Senior Frontend / Full Stack Engineer

About Nylas

Our mission is to help developers leverage communications data and build features that increase customer engagement, productivity, and retention.

Nylas was founded in 2013 by a couple of MIT grads who were passionate about making complex systems simpler. Our co-founder and CTO Christine Spang saw that email use was growing at a steady rate, yet there wasn’t a simple way to unify this data-rich tool in a way that developers could easily integrate with this data. She and a small team (at the time) set out to fix this.

Position

You will be responsible for building features using modern javascript, with an eye for user experience. You should have familiarity with ES6+ syntax, at least one modern application framework (like Svelte, React, Ember, Vue, or Angular), and data flow best-practices. Additionally, you will help to guide architectural and coding decisions for the team.

Responsibilities:

• Fast, iterative feature prototyping
• Developing web components and a web-component-based feature ecosystem
• Working collaboratively with a team of developers, designers, and product owners to develop and evolve features
• Writing tests to ensure reliability of our features
• Connecting features to RESTful APIs and managing data flow
• Designing new feature architectures
• Teaching and mentoring other developers on best-practices
• Creating and upholding documentation about architectural decisions and component ecosystem

Your qualification

• 5+ years of front-end feature development, including 2+ years as a senior developer or equivalent
• Experience working on an agile team
• Strong foundations in Computer Science or Software Engineering
• Experience integrating user-facing tools with modern APIs
• Experience iterating with git / modern version control
• Competency in at least one front-end javascript framework (like Svelte, React, Ember, Vue, or Angular)
• Ability to write modern CSS and style applications in collaboration with our design team
  • Experience with modern layout techniques like Grid or Flexbox
  • Knowledge of pre-processors like SCSS, LESS, or PostCSS
• Experience with common databases (SQL and NoSQL alike) and creating applications that interface with them
• Experience working with DevOps teams to facilitate modern deployment strategies
• Experience mentoring junior engineers

Will be a plus

• GraphQL / modern dynamic API conventions
• Web Components
• NoSQL databases, like DynamoDB or MongoDB
• Serverless application architecture, using tools like AWS Lambda or Azure Functions
• Cloud computing platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure, or Heroku
• Deployment strategies using CI/CD tools like Jenkins or CircleCI
• Modern behaviour-driven testing frameworks like Cypress
• Functional toolchains (like Lodash or Ramda)
• Front-end authentication models and methods (like JWT)
• Building features that leverage data science and natural language processing models
• The NodeJS ecosystem
• Python or other backend languages

What we offer

• Tech setup - we’ll make sure you have everything you need to work at your best, including laptop, laptop stand, and noise canceling headphones
• Competitive Pay
• Meaningful Equity
• Medical, Vision, Dental, and Life benefits for you and your family
• $1k yearly Education & Development benefit
• $100 a month health and wellness benefit
• Relocation assistance
• Unlimited vacation including a highly recommended 2-week consecutive vacation once per year
• 12 weeks caregiver leave
• Flexible work hours