Open Position:
Closed Position:
Senior Frontend Software Engineer

Support the vitality and resilience of communities

This position closed on
7/26/2021

General Info

Location:
East Bay CA & Austin Preferred, US Remote Friendly
Type:
Full Time
Experience:
Senior
Department:
Software Engineering
Reports to:
Principal Software Engineer

Compensation

Salary Range:
*
Benefits:
Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, Paid Family Leave, and 401k.
*In compliance with Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act the salary for this role is listed. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidate's relevant work experience, skills, certifications, and geographic location.
*Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidate's relevant work experience, skills, certifications, and geographic location.

About Underline

Underline starts with our people.

At Underline, we've rapidly built a culture around ownership, trust, community, and innovation. Underline is dedicated to cultivating a growth environment where people feel valued, work with a purpose of mission, are personally rewarded, and are professionally challenged.

Are you ready to join this team and transform American communities?

Underline was founded in 2019 with a singular mission: to ensure the vibrancy of our nation through building intelligent community infrastructure in a socially equitable manner. We work with American communities to design, finance, and construct open access fiber-optic networks. These networks are critical to secure internet access that’s fast, affordable, and fair. As open access networks, this infrastructure is also the essential foundation for distributed healthcare services, new wireless solutions, and resilient infrastructure including modernized water systems and responsible energy creation. Our first two projects are in Colorado Springs and Fountain, Colorado.

About this Position

Does this sound like you?

  • You are hungry, humble, and curious
  • You have excellent attention to details, enjoy building amazing user interfaces and have excellent problem-solving skills
  • You are an intrinsic self-starter and enjoy taking on new challenges
  • You want to be part of the early stages of a company where everything you build matters
  • You want a highly collaborative environment, comprised of diverse subject matter experts in broadband networking, data center infrastructure, software development, and design
  • You care about building critical intelligent infrastructure to increase community vitality and improve resilience

What you'd be doing:

  • Collaborate with product and design to iterate on the design of user-facing features
  • Develop application features by leveraging open-source frameworks as well as building new technologies in house
  • Build and maintain reusable components across projects
  • Work closely with Backend Engineers to conceptualize new features in backend services
  • Maintain high standards of software development and quality through unit testing, integration testing, continuous integration, and automated deployment

Experience we require:

  • 4+ Years of experience as a software engineer
  • Experience with modern web frameworks like Ember, React, Vue, etc. (We use Ember Octane!)
  • Strong experience with test-driven development, continuous integration, and automated testing
  • Experience working with Git and CI/CD toolchains
  • Passion for delivering good UI/UX
  • Able to create clean and maintainable code with modern JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, and HTML
  • Familiarity with GraphQL APIs
  • Familiarity with TailwindCSS
  • Passion for open source
  • Travel to 4 quarterly off-site company retreats is required

Bonus points:

Hiring Manager

Josemar Luedke
Principal Software Engineer

Unsure about applying?

Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But here’s the thing: there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. Underline is a place where everyone can grow. So however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come into work every day.

Position Application

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We maintain exceptionally high standards for talent and recognize that there are many paths to developing expertise. We don't discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, age, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factors. If you have the skills we need and the ambition to grow fast with us, that's all that matters.