Cover Genius
San Francisco, CA
Remote
2022-01-15
Junior Front End Engineer- Remote
The Company
Cover Genius is a Series C global Insurtech with a vision to protect all the customers of the world’s largest digital companies. Partners such as Booking.com, eBay, Shopee, Ola, Wayfair and AXS have integrated XCover, our insurance distribution platform that embeds protection for millions of worldwide customers each year.
Our team and products have been recognized with dozens of awards including by the Financial Times who ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team across 10 countries and many language groups commits itself to diverse cultural programs, in particular “CG Gives” which makes social entrepreneurs out of us all and funds development initiatives in global communities.
Our People are Bold, Authentic, Purposeful and Inspired
Our People are not Perfect, Traditional, Complacent or Cautious
What your day-to-day will look like:
- Work with Technical Account Managers, Product Managers and Designers to maintain and implement new features for e-commerce merchants
- Work with UX teams to build and test important functionality with our e-commerce partner platforms
- Problem solve, and debug integration issues
- Be a key member of a team of front end engineers
- Maintain excellent coding standards and practices
We require the following skills and experience:
- BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- Strong JavaScript skills (ES6+)
- Experience with React (or Preact)
- Understanding of SASS/CSS
- Familiarity with Chrome Dev Tools
Knowledge of the following is a bonus:
- Webpack
- Familiarity with CSS-in-JS (styled-components)
- TypeScript
- BigCommerce
- Shopify
About you:
- Professional approach
- Desire to learn and grow with the role
- Ability to work under pressure
- Organizational and time management skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- Strong communication skills
Why Cover Genius?
Cover Genius not only cares about being the best in our industry, we care about our team. We’re a business that understands life can be fluid and so we flex to ensure we provide the environment to suit that. Some of the benefits we have are:
Flexible Work Environment - we are outcome focussed and understand that for our people to perform at their best flexibility is critical. With the recent impact of Covid we gave 15 days additional leave to all employees for when they need a break and some well-deserved downtime.
- Employee Stock Options - we want our people to share in our success, we reward them with ownership for their contribution in creating a world-class company.
Unlimited leave. It's easier and more flexible for everyone.
- Social Initiatives - pictures speak a thousand words!
Sound interesting? If you think you have the best composition of the above, send us your resume and let's chat!
The health and safety of our people, family and communities is our number one priority. This means that we require all of our employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 if they are not subject to an applicable legal exemption; therefore all offers will be subject to proof of vaccination or an attestation of exemption. Please speak to us if you have any questions regarding our reasonable accommodations process based on your individual circumstances.