Frontend Engineer, Ecommerce

UrbanStems is a modern floral and gifting company designed for thoughtful people. Founded in 2014 in Washington, DC, UrbanStems has become a leader in the space with our expressive bouquets, plants and gift options. From coast-to-coast next day delivery to same-day courier service in NYC and DC, we are helping people stay connected. 

Named one of Inc. 500’s fastest-growing companies in 2019, UrbanStems has launched brand partnerships with Vogue, Bumble, JCrew and more. We offer a collaborative and open working environment with ample opportunity to grow and learn.

We’re looking for a thoughtful, motivated, and experienced Frontend Engineer to join our growing NYC or DC team. If you’re the right one for us, you take great pride in your work and are at ease working within an agile environment. You can take designs and create pixel perfect versions in code, and have a knack for creating a seamless user experience. You have complete awareness as to what makes a phenomenal user experience, and are able to put this into practice.

The Gig

• Translate company and consumer needs into functional and compelling consumer experiences
• Structure our current frontend code in a more visually consistent manner that encourages the building of more accessible and user friendly interfaces
• Contribute clean, scalable, reliable and high quality production code to the UrbanStems consumer-facing website
• Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of our current code 
• Collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to wireframe concepts and apply learnings from analytics to improve site conversion rate and consumer satisfaction 
• Provide guidance and mentorship to less experienced engineers through code reviews, peer debugging sessions, and by contributing to guidelines and best practices for how we work

About You

• You adapt to new technology quickly and are always looking for opportunities to hone your skills in a fast paced work environment
• Experience writing clean, accessible, performant, and beautiful HTML and CSS
• Fluent in JavaScript and jQuery
• Experience in Salesforce Commerce Cloud or other similar ecommerce frameworks (i.e. Magento, Shopify) is strongly preferred but not necessary
• Strong ability to communicate effectively across technical and non-technical teams
• Strong organizational and time management skills; ability to shift gears quickly and effectively
• We’re a small, lean team; a desire to take ownership of tasks and projects is a must

We value diversity at UrbanStems. We welcome and employ individuals regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, genetic information, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.