What are the responsibilities and job description for the Full-Stack Software Engineer (Front-End Focus) position at Amount?
Amount is the premiere digital transformation partner for financial institutions committed to the future of banking and to creating safe and personalized customer experiences that help people better manage their financial lives. Our fully integrated and flexible platform is built on years of digital lending experience, enabling digital agility within months and a full suite of end-to-end consumer, small business and embedded finance solutions that fit the way people want to bank.
Inclusion, diversity, and belonging are core to Amount's values, and we believe they are more than words, they are actions. We support our commitment to these ideas by empowering intrepid engagement and learning, increasing diverse representation, and fostering a culture where everyone can bring their full self to work without regard to differences. We look for people who embrace this culture.
A DAY IN THE LIFE :
As a Full-Stack Software Engineer with a Front-End Focus, you'll start your day syncing with a mission-driven Client Experience team, collaborating with designers, back-end engineers, and product managers to align on priorities. Your primary focus will be designing and implementing scalable, high-performance user interfaces, while also integrating with and optimizing back-end services.
You'll work primarily in JavaScript, TypeScript, and React, leveraging modern frameworks to build seamless, responsive web applications. You'll ensure UI / UX best practices are followed, optimize front-end performance for high-traffic fintech applications, and contribute to our back-end services using Java and Spring Boot.
By the end of the day, you'll review pull requests, refine sprint goals, and explore innovative ways to improve both the front-end experience and full-stack efficiency.
Team : Will join a client experience mission-driven team.
Similar job titles : Software Engineer, Full-Stack Software Engineer, Software Developer, Front-End Software Engineer
Salary : $120,000 - $160,000
Benefits & Perks : Check them out HERE!
WHAT WE'LL TRUST YOU TO DELIVER :
- Write clean, maintainable, and scalable front-end and full-stack code that meets performance and security standards
- Translate complex requirements into intuitive, high-performance user interfaces, while integrating them seamlessly with back-end services
- Work closely with product and design teams to implement user-friendly features aligned with business needs
- I mprove load times, responsiveness, and scalability of front-end applications, leveraging best practices in caching and asset management
- Work with Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and microservices to connect front-end applications with scalable, high-performance back-end systems
- Review pull requests, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to a culture of continuous learning and improvement
- Stay ahead of emerging front-end technologies, ensuring the best tools and frameworks are leveraged for modern fintech applications
WHAT YOU LIKELY BRING TO THE TABLE :
TOOLS YOU WILL OR MIGHT WORK WITH :
ReactJs, Java, Springboot, Micronaut, Temporal, ActiveMQ, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS, Jenkins, Git
ABOUT AMOUNT (TL;DR)
Founded : 2020
Employees : 150
Locations : Chicago (HQ) and US Remote
Funding : Amount has raised $281M in total equity capital since inception, including most recently at a valuation of $1B. Investors include WestCap, Hanaco Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Invus Opportunities, Mastercard, and PSCU
Press : Amount Blog - Equity Raise, Business Wire, PR Newswire - Comerica, PYMNTS - PSCU, A Year in Review - Amount's Blog, Builtin, The Financial Brand
Key Customers : TD Bank, Velera, Guaranteed Rate, American Express, Citizens, Fifth Third Bank, Bank United, FIS, Associated Bank, Comerica
Social Media : LinkedIn, Builtin, Twitter, Amount Blog
Tech Stack : Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, Lattice, G Suite, Atlassian, AWS, Python, Java, Ruby, GO, node.js, Temporal, Scala, Apache NiFi, Talend, Informatica, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Pandas, Looker, Argo, Airflow Luigi, Kubernetes, C#, JavaScript (for advanced concepts), ASP.NET MVC, .NET Core, Microsoft SQL Server, Entity Framework (ORM for database interaction)
Salary : $120,000 - $160,000
