We’re looking for an experienced front end developer to help improve and expand our stock market analysis web app. You can check it out at WallStreetZen.com.
This is a part-time, freelance role.
You’ll help us implement new features and improving existing ones using React in the front end. Familiarity with Material UI, the component library that we’re using, is a plus.
You’ll also help implement marketing improvements to our web app. Any experience with implementing A/B tests or analytics tracking would be a big asset.
Prior stock investing or finance knowledge is also a nice bonus, but not required.
RESPONSIBILITIES
* Handle front end development for new features / improvements to existing features (stock screener, watchlist, stock market data) * Implement marketing improvements to the site (a/b tests, landing pages) * Implement UX improvements to the web app
KEY EXPECTATIONS
* Able to build pixel perfect features using React and Material UI component library * Strong attention to detail * Has good taste in engineering choices, explains and makes wise tradeoffs to balance pragmatism in achieving business requirements with adhering to technical best practices. * Delivers clean, high quality, easily readable and maintainable code * Cares about solving big, systemic problems. You look beyond the surface to identify and understand root causes and seek to resolve those instead of only addressing the symptoms. * Exhibits strong attention to detail and sweats the small things * Good eye for aesthetics and basic understanding of design (good alignment, spacing etc). Able to give input on UI/UX issues.
We believe in an iterative process when building technology and as a result we expect a strong feedback loop - frequent communication, asking questions when there are any uncertainties, pointing out tradeoffs to be made, and front footing anything unexpected are all strongly encouraged and highly valued.
NICE TO HAVE
* Able to do simple mockups in Figma that fits with the existing site aesthetic - when given wireframe + existing components * Experience on a growth team (setting up A/B tests, conversion tracking etc.) * Experience investing in stocks * Ruby on Rails experience
HOW TO APPLY
* Please fill the following form: https://airtable.com/appEx59e6JDQ6PfsF/pag7fXnnIeVhAqn9U/form?prefill_Via=PeoplePerHour&hide_Via=true
