Senior Software Engineer (Frontend)

Happy Money is a consumer finance company seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Frontend) to design, build, and deploy consumer applications using React. The role involves working in a fully distributed team to deliver products for the lending business.

• Develop and build products that provide an exceptional customer experience for our members.
• Own design, test, development and delivery of new and existing features.
• Participate in all phases of the software development life cycle.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, business owners, and other engineers to identify the best solutions.
• Demonstrated experience driving engineering efficiency through the adoption of AI-driven coding agents and agentic workflows, to autonomously build, test, and ship complex React applications at scale.
• Experience implementing automated frontend testing for critical components and user workflows.
• Capable of working in isolation to design solutions to complex problems.
• Design and develop maintainable, scalable, fault-tolerant, and efficient systems.
• Upholding code quality to ensure features are up to standards to deliver a quality product.
• Prioritize team needs in technical debt and tooling to relieve operational load and evolve the system to meet the changing needs of the environment.
• Bring positive energy into meetings and ensure all coworkers feel valued and included in every interaction.
• Mentor other frontend engineers across the Engineering team.
• Demonstrate a proactive mindset by defaulting to action, taking initiative to address challenges, and driving projects forward.

• 5+ years building production React applications, with deep expertise in React, hooks, and component architecture at scale.
• Production experience developing in ReactJS, CSS, GraphQL, Javascript, NodeJS, and are a polyglot with working knowledge of Python, Java, and the ability to pick up new languages and technologies quickly.
• Delivering a product across the entire technology stack motivates you more than working in an individual silo of frontend or backend, but you have a stronger affinity and experience building frontend user interfaces and UI based SDKs for other developers.
• Believe strongly in testing everything you design and develop using automation.
• Ability to scope, scale, and prioritize tasks to help team project plan and deliver on their milestones, delivering results over clear and ambiguous business and technical projects.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• You are results-oriented, and know how to unblock yourself and others to achieve goals and objectives.
• Familiarity with AWS technologies - EC2, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, etc.
• You have production experience developing scalable/highly available consumer applications.
• You have a BA/Master degree in Computer Science or related field of study or equivalent work experience.

• Generous medical, dental, and vision insurance options
• Eligible for Annual Bonus
• 401k Plan with a matching contribution
• Generous PTO including sick leave, vacation, volunteer, and more
• 12 Weeks Paid Parental Leave
• Company-paid short & long term disability and life insurance
• Monthly tech stipend to help cover expenses for remote work
• Happy Money is a 100% fully distributed workforce
• Base Salary Range: $140,000 USD - $160,000 USD