Senior Front End Engineer

Who are we:

Paperless Parts is a Boston-based Series B SaaS company, backed by OpenView, that is leading the digital transformation for custom part manufacturers with a cloud-based software platform that helps manufacturers increase revenue and win more business. Paperless Parts is the most powerful quoting tool for manufacturers. We bring modern and secure software solutions to the manufacturing industry with a mission to help manufacturers be more efficient in the quoting, sales, and estimating process. With the pandemic accelerating digital transformation and our customers performing essential services, our company has grown faster than ever in the last year.

Paperless Parts offers a collaborative space full of motivated and hard-working team members. We’re creators and doers with a shared ambition to make a difference in the future of manufacturing and looking for driven individuals to join our growing team.

Due to the nature of our business and interaction with external clients, Paperless Parts has a COVID-19 vaccination mandate. (Unvaccinated persons may request medical or religious accommodations on a case-by-case basis).

The Opportunity:

Building a great user experience for our customers is core to our strategy here at Paperless Parts. That’s why, we are looking for Front End developers who are not only passionate about the technology they use, but are invested in the success of our customers.

Our development pods are data driven and outcome focused, built around specific short term and long term goals. This allows our teams to wholly own the success of our customers. As a Front End developer for your pod, you will be collaborating with your teammates, which include designers and product managers, to build full end to end features. You will also work with other Front End developers to improve the tooling and infrastructure for our tech stack.

This is a full-time position reporting to VP, Engineering.

Who you are:

You’re an individual with high attention to detail. You care about the user experience of the product because you know how it impacts our customers. You have a strong opinion about what a good user experience is and can build toward achieving that vision. You’ve worked within an agile environment before and know how to collaborate with your team in an iterative fashion to achieve team goals.

This position requires activities that are subject to US Export Control Laws and require US Citizenship or Green Card Holder.

Responsibilities will include:

• Building out UI features in collaboration with the rest of your development pod.
• Collaborating with other FrontEnd engineers to build out the design library.
• Enhancing our FrontEnd tech stack by improving our build tools and automation.
• Here are examples of what you might be doing in a particular day:
  • Working on updating a piece of the UI to use the new design system
  • Solving a performance problem on a complicated UI
  • Creating a new component for the component library
  • Collaborating with UX designers to solve design and usability problems
  • Upgrading our version of React and adopting new features
  • Adjusting our webpack build for more performance
  • Creating unit tests to ensure quality in our UI components

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Bachelor's Degree in computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 3-5 years related work experience
• Strong understanding of the foundations of JavaScript / HTML / CSS
• Experience with single page app frameworks e.g. React / Vue / Angular
• Understanding of Front End tooling and build systems - e.g. NPM / Webpack
• Experience with Front End testing libraries - jest / mocha
• Familiarity with Cloud Providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Familiarity working with Docker and its associated tooling

Paperless Parts Life

Team: You will be joining a highly driven, ambitious, experienced, and motivated team that is dedicated to changing the future of the manufacturing industry.

Culture: This is a start-up - we work hard, but also celebrate our wins together. We recognize the hard work of our teammates, help where we can, share feedback, and constantly push each other to improve. Everyone in the company has a voice - there are no politics here, just a shared mission and strong desire to succeed.

Location: Our headquarters is located in the bustling West End neighborhood of Boston, MA and across the street from the North Station for easy access from most transit routes (1 minute walk from Orange/Green line, 3 minute walk from Commuter Rail, or 6 minute walk from Blue line).

Office: Our office has been intentionally designed for comfortable productivity, with a combination of open collaborative spaces, individual desks (with ergonomic chairs and adjustable height desks) and quiet focus areas. We have a foosball table, a rotating selection of beer on tap, and snacks. Employees and guests must be fully vaccinated to enter our offices.

Benefits: We offer competitive pay and unlimited PTO as we recognize that our team works hard and we ask that you take time when you need it. We provide 10 paid holidays, company sponsored wellness/gym, and stock options. We also cover 100% of healthcare premiums through Tufts Health Plan; Dental premiums through Delta Dental, and EyeMed Vision premiums for you and your dependents, because we value your health, and the health of your most important people. We provide company sponsored Life Insurance, Short Term Disability, and Long Term Disability, and offer Voluntary Life (including spouse and children) as well as FSA and Commuter pre-tax programs. We just added a 401k plan as of 2/1/2022.

Paperless Parts is an Equal Opportunity & Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.