Mid Frontend Developer

Bridge for Billions, as one of the largest entrepreneurship networks in the world, creates, designs, and manages innovation programs with foundations, corporations, and public entities that have benefited more than 2900 entrepreneurs in more than 99 countries. Its objective is to facilitate access to entrepreneurial support for all types of entrepreneurs with a common purpose: to boost innovation that solves the problems that truly matter, generate economic growth, and new decent job opportunities. Bridge for Billions, recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30, Ashoka, and Acumen, has worked with more than 100 organizations such as Coca-Cola, Accenture or BMW, and institutions such as the United Nations in the development of entrepreneurship programs that support diverse entrepreneurs in the creation of innovative solutions for today s most pressing issues.

In 6 years, Bridge has grown to a team of 29 people from 13 nationalities, with headquarters in Madrid, where most of our team is based; an emerging LatAm HQ in Antigua, Guatemala, with a few team members; and a few people based in different places around the world. We will likely end the year 2022 as a team of 40 people.

Tasks

JOB MISSION

After more than 220 programs run and 2500 entrepreneurs supported in 98 countries with the support of 3000+ volunteer mentors, we want to accelerate our understanding of our user's and client's needs (B2B clients, Program Managers, Entrepreneurs, Mentors, Investors ) and speed up the evolution of the product and experience to meet their needs. Your job mission at Bridge for Billions is to innovate, develop and maintain our Product, collaborating closely with Designers, Researchers, and other Developers to help us achieve the Business objectives. This means developing Front-end features in an agile environment and bringing new ideas and solutions to solve our users issues.

Requirements

REQUIREMENTS

These are the required skills that we are looking for to achieve your missing in this job opportunity:

• Professional spoken English.
• +2 years of professional front-end development experience.
• A passion for clean code and hot new front-end technologies.
• React JS experience is required.
• Knowledge of new Javascript ES6 and CSS libraries (Sass, styled components...).
• Good knowledge of git and GitHub.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

...and these are the nice-to-have ones that you can also bring:

• Have worked with Redux and Redux-sagas
• Experience with front-end tests (Jest)
• Used to deal with APIs and a good understanding of how they are built.
• How to improve Web applications performance
• Mobile experience (React Native or similar)

Skills we look for in all Bridge team members:

• Purpose alignment: This position is not just a job but aligns with your individual purpose, the impact you want to make in this world and who you want to become.
• Values alignment: You embody our 4 team s values: Courage, Grit, Empathy and Gumption.
• You have a start-up mindset highly collaborative with an entrepreneurial, roll-up-your sleeves attitude. You re not afraid to be responsible for the outcomes of your work and work independently when required.
• You take initiative, you re results-driven and you show empathy in all your interactions with team members, entrepreneurs, mentors, and partners.
• You have a very strong emotional intelligence that allows you to quickly understand people s needs and expectations and develop trust, engagement and commitment in your relationships.
• Passion for your work and for lifelong learning.
• Growth mindset and resilience to overcome challenges, understanding that systemic change requires hard work.
• Able to juggle many different responsibilities and prioritize own workload.

Benefits

RECRUITMENT PROCESS

Throughout the selection process, we ll dedicate time to your application and give you feedback, and this is more or less what you can expect from it:

1. Submit your resume and a cover letter in English to cover the following questions
2. Self-intro
3. Past relevant work experience in Product, business, and entrepreneurship
4. Tools & processes you are familiar with from those experiences (a more concrete example will be appreciated)
5. Why do you want to join Bridge for Billions?
6. What are you looking for in this role?
7. 30min first contact
8. Case Challenge
9. Interview about the Case Challenge
10. References check
11. The final interview, potentially with the CEO + other team leads
12. Offer

After accepting the offer, you will go through a B4B onboarding process where you ll be accompanied by your People-Leader and other team members who will make sure that your expectations are met as well as ours and that you have everything you need in order to succeed at this job.

OFFER AND LOCATION

Transparent salaries and fair compensation structure, mid-range for the social sector:

• Compensation of 25,000 - 35,000 per year, depending on profile.
• $200 Referral Bonus. If you bring someone you know to the team you will get $100 bonus at hire + $100 additional after 6 month
• Location: Madrid
• Start date: As soon as we find the right person.
• Position type: Full-time.

OTHER BENEFITS

Impact & Team

• A real vision for systemic change in the entrepreneurship sector, with the goal to make it more equitable, inclusive, and efficient.
• Work on something that matters, and contribute to helping thousands of entrepreneurs from all over the world.
• The chance to shape the company by taking on a key role in a booming social enterprise.
• An international dynamic team of young professionals with lots of passion and a clear vision.
• Co-created values, a compass to achieve our mission: Gumption, Courage, Grit, and Empathy.
• Check out Bridge team members' reviews on Glassdoor.

Growth

• 4-day company retreats once or twice a year paid for by the company. Fundamental in our culture, they help us align, grow in leadership, tackle big topics, and bond as a team, and they re led by external and experienced coaches and facilitators.
• Learning budget based on a specific need or opportunity (examples: team members have accessed backend Bootcamp, leadership training, or facilitation trainings).
• Big feedforward and feedback culture. Monthly one-on-ones with your team lead to help you grow and in-depth individual and peer-reviews 4 times per year.
• Team members are encouraged to give talks, and give/receive internal training.

Wellbeing & Paid Time Off

• 22 days of vacation with the flexibility to go above, plus local public holidays.
• Choose your public holidays between the country you re based in and the country you re from we know you may want to celebrate the special days from your country of origin!
• Access to Spill, an emotional support service to take care of your mental health where you can chat with therapists on demand.
• Health Insurance bonus of $60/month added to your salary.

Materials, Flexibility & Remote Work

• We will provide you with a second-hand Macbook computer bought from our friends at Backmarket or equivalent so you can do your best work while preventing e-waste.
• Flexible working hours and remote days.
• If you re based in Madrid we have a great office in the city center with lots of light, big screens, and a huge terrace. We love to grab lunch together and talk about life s silly and deeper things.