Frontend Software Engineer

Title: Frontend Software Engineer

Location: Boston, MA

Reporting Structure: This role reports to the Head of Product and Engineering.

Company Description

CivilGrid is a venture-backed SaaS construction tech company building the "Google Maps for the Underground." Come help us disrupt a $4.7T US industry segment that desperately needs innovation. This opportunity has tremendous upside as it scales.

CivilGrid aggregates public and proprietary utility, geotechnical, environmental, and jurisdictional data. The consolidated information is sold via our collaborative SaaS mapping platform to engineers and developers who need it to make early-stage decisions on real estate and infrastructure projects. Real time data access reduces labor and project delays, accelerates decision making and reduces project risk. Collaborative features ensure faster information flow and decisioning inside and outside the organization and better project insight retention over time.

Responsibilities

As a small team, we all wear many hats and enjoy tackling new challenges. When it comes to tech, we're seeking experienced individuals who can efficiently identify problems and devise solutions. You will be a foundational team member with the opportunity to work on all aspects of the application and shape the technical future of CivilGrid. Joining at this stage, you will build core systems that will help us scale quickly, and benefit from tremendous upside as we grow. While we don't expect you to be an expert of our tech stack, a strong understanding of CS fundamentals is required.

You will be responsible for:

• Collaborate with product and design to prototype and iterate on intelligent workflows and user interactions

• Conduct code reviews and provide feedback to other team members

• Mentor junior software engineers and help them develop their skills

Is this you?

• Built and deployed complex UIs

• Have 4 - 7 years experience with React or similar

• Have 1 - 3 years experience working in non-traditional UI technologies - Canvas, Maps, WebGL etc

• Take pride in 0-1 ownership

• Comfortable in a greenfield environment and excited to shape, design, and stand up new systems

• Strong communication skills - verbal and written

• Have a few war stories to share on running high scale production systems

• Bonus: BS/MS in CS, Civil Engineering or similar

• Bonus: Prior startup or founder experience

The Tech

• ReactJS, TailwindCSS, Mapbox

• Bun.sh, NodeJS, Postgres, Redis

• Hosted on AWS via ECS

• GitHub, Slack, Notion, Figma

#Perks

• Interesting and challenging work

• Lots of room for growth

• Competitive salary and equity

• Health insurance

• Flexible and remote-friendly work environment

• FSA (health and dependent care)

• Unlimited PTO

Requirements

• US Work authorization