Senior React Engineer

Overview

Founders Table Restaurant Group launched in January 2020 to create, acquire, and cultivate innovative and profitable founder-led restaurant companies. Founders Table, which currently includes Chopt Creative Salad Co. and Dos Toros Taqueria, leans on digital and operational innovation to drive the growth of industry-leading culinary concepts.

The Senior Front-end React Developer will be part of a small team at Founders Table focused on building and maintaining custom systems that help us improve our customers’ digital ordering experiences. This engineer will play a critical role in the development of new systems, as an active contributor during the conceptualization phase and as the lead engineer during development and beyond.

This role requires a willingness to think outside of the box and a passion for creating seamless user experiences. The ideal candidate should possess strong work ethic and exhibit excellent communication and organization skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain new custom applications that enable our customers to have great digital ordering experiences
• Maintain, enhance, and implement new features and functionality to existing customer facing ordering applications
• Work collaboratively to improve and standardize development processes across a small but growing dev team

Required Qualifications

• B.S. degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience in front-end development
• 4+ years of experience working with React and Redux (incl. redux-saga)
• Experience working with AWS for large-scale production applications
• Understanding of layout aesthetics and strong CSS skills
• Experience working with APIs and authentication protocols
• Exemplary communication skills; ability to explain possible solutions to non-technical team members
• Ability to work well independently as well as part of a team
• Self-motivation with a strong drive for achievement
• Passion for learning new technologies fast
• Love for salads and burritos preferred, but not mandatory

Nice-to-have Qualifications

• Experience with analytics tools like Google Analytics or Mixpanel
• Solid understanding of SEO principles
• Experience with Javascript Unit Testing
• Experience with backend development and server-side languages such as Node or PHP
• Experience with various database systems, both in production and warehousing capacities, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB