Frontend Engineer

GiveCard builds infrastructure to help people receive financial assistance. They are seeking a Frontend Engineer to build and improve user interfaces for organizations distributing funds and for individuals receiving them, focusing on usability and accessibility.

Responsibilities:

• Build and ship frontend features used daily by enterprises, nonprofits, governments, and individuals receiving financial assistance through GiveCard
• Work across multiple surfaces, including customer-facing admin tools and cardholder web applications, helping ensure a consistent and high-quality user experience
• Ship iteratively and pragmatically, balancing speed and quality while continuously improving the product through real-world usage and feedback
• Collaborate closely with designers and backend engineers to turn product ideas into polished, production-ready features
• Contribute to and improve our frontend codebase by writing clean, maintainable TypeScript and Vue code
• Help uphold high standards for accessibility, usability, and performance, ensuring our products work well for all users
• Learn GiveCard’s product and technology stack quickly and take increasing ownership of frontend areas over time

Requirements:

• 2–3 years of professional experience building frontend applications
• Experience working with Vue.js and TypeScript in production environments
• Solid understanding of modern frontend fundamentals (component architecture, state management, APIs, etc.)
• Curiosity and openness to using modern tools, including AI, to work more effectively and ship faster
• Experience building responsive, user-friendly interfaces
• Ability to collaborate effectively with designers, product managers, and backend engineers
• Comfort working in a fast-moving environment and learning new systems quickly
• Strong attention to detail and pride in writing high-quality, production-ready code
• A genuine interest in building technology that makes a positive impact
• Experience building accessible web applications, including familiarity with accessibility best practices
• Experience with the Vue Composition API and building highly organized and reusable components
• Experience thriving in environments that favor iteration, ownership, and getting working software into users' hands quickly
• Strong intuition for usability and user-centered design
• Experience working on complex, data-heavy frontend applications
• Familiarity with modern frontend tooling and workflows (Vite, testing frameworks, linting, etc.)
• An allergy to assuming someone else will catch or solve issues; proactively takes initiative to identify, analyze, communicate, and drive improvements and fixes
• Curiosity and eagerness to learn new technologies and improve as an engineer
• A builder's mindset — excitement about shipping features and seeing them used in the real world