UX Engineer

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When deploying applications in production, developers are forced to pick between two extremes: expensive yet simplistic platforms like Heroku, or complicated, do-it-all-yourself services like AWS. By contrast, Render makes it easy to get up and running quickly but also allows applications to scale and increase in complexity over time, preventing a transition to DIY infrastructure.


Our goal is to completely free up developers and teams from managing infrastructure. This will ultimately improve all software and enable entirely new kinds of applications.


We're building products that abstract over complexity and minimize cognitive overhead for our customers. This requires careful thought, high creativity and a deep understanding of application requirements in production. We believe that the best UX is invisible, and we strive to exceed customer expectations with a product that is incredibly intuitive and delightful, even in the tiniest of details. We're looking for engineers with high integrity, low ego, and an insatiable drive to learn.


Our platform serves over a billion requests every month and we have tens of thousands of users including Cypress.io, Bloomscape, NYU, and US presidential campaigns. We have product-market fit and rapidly increasing revenue, and we're backed by the same early stage investors behind Airbnb, Snap, and Stripe.


As a UX engineer at Render, you will take ownership of the interactions and experiences of tens of thousands of developers as they use our platform. You will build visually appealing and intuitive interfaces that make developers want to use Render even if they don't have a project to host on it.


You should already have a few years of experience building detailed product interactions and workflows. You should also have a keen understanding of UX design, and extensive experience collaborating with product and design teams in building complex frontend applications in React. Prior experience developing design systems is a plus.


Engineering at Render


We're a small team of world-class engineers. We have complete ownership for every project we take on and expect the same from you. We review all major code changes through pull requests, and are always pushing ourselves to do better. We iterate quickly and deploy to production several times a day.

What you will work on

  • You will work with the design team on Render's website and dashboard, continuously improving their visual appeal and ease of use.
  • You will collaborate with Render engineers to build user interfaces for upcoming products and features.
  • You will create high fidelity prototypes to help find solutions to thorny interaction problems.
  • You will create unit and integration tests for the frontend using tools like Jest and Enzyme, and end-to-end testing pipelines using tools like Cypress (a Render customer!)
  • You will help accelerate the JavaScript to TypeScript migration in our frontend codebase.
  • You will own the observability of user interactions and use this data to drive improvements across the board.
  • You will create a world class onboarding experience for Render users and continue to refine it based on data.

You are a great fit for this role if

  • You have a few years of professional experience shipping complex frontend applications and experiences. Bonus points if you’ve excelled at a small, high-growth startup.
  • You have a user-centric mindset and impressive attention to detail.
  • You are able to make the right design and engineering tradeoffs to ship great products at an impressive cadence.
  • You thrive in a collaborative environment and believe in direct, open and honest communication.
  • You are self-directed, curious by nature and an impressively quick learner.
  • You are unfazed by unfamiliar challenges and enjoy figuring things out on your own.
  • Bonus points for experience developing design systems and conducting user research.

  • The ideal candidate would check everything above but you should certainly apply if you identify with most of it.


    Please include a link to your portfolio in your resume so we can see example projects you've worked on.

Why join us

  • We're solving a problem faced by every developer and development team. It's a massive and rapidly growing market (AWS is privately valued at over $200B, and there are over 30 million professional developers globally).
  • Delightful UX is the one of the biggest differentiators for Render, and as our first UX engineer you will have tremendous impact on the product and company's trajectory.
  • Everyone wants to move their infrastructure to Kubernetes, but it's too complex for the average development team. Render makes it possible to get the power of Kubernetes without any of its complexity.
  • Top engineering leaders from VMware, Dropbox, Heroku and GitHub are some of our biggest investors and cheerleaders.
  • The company is led by Anurag Goel, who was employee #8 and Head of Risk at Stripe. He helped Stripe scale from 10 to over 400 people and is applying many of the same principles that helped Stripe succeed to Render.

Benefits we offer

  • Competitive cash and equity compensation with early exercise options and extended exercise windows.
  • 4 weeks of paid vacation, available from day one.
  • 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child. We will also work with you to create a supportive plan of return.
  • Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
  • 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent. FSAs available too.
  • Monthly wellness stipend.
  • Continuous learning benefits & related support.

How we're dealing with COVID

  • We are working remotely until it is safe to use public transportation and gather in groups again.
  • We encourage everyone to take a half day off from work every week, because we can all use some time off to manage the additional stress from the pandemic.

Working at Render


We value high integrity, low ego, an affinity for continuous learning, and the ability to figure things out quickly. We're always open to being wrong, and we love to improve our work through reasoned discussion and constant feedback. We trust and respect each other tremendously which makes doing all of this easy.


We'd love to hear from you!

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Technology we use

  • Engineering
    • GolangLanguages
    • JavascriptLanguages
    • TypeScriptLanguages
    • ReactLibraries
    • GraphQLFrameworks
    • KubernetesFrameworks
    • DockerFrameworks
    • PostgreSQLDatabases

Location

525 Brannan St., San Francisco, CA 94107

An Insider's view of Render

What's something quirky about your company?

From Aeropress to traditional coffee brewers, we believe in diverse methods of making coffee. We have about as many devices for making coffee as the number of employees. Despite that, there’s little attempt to convert others to a particular brew method. We keep it judgment-free, even for those that choose tea.

Elena

Software Engineer

What kinds of technical challenges do you and your team face?

Because we're a startup in a pretty unique space, engineers are exposed to problems that are truly interesting and require deep technical knowledge! We get to solve problems that range from cloud infrastructure quirks, to running untrusted user workloads, to designing features that make it easier for users to interact with their services.

Eric

Software Engineer

What does career growth look like on your team?

At fast-growing startups, Render included, career growth is constant since there is always more to do than people to do it. But Render combines that organic growth with thoughtful feedback and mentorship. We've held a 'feedback week', paired new hires with mentors, and have regular manager discussions to foster calibration and development ideas.

Alison

Head of People

What are Render Perks + Benefits

Render Benefits Overview

- Competitive cash and equity compensation with early exercise options and extended exercise windows.
- 4 weeks of paid vacation, available from day one.
- 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child. We will also work with you to create a supportive plan of return.
- Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
- 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent. FSAs available too.
- Monthly wellness stipend.
- Continuous learning benefits & related support.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Open door policy
Team based strategic planning
Pair programming
Open office floor plan
Hybrid work model
Flexible work schedule
Diversity
Highly diverse management team
Our engineering team is led by Uma Chingunde. Follow her on Twitter (@umanagineer)!
Mandated unconscious bias training
Unconscious bias, harassment, and inclusivity trainings are part of our onboarding process. All Renders complete the trainings within their first 30 days.
Diversity employee resource groups
Our #women Slack channel and happy hours are open to all!
Hiring practices that promote diversity
A thoughtful and respectful hiring process. This is not a gatekeeping exercise: we actively seek new perspectives to learn from regardless of background.
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Life Insurance & Long-term Disability: Render covers 100% of these premiums.
Dental insurance
Render covers 99% of dental premiums for employees and their dependents.
Vision insurance
Render covers 99% of vision premiums for employees and their dependents.
Health insurance
Blue Shield Base Plan, Gold PPO - Render covers 100% of the premiums for this plan for all employees and dependents.
Life insurance
Life Insurance & Long-term Disability: Render covers 100% of these premiums.
Wellness programs
Render provides a monthly stipend of $60.00 to subsidize your personal well-being (such as a gym membership, yoga classes, therapy, park fees, massage, etc— aka self-care).
Mental health benefits
Until the pandemic is over, we encourage employees to take a half-day off of work each week.
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
We offer employee's choice of traditional or Roth 401k plans.
Company equity
We've implemented an early-exercise program for all employees. This is designed to give everyone the most favorable tax treatment possible when their stock is eventually sold.
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Render will provide 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child. Once leave is complete, we'll work with you to create a supportive plan
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Generous PTO
Employees are entitled to 4 weeks per year of paid time off, available from day 1 and renewed each work anniversary. You don't need to use PTO for errands that take less than a full day.
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Sick time is accrued at a rate of one day per month.
Flexible time off
Floating holidays
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
A monthly stipend of $150.00. You will have full flexibility, feel free to use this on public transit passes, bike maintenance, parking, and/or Lyft rides to help you reach our SoMa office.
Company-sponsored outings
Free daily meals
Free snacks and drinks
Company-sponsored happy hours
Pet friendly
Relocation assistance
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Mother's room
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks
Paid industry certifications

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