Senior Software Engineer, Front

Developer Platform

$150-235k

Equity

TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

2-3 days a week in office

Front

Shared customer communication hub

Job no longer available

Front

Shared customer communication hub

201-500 employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsCommunicationCustomer serviceAutomation

Job no longer available

$150-235k

Equity

TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

2-3 days a week in office

201-500 employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsCommunicationCustomer serviceAutomation

Company mission

To make work happier by powering better relationships at scale.

Role

Who you are

  • Product mindset: committed to building the best user and developer experience
  • Industry experience building fast, reliable, real-time web-based applications
  • Experience working with or building APIs
  • Fluency in a dynamic language like Javascript, Python, Ruby, or similar
  • Strong track record of launching and delivering projects of significant complexity and high level of ambiguity
  • Understand the trade-offs in employing different engineering solutions to a problem, valuing pragmatism over idealism
  • Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, collaborative, and high-growth environment
  • Full professional English proficiency

Desirable

  • Experience working with complex data models and distributed systems at scale
  • Experience with TypeScript and React.js
  • Experience with API design

What the job involves

  • As a member of the Developer Platform team, you’ll be responsible for building the next generation of integrations for our partner developers and customers
  • By enabling customers to take advantage of backend automation and build bespoke UIs within Front, your work will be the foundation of Front’s mission to empower businesses to provide tailor-made service at scale
  • Design, develop, and maintain key partner integrations
  • Drive discussions around Front’s integrations strategy
  • Design, build, and own developer-friendly frameworks and documentation
  • Collaborate closely with product managers, product designers and other engineers to conceptualize, build and test new product features

Otta's take

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Xav Kearney

CTO of Otta

When a business receives an email from a customer it can set off a chain of forwarded emails across the company, an inefficient process where information (and sales!) can easily get lost. Front exists to change this, consolidating all customer communications into a single shared inbox which can be accessed by teams of any size and completely eliminates the need for internal emails.

With more companies moving to remote working and eCommerce becoming the predominant form of conducting business, Front's product has been enthusiastically received by over 8,000 companies, including Mailchimp, Shopitfy and Convoy. However it is by no means alone in this space, with huge competitors such as Google and Microsoft providing communications solutions and other internal communications tools such as Slack gaining traction. Front may have an edge here though: its unified solution also provides automated workflows, ticketing and analytical tools that are either absent or less well integrated in competing offerings.

In 2022, Front raised investments in a Series D round and achieved unicorn status with a valuation of over $1 billion. It is moving to futher develop its product and increase its market share, hiring on new talent ahead of a possible IPO in the near future. Definitely watch this space!

Insights

Led by a woman
Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

37% female employees

-25% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Jun 2022

$65m

SERIES D

Jan 2020

$59m

SERIES C

Total funding: $203.3m

Company benefits

  • Flexible PTO
  • 401(K) plan
  • Parental Leave
  • Volunteer time off
  • Commuter benefits
  • Wellness benefits
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance
  • Equity
  • Mental health support
  • Family planning support

Company values

  • Transparency
  • Care
  • High standards
  • Collaboration
  • Low ego

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Founders

Former Hacker in Residence at eFounders. Former Technical Architect at FaberNovel and CTO at Radioline. MSc in Computer Science at Ecole Polytechnique.

Former Project Manager at Concord with MA in Entrepreneurship at HEC Paris.

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