Frontend Developer
HeronAI
What You’ll Do
- Develop and maintain user-facing features.
- Collaborate closely with backend engineers to integrate APIs and optimize data flow for large-scale dashboards.
- Design scalable, reusable UI components that enhance the user experience.
- Work closely with customers and stakeholders to ensure our platform is intuitive and meets real-world needs.
- Optimize applications for speed and responsiveness, ensuring compatibility across devices and browsers.
- Contribute to design system development, maintaining consistency across our platform.
- Implement security best practices to protect user data and maintain compliance standards like SOC 2.
- Create intuitive, accessible, and responsive interfaces, ensuring compatibility across devices and browsers.
- Implement testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Cypress) to ensure high-quality and bug-free user experiences.
- Incorporate UI/UX design best practices, improving usability for accounting and fintech customers.
- Optimize performance for data-heavy interfaces, ensuring dashboards load quickly and efficiently.
What Makes This Role Exciting
- As one of our first hires, you’ll have the freedom to define how we build solutions.
- Choose the methodologies and tools that best meet our customers’ needs.
- Work on a high-growth platform backed by MIT, Harvard, Techstars, and Forbes-recognized innovation.
- Join us at an exciting time—we’ve grown our waitlist from 250 to 1,700 users in 10 months and recently secured $1.5M in seed funding.
- Solve critical gaps in the data analytics market and automate workflows for industries facing major workforce transformations.
Who You Are
- A professional with 3+ years of experience developing and scaling web applications.
- Experienced with TypeScript, Django and modern frontend development practices.
- Passionate about designing intuitive user interfaces that deliver exceptional user experiences.
- Familiar with state management libraries like Redux or similar.
- Adept at consuming and integrating RESTful APIs and working in cross-functional teams.
- Comfortable with testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Cypress) and ensuring code quality.
- Knowledgeable in accessibility standards (WCAG) and best practices for designing inclusive interfaces.
Exceptional Candidates Will Bring
- Experience building dashboards or data visualization tools for financial or analytics platforms.
- Familiarity with UI/UX design principles and tools like Figma or Sketch.
- A track record of optimizing performance for large-scale, data-heavy applications.
- An understanding of SOC 2 compliance and secure frontend development practices.
- A history of contributing to startup growth, particularly in scaling a product from MVP to industry leader.
- Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG) and best practices for inclusive design.
- Proficiency with design systems and tools like Figma or Sketch to maintain UI consistency.
What Good Looks Like
Q1 Targets:
- Develop a clean, intuitive dashboard interface that generates reports in under 1 minute.
- Deliver customizable widgets for dashboards tailored to QuickBooks and Google Sheets.
- Implement basic UX/UI design improvements to streamline user workflows.
Q2 Targets:
- Add support for Xero and HubSpot templates, with easy widget customization.
- Ensure frontend performance supports dashboard loads in under 1 second.
- Implement accessibility standards (WCAG) to improve usability across customer types.
Q3 Targets:
- Integrate advanced visualization capabilities for “Ask Jules” recommendations.
- Build editable action plans and downloadable PDFs for gap analyses.
- Improve widget customization features to enhance dashboard engagement by 20%.
Q4 Targets:
- Support advanced enterprise dashboard customization for SAP and Salesforce integrations.
- Enhance real-time collaboration features for multi-user dashboards.
- Deliver milestone engagement features (e.g., dashboard engagement score).
Why You’ll Love Working With Us
- Be part of a company that’s saving businesses hours every week and driving smarter growth.
- Work with a team of passionate innovators who see this as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change the game.
- Develop alongside some of the best minds in tech, with connections to MIT, Harvard, and Techstars.
- We believe in working hard, celebrating wins, lots of ‘Fika’, and building a strong team dynamic that fosters creativity and collaboration.