LeafLink Looking for Senior Frontend Engineer at New York, NY Full Time

LeafLink is the largest unified B2B cannabis platform, providing licensed cannabis businesses a suite of tools to manage their business more effectively, sell or order from their favorite brands and accelerate growth. We are one platform, one solution and we’re defining the way thousands of cannabis brands, distributors and retailers streamline their operations. With thousands of brands and retailers across 30+ markets in North America, we are setting the industry standard for how cannabis businesses grow together. LeafLink processes more than $4.4 billion in wholesale cannabis orders annually.

Our team, backed by funding from leading VC’s, including Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, Nosara Capital, and Lerer Hippeau is poised to define the cannabis supply chain through technology. LeafLink was named one of Inc. 5000’s ‘Top 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies’, one of Built In NYC’s ‘Best Places to Work in 2021’, as well as one of Fast Company’s ‘Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Enterprise for 2020’, joining the ranks of Amazon, Slack, and VMWare – and we’re just getting started!

The Role

LeafLink is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer who is passionate about working on teams that solve interesting, large-scale problems at a rapid pace. This role will contribute heavily to the buildout and iteration of LeafLink’s existing and emerging systems, powering an ever-expanding set of product offerings. As a member of our engineering team, you will have a direct, lasting impact everywhere that technology powers our business.

LeafLink places a heavy emphasis on its enterprise products and is looking for a talented engineer to join a growing team within the company that can identify, concept, and quickly iterate continuous improvement to the marketplace experience for our daily users. This role has the opportunity to help shape and grow this focused team, working within new and emerging technologies. It’s an exciting time to join our engineering team!

Ideal candidates for this position should possess a keen mind for solving challenging problems with creative solutions, partnering effectively with various team members. They should be personable, efficient, flexible, and communicative, possess a strong desire to implement change, growth, and maturity, and have a passion and love for their work. This role comes with the opportunity to be a high performer within a fast-paced, dynamic, and quickly growing department.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Help shape and grow enterprise experiences on our platform, leveraging a growing set of tools to build product experiences our users love
• Lead by example for other members of the team as a dedicated, passionate, and flexible technologist who is constantly looking for the ideal solution to a problem
• Work with our UX team to build consistent, responsive, and highly reusable widgets as components throughout our applications
• Play a pivotal role in informing the direction of our shared component library through use and iteration within enterprise-specific use cases
• Be involved with critical software design decisions that will have a lasting impact on LeafLink’s platform and products
• Keep up to date on modern technologies and trends and advocate for their inclusion within products when it makes sense
• Work collaboratively with multiple agile teams to help deliver end-to-end products and features, seeing them through from conception to delivery
• Be uncompromising in your path to the delivery of beautiful UI/UX experiences
• Be able to troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve issues quickly and effectively when they arise
• Provide technical guidance and help mentor engineering, QA, operations, and product staff to deliver the best possible solutions for the company
• Help define, document, evolve, and evangelize high engineering standards and best practices across multiple areas
• Move quickly and intelligently – seeing technical debt as your nemesis

What You’ll Bring To The Team

• 5+ years working in rich, complex, and ever-evolving front-end user experiences
• Proven track record of practical, thoughtful problem solving
• Extensive experience working within e-commerce products, including frameworks (Shopify, Magento, Commerce Cloud, etc.) and within proprietary systems
• Extensive experience working with HTML and modern Javascript frameworks
• Extensive experience and a deep understanding of CSS, including preprocessors
• Experience working in and advocating for agile environments
• Extensive experience working with highly responsive web applications
• Experience working with Vue.js directly is a plus
• Familiarity with the concept of state-management libraries (Redux, Vuex, Mobx, etc.)
• Advanced experience with client-side unit testing and associated tools (Jest, Sinon, Chai, etc.)
• Experience building applications and working with underlying systems that work within fully containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus
• Well-versed in version control systems (Git)
• Being an active member of the open source and New York tech community is a plus
• An interest in the cannabis industry and/or the LeafLink brand

LeafLink Perks & Benefits

• Flexible PTO – you’re going to be working hard so enjoy time off with no cap!
• A robust stock option plan to give our employees a direct stake in LeafLink’s success
• 5 Days of Volunteer Time Off (VTO) – giving back is important to us and we want our employees to prioritize cultivating a better community
• Competitive compensation and 401k
• Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision)
• Commuter Benefits through our Flexible Spending Account

LeafLink’s employee-centric culture has earned us a coveted spot on BuiltInNYC’s Best Places to Work for in 2021 list. Learn more about LeafLink’s history and the path to our First Billion in Wholesale Cannabis Orders here.

Base salary range

$175,000—$220,000 USD