Front-End Developer

CommonBond is building the leading values-driven, customer-centric financial services company and is looking for people who want to help our company grow. Our mission starts by tackling the broken student lending market and changing the way people think about student loans. We accomplish this with lower interest rates for our borrowers, a state-of-the art technology platform, and high-touch customer service.

We're looking for a highly motivated and talented front-end developer with entrepreneurial instincts, a strong sense of product, and a desire to build something from the ground up. We're rapidly growing our technology and product teams and this role will influence our product development across the business. The ideal candidate will have strong and demonstrated knowledge of design principles and usability, and be comfortable driving the user experience in collaboration with the rest of the team.

* Collaborate in designing, building, and testing world-class web applications * Work across product, marketing, legal, business development, and operations teams to build and improve our core products * Work across the team to understand the user experience and how to optimize experiences and processes to achieve our business goals * Design and implement web and mobile pages * Anticipate the user experience and contribute to entire product development process, including spec development and QA * This role will focus on front-end development, though knowledge of back end functionality is required

* 4-7 years' experience, ideally with most of that time at a company (rather than freelancing) * Proficiency in HTML, CSS, Javascript required * Proficiency with a CMS (especially WordPress) a plus * Familiarity with PHP or a similar enterprise-class scripting language a plus * Portfolio of work that ideally includes projects where you took the lead on the design and implementation of the design * Excellent eye for design and strong UX design skills * Passionate about our mission to make student's lives easier and disrupt finance in the process * Ability to work in a complex environment and prioritize among competing demands