What are the responsibilities and job description for the Front End Engineer position at Rewards Network?
About the job
Celebrating 40 years in business. Rewards Network has helped restaurants increase their revenue, traffic, and customer engagement through our innovative financial, marketing services, and premier dining rewards programs. We connect diners to fantastic restaurant experiences by offering unique card-linked offers. Our offers leverage advanced technology and powerful data analytics, providing value to our restaurants, diners, and strategic partners' loyalty programs.
Our Culture
At Rewards Network, you will find a passionate and diverse group of professionals that enjoy working collaboratively, solving problems, and taking ownership of not only their own careers and success, but the success and continued growth of the organization. We take pride in partnering with the world's most powerful loyalty programs to bring full price paying customers and better ways to access working capital options to local restaurants. We offer a challenging and rewarding environment where you can maximize your potential.
Job Overview
The Front End Engineer builds and maintains user-facing features for the company’s high-visibility web platforms within an agile team. This role exists to ensure seamless, responsive, and engaging digital experiences that support millions of users and align with organizational goals.
We are hiring experienced Software Engineers and Senior Software Engineers who are passionate about technology and innovation. Whether you're a recent graduate or an experienced professional, we have opportunities for you to contribute to exciting projects, solve complex problems, and grow in your career.
This is a hybrid position that requires in office presence two days a week in Chicago
What you’ll bring to the table: (Responsibilities)
- Build user-facing features for high-visibility web platforms using modern front-end frameworks and technologies.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver features efficiently in an agile development environment.
- Maintain a reusable component library to ensure consistent design and functionality across web projects.
- Create responsive web applications that perform seamlessly across various devices and browsers.
- Produce clean, testable code with supporting unit tests to uphold quality standards.
- Enhance user experience by applying design and usability principles to web features.
- Resolve complex technical challenges through innovative problem-solving and alternative recommendations.
- Incorporate security practices into development processes to protect applications and data.
- Improve development workflows by suggesting and implementing process enhancements.
- Research emerging front-end techniques to keep projects aligned with industry standards.
Do you have the right mix of ingredients: (Requirements)
- 3 years of experience developing responsive single-page web applications with modern technologies.
- Preferred; Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or completion of a coding bootcamp.
- Proficiency with React for building dynamic user interfaces.
- Expertise in TypeScript for type-safe JavaScript development.
- Skill in ES6 and modern JavaScript for advanced scripting.
- Experience with SASS for scalable and maintainable styling.
- Competence in integrating REST APIs into web applications.
- Ability to write and test code using unit testing tools (e.g., Vitest, Jest, Testing Library).
- Understanding of responsive design principles for cross-device compatibility.
- Knowledge of user experience best practices for web and mobile platforms.
- Familiarity with web security practices to safeguard applications.
- Experience collaborating in agile teams to deliver features efficiently.
- Background in maintaining reusable component libraries (e.g., using Storybook).
What you’ll love about us:
Comprehensive benefits package, which includes:
- This is a full-time, exempt position and the base compensation for this opening in Chicago is expected to be $100,000-$140,000 annualized, depending on level, candidate experience, skills, and other factors; this position will be eligible for an annual bonus program with a target of 7.5-10% base annualized salary, for a total compensation of $107,500-$154,000.
- Competitive Paid Time Off and company holidays
- Generous dining reimbursement when you dine with our restaurant clients
- 401(k) plan with a company match
- Two medical plan options- Standard PPO or High Deductible Health Plan (HSA with company match for HDHP participants)
- Partnership with Rx n Go, offering certain prescriptions for free
- Two dental plan options and a vision plan
- Flexible Spending Accounts and a pre-tax commuter benefit program
- Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity Insurance Plans
- Short Term and Long Term disability
- Company-paid life insurance and AD&D insurance, supplemental employee, spouse, and child life insurance
- Employee Life Assistance Program
- Hybrid working environment in a new office space downtown near the Metra Train stations and catered lunches on Tuesdays.
Rewards Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We encourage and strongly support workplace diversity.
Salary : $100,000 - $140,000
