Sense is a diverse, collaborative team tackling one of the most universal challenges in today’s workforce. With a mission to change the way companies engage with talent, we’re creating a better experience for employers, recruiters, and candidates. Your work at Sense will impact millions of people around the globe and will be instrumental in evolving an entire industry. Join us in shaping the workforce of the future!

Founded in 2015, Sense is a high-growth HR Tech SaaS startup with offices in the Bay Area and Bangalore. It has 150+ team members, serves 500+ customers, and has grown 100% year-over-year since launch. We have raised over $40M in funding, backed by GV (Google), Accel, and Avataar Ventures.

As a part of the Sense team, you’ll play an active role in shaping and developing our products and processes. Our founders are lifelong entrepreneurs with a history of building, scaling, and successfully exiting large companies. At Sense, your career goals will be supported through active mentorship and learning and development opportunities. We’re an experienced team and looking for great people to add to our team.We care deeply about the success of our customers and strive to help them achieve their goals in inspiring and engaging with their workforce. Sense is seeking a Senior or Lead Frontend Engineer to deliver our contractor communication platform to the world’s best places to work.

As a Lead Frontend Engineer at Sense, you’ll be intimately involved with bringing features from idea to completion, and mentoring an incredibly talented group of peers.

You’ll join a collaborative, fun team where everyone, including you, is active in the product defining and development process. Our founders are lifelong entrepreneurs and have built and scaled large companies. By working with them, you will have the front row seat to see how a company grows and scales. We want to support your career goals, whether it remains here or beyond. Interested in knowing how product management or sales work? Let’s have you sit in on actual sales calls. Wondering how to grow engineering teams in a high growth company? We’ll directly mentor you and you’ll learn from those who’ve been at multiple successful companies. Sense is a rapidly scaling company making this the best environment to take on ownership as well as learning how to grow a company.

Responsibilities:
• Provide product ownership and mentor a team of talented Frontend Engineers
• Build and maintain crisp, consistent interfaces for our customers
• Lead code reviews, pairing sessions, and architecture discussions
• Responsibility for several large-scale ReactJS web applications
• Work closely with our cross-functional teams consisting of designers, product managers, and QA in an agile, fast-paced environment
• Implement and maintain features such as Chat interfaces and data visualisations
• Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions
• Participate in interviews and hiring as we staff up our team

Qualification:
• Demonstrated ownership of product and mentoring other Frontend Engineers
• 4+ years of professional Javascript development experience
• Experience in creating modern web UIs with React and Redux
• Experience developing websites consuming various APIs from a microservice backend system
• Experience writing testable code and maintaining test infrastructure
• Exceptional coding, debugging, and architecting skills, with an eye for maintainability, reliability, and performance

Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with TypeScript
• Experience with WebSockets
• Experience with Canvas, SVG, or animation
• Experience in a high growth startup environment

Perks & Benefits
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
• Equity
• All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines