Software Engineer, Frontend

About Waitwhile: Waitwhile is a wait management platform that helps businesses deliver better waiting experiences for their customers through automated, personalized and smartphone-based line experiences. Founded in 2017, Waitwhile has grown to serve over 10,000 companies worldwide and has helped more than 250 million people. The company is backed by CRV and has secured $12 million in funding. Waitwhile’s platform is trusted by major brands like IKEA, Louis Vuitton, Costco, and Google. They are headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Stockholm, New York, Atlanta, and San Francisco. Waitwhile operates with a hybrid model and emphasizes a positive, diverse, and supportive culture. They offer competitive salaries, equity, and a range of benefits including flexible working hours, health plans, and generous time-off policies. Waitwhile was founded in 2017 in San Francisco with the mission to eliminate the 1 Trillion hours that humans waste standing in line every year. Waitwhile has secured $12 million in funding from investors including CRV and has offices in the US and Sweden.

Key Responsibilities: Brainstorm with Product Managers, Designers and Backend Engineers on our team to conceptualize and build new features for our growing user base. Produce high-quality results by contributing heavily to team projects that have a significant impact on the business. Actively own team features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems. Assist our skilled support team and operations team in triaging and resolving production issues. Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

Required Skills: You’ve been building web applications professionally for 5+ years and have experience of modern Angular and RxJS in particular. You’ve excellent proficiency in Javascript/Typescript and a solid understanding of semantic HTML and CSS. A solid understanding in core web and browser concepts (eg. how the browser parses and constructs a web page). Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems. You can contribute to technical architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions within your team. You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability. You’ve experience in writing automated tests. You are a strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you. You possess strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval. You can demonstrate excellent spoken and written English. You have completed a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience.

Bonus Skills: NX mono repos, Google Cloud Platform, Startup experience.