Front-End Software Developer
Small businesses and startups face a myriad of management challenges for their most important asset, its people. With fragmented and disjointed equity and people software in the marketplace, teams need a better solution.
Roots Technology is disrupting and solving universal entrepreneurial pain points by launching Sprout, a comprehensive suite of stakeholder management software-as-a-service. Sprout will empower founders and teams to easily manage critical equity and people information, creating a single source of truth.
Roots was founded by an ex-Uber Asia executive and a China product & engineering leader with a combined 35 years of global startup experience launching companies to scale and managed hundreds of people. We were selected to join the June 2019 cohort of the Hong Kong Cyberport Incubation Program.
We are looking to add talented individuals to our founding team --start from the ground up to build and launch the very rocket ship in which you will ride. Join us in our mission to help teams better manage their stakeholders.
For What We Are Hiring:
We’re looking for a person who is a skilled Front-End Software Developer to build and launch the first version of our platform. Applicants must have strong technical skills and enjoy working closely with stakeholders across engineering, product, business and marketing. Our tech stack is Reach, Javascript, PHP and MySQL. Prior experience in FinTech and all these technologies is ideal, but not required.
You’ll have a unique opportunity to join a startup and learn the best practices from Silicon Valley and China against the backdrop of a traditionally financial hub as Hong Kong. We are building people management tools for teams so we will lead by example with a world class culture that promotes diversity and inclusion and enable our people to reach their maximum potential.
What You Will Do:
- Build reusable React components for use in your projects as well as company-wide projects
- Use existing internal APIs and help develop new APIs to interact with the Carta backend services
- Work closely with our full-stack and backend engineers during feature development
- Teach existing engineers best practices using modern JavaScript
- Build testing infrastructure to test frontend code and React components
QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of experience working with JavaScript frameworks like React
- Comfortable regularly working in team environments
- Experience working with business stakeholders to understand business requirements and build thoughtful solutions
- Understanding or experience architecting complex SaaS products
- Understanding or experience with agile and programming in a test driven development environment
- Understanding or experience with API integrations, databases (MySQL, MongoDB, etc.), and cloud services (AWS, Tencent, Alicloud, etc.)
- Knowledge of code versioning tools such as Git
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, preferably with Mandarin speaking skills
Benefits and Perks
- This is a complete western startup environment with a combination of cash and a significant equity stake, based on the candidate’s previous experience.
- We will be expanding to offer a full range of benefits, including MPF, full health insurance and other reimbursement programs
- Other perks will include a fun, comfortable working environment with catered lunches, yummy snacks to refuel and of course, high quality coffees and teas to keep you powered