will help us manage our rider data, partner interactions, and activity on our fleet of thousands of bicycles.
Responsibilities
- You'll be initially working on web-based tools, building new functionality in a React framework making server API calls.
- You'll be expected to have or develop some experience with Node and MongoDB in order to understand and assist with server-side work as necessary to enable front-end functionality.
- There will be some maintenance and work toward replacing MeteorJS-based front-end apps as we phase those out in favor of new things you'll build.
- You may be asked to leverage your growing experience in React to help out with a React-Native mobile app.
- We're a rapidly growing startup with plenty of things we want to accomplish, so you'll be able to set some of your own direction and work on new and interesting things.
Qualifications
- Experience building modern web applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS
- Experience with a JavaScript UI library (React or similar)
- Familiarity with computer science concepts such as algorithmic complexity, interacting with databases, and functional programming.
- Strong focus on quality and maintainability of code