About the Front-End Engineer Role

Freight Science is looking for a Front-End Engineer to help us build our cloud-native suite of products. You will use your skills in problem solving, teamwork, and coding to build novel and innovative solutions for the trucking industry. You will work with customers to understand their business and work with software engineers, designers, and data scientists to implement new features for the trucking industry. The ideal candidate has 5 years of experience in front-end web applications, but the role and responsibilities will be commensurate with experience.

Responsibilities

  • Develop visually appealing front-end website architecture, including implementing designer mock-ups and wireframes into front-end code
  • Within a small team, build web and back-end APIs to support front-end solutions
  • Ensure that non-functional requirements such as security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability are being considered when architecting solutions.
  • Work closely with customers to understand and solve industry problems
  • Embrace the ambiguity needed for innovation during solution discovery
  • Work in a high-ownership, self-motivated, and fast-paced environment

Location & commitments

  • This is a full-time position headquartered in St. Louis, MO
  • Freight Science offers flexible options for remote candidates with superb experience

Candidate requirements

  • Bachelor’s or higher Computer Science, Engineering, or other quantitative field preferred (advanced degrees are a plus)
  • Love building user-oriented front-end web applications
  • No fear attitude of exploring current systems and developing right-sized solutions
  • Solid software craftmanship skills including code reviews, unit and integration testing, software design and construction, iterative thinking, and problem decomposition
  • Technical skills: TypeScript, Node.js, React, HTML, CSS, Postgres

About Freight Science

The trucking industry is at the beginning of a dramatic transformation and how companies leverage their information assets will determine the winners and losers. Freight Science’s mission is simple – help front-line workers at large trucking companies make the best decision for their customers and their company, every time. Freight Science leverages a carrier’s existing technology investments and external data sources to drive decision support and decision automation. We are a culture that values collaboration and experimentation. At the core of Freight Science are our people. If you consider yourself an innovator, a learner, and have a passion for solving difficult problems in a fast-paced environment poised to disrupt the transportation industry, then we would love to have you join our team.