Lead Front-EndSoftware Engineer

If youve been looking to join a fastgrowing startup backed by the same investors as Stripe & Airbnb whose mission is to make a huge positive impact then youve landed on the right job.

Our Mission

Our mission at Percent is to power purpose in every company and nonprofit worldwide. We already work with 30 industry giants such as Google HSBC & TikTok. We enable them to quickly and easily build giving into their products enabling nonprofits to access these innovative new funding streams.

Our donation volume is growing rapidly: in 2021 we donated $3.5m. In 2022 we did$120m andin 2023 we donated over $1bn. This year our mission is to enable over $2bn of donations to good causes. To achieve this we need you.

Join our startup and make a difference as Lead FrontEnd Software Engineer

In this role you will have two main objectives. First to lead the company frontend strategy and second to be a member of the Giving Team where youll play a crucial role in helping us expand the product for our global partners. You will be part of an autonomous crossfunctional product team able to make its own decisions based on business objectives.

In return well give you a platform to exercise your creativity and innovate to your hearts content.

Apply Now and come build a better world with us at Percent

As Lead FrontEnd Software Engineer and part of the Giving Team your mission will be to:

• Shape the strategy for our entire Front end offering including dashboards hosted forms marketing sites giving products and design system
• Care deeply about our product and help us evolve to be the number 1 purpose provider globally
• Work closely with engineering management and the frontend engineering team to deliver a comprehensive frontend strategy
• Help the Giving Team deliver our frontend work efficiently for our partners

After 3 months success will look like:

• You will have started to build strong relationships within the company and especially within the product team and management to allow you to excel at your role
• You will have built a technical strategy for our frontend product suite to enable us to reliably scale our offerings in a performant manner
• You will understand the Giving Domain and contribute your ideas to the product
• You will have found the free sock merch in the office

For this role we are especially looking for:

• An excellent communicator and negotiator; you will be required to bring together and get agreement from stakeholders from different domains of the business and at varying levels of seniority
• Strong knowledge of and enthusiasm for frontend architectures; we have lots of products need to enable our engineers to deliver at high velocity and need an expert to help guide our strategy in line with our overarching principles of autonomy enabled by a pragmatic approach rooted in domain driven design
• Proactive leadership driving teams forward eliminating inertia and bureaucracy; we have important work to progress and we have no time to stand still

This role is a perfect match for you if you have substantial experience with:

• 6 years experience working with frontend projects
• React.js and TypeScript
• Frontend performance optimisation and testing methodologies
• Working on a large or complex production codebase developing secure scalable resilient systems.
• Being product focused
• Responsive web design
• Written documentation to make proposals to different stakeholders
• Balancing empathy for customer needs with a visionary perspective that goes beyond simply delivering a faster horse (inspired by a Stripe job description we like and agree with )
• Integrating with external services
• Monitoring systems and continuous integration
• Mentoring more junior engineers

Bonus points but not required if you have knowledge or love of:

• Working in a startup environment (we value your ability to deal with and adapt to fastpaced decisionmaking change and the need to deliver at scale and speed)
• Micro frontend experience
• DomainDriven Development
• Tea drinking

Role Comp

100000

What you can expect upon joining our team

Salary reviews and share options
Flexible working hours
Paid day off on your birthday!
25 days annual leave plus paid public holidays
Paid sick leave
Paid mental health leave
Paid wellness leave
Learning & development budget
Percent library
Paid days off to volunteer for nonprofit causes
Parental leave
UK cycletowork scheme
Were remotefirst but offer a cosy office in central London for those who enjoy the onsite workspace experience
and so much more

OUR PLEDGE TO DIVERSITY EQUITY & INCLUSION

We take pride in our diverse and growing team representing 20 nationalities across 5 continents ! Our continued expansion provides us with opportunities to embrace and celebrate different backgrounds perspectives and experiences essential to our success. We actively seek and welcome applicants from all walks of life regardless of race religion colour national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status.

A team that well represents the world that we are trying to support is a wiser more knowledgeable and stronger one. Were excited for you to bring your experience yourself & special lemon twist to Percent to propel us forward in striving to create a better world for us all.

Check out our Careers Page for more details!