Come cook up some JavaScript with Yummly

This growth-focused Front-End Engineering position is a fresh take on a classic recipe. With a fine balance of hands-on development, strategic vision, and team leadership, this position will turn Yummly’s rich, complex, and dynamic data into beautiful and intuitive website features. Close your eyes and you will be transported to a beautiful and spacious dog-friendly office replete with a fully-equipped chef’s kitchen, game room, and private parking in commuter-friendly downtown Redwood City.

Ingredients

• 3+ years experience as a front-end JavaScript developer
• Generous helping of ES6, modern JS libraries and frameworks (e.g. React, jQuery, Angular, Backbone, Ember, Knockout, etc), and other bleeding-edge web development technologies
• Experience with highly-dynamic single-page application architectures
• A demonstrated startup mindset (motivation, drive, ambition, energy, agility, and business acumen)
• 1 Tablespoon of data-driven decision making skills
• 1 ½ cups of superb communication and collaboration skills
• + Added leadership qualities and experience, to taste

Other Additions:

• Strong React.js skills
• Full-stack understanding and experience
• Previous managerial responsibilities
• Passion for food
• Sense of humor

Directions:

Combine all ingredients into one position. Apply to Yummly’s website, focusing on building the next generation of fast and beautiful products used by millions of people for food and cooking inspiration everyday.

Use your self-motivation and creativity to solve complex problems that you will help identify and define. Rebuild website from scratch on the foundation of modern single-page app architecture and ES6. Join an already successful team as we re-invent ourselves and re-imagine the possibilities.

With aggressive and gritty approach, unlock Yummly’s massive growth potential. Apply data-driven decision-making in a way that charts a clear and communicable path to success. Include pixel-level attention to detail as a passion, point of pride, and major motivator.

Add garnish to set yourself apart and bake for 30 minutes, or until hot and bubbly.

Serves:

Over 15 million monthly unique web visitors (more once you join the team)

Nutritional Benefits:

• A brand-new office in downtown Redwood City, including private parking and
• Access to a custom chef’s kitchen
• A plethora of food and beverages
• Dog-friendly office
• Unique catered lunches every Wednesday
• In-house registered dietician and nutritionist
• Monthly stipend for Health & Wellness or Commuter benefits
• Competitive salary
• Standard health and life insurances
• 401K
• Equity

About Us:

Companies like Netflix and Spotify understand your preferences for music and entertainment. We eat three times a day, so why can't we do the same for food? Yummly is building the smart, personal, and seamless platform for taste to algorithmically answer the age old question, "What's for dinner?"