Sr. Front-End / UI Engineer
- Full-time
Company Description
Pinto (pinto.co) is building the smartest product database and analytics platform in food, grocery, and nutrition, with a mission of making product data fully personalized, transparent, and easily searchable for both consumers and businesses alike. Over 66% of Americans now choose products based on personal health needs (think Keto, No Added Sugar, Plant-Based, Heart Healthy, No Dairy, Diabetes Management, etc etc), and the Pinto data platform is organizing the world of products at scale across every personalized dimension that matters to these modern consumers (diets, ingredients, allergies/intolerances, nutrition goals, personalized health needs, and much more). The era of personalization is here and we’re building Pinto to power it 🍓📊.
We’re now looking for Full Stack Software Engineers to join our growing engineering team. In this role, you’ll work across the Pinto stack to contribute to and improve Pinto’s Web-based data platform, a suite of technologies and tools used to create, process, classify, visualize and make sense of complex food product data and analytics.
Ideal candidates will be comfortable leading initiatives from ideation to planning, prototyping, execution, shipping, and iteration. We use a variety of tools, technologies, and languages to build software including ES6 JavaScript/TypeScript, React/React Native, Redux, Webpack, Node.JS, GraphQL and MongoDB.
This is an amazing opportunity for someone looking to join in the early stages of a rapidly growing technology startup solving a meaningful problem in food and the broader world of personalization in nutrition and consumer products.
Job Description
You’ll use your skills to help solve real-world problems, while learning about the food, consumer products, and personalized nutrition ecosystem
You’ll work on the front-end of the Pinto Web stack using tools like React, GraphQL, Sass, and similar
You’ll build interfaces and tools to display, process, and update data on the Pinto platform
You’ll work on creating Web-based tools around our core data platform, which processes large, complex data sets from a variety of sources
You’ll envision and create tools that contribute to and enhance our end-to-end data pipeline
You’ll envision and contribute to internal data and insights tools that support our operations, research and business teams.
You’ll work with our Research, Nutrition, & Data Analyst teams to gain a deep knowledge of underlying use cases in food data, consumer products, and nutrition
You’ll work with our Business team to implement Web-based landing pages, internal tools, and other business collateral
You'll brainstorm with Product Managers and Designers to conceptualize new features
You’ll contribute to the ongoing evolution of the Pinto Web stack
Qualifications
5+ years of client-side JavaScript experience
2+ years of production experience with React
Desire to solve real life problems with tech
A passion for building intuitive user interfaces
Comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment
Self-aware and have a desire to learn and improve
Bonus points for
Example of code projects you’ve worked on (e.g. GitHub, BitBucket)
Understanding of how to optimize React/JS code for performance
Experience with or strong interest in data visualization
Experience with Node.js, Apollo/GraphQL, Webpack, MongoDB
Experience working with React Native
Strong communication skills
Additional Information
Pinto (pinto.co) is building the smartest product database and analytics platform in food, grocery, and CPG. Our mission is to make the world of products optimized, searchable, and personalized for today's consumers (66% of whom now shop around personal health needs — think Keto, No Added Sugar, Plant-Based, Heart Health, No Dairy, etc etc.). We're the "system of record" that's powering personalized, preference-driven shopping.
At Pinto, we believe consumers should be able to easily find products according to their individual needs, and our data platform is solving this by digitizing and classifying the world of products across every consumer preference — from every allergen and intolerance to key lifestyles and diets (like Vegan, Paleo, Keto, Gluten Free), rising health conditions (like Diabetes Management, Heart Health, etc.), certifications, sustainability preferences, nutrition and ingredient preferences, and so much more.
The era of personalization is here and we’ve built Pinto to power it🍓📊.
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Customer case studies:
-- Whole Foods Market: https://pinto.co/customers/#whole-foods-market
-- Kroger: https://pinto.co/customers/#kroger
Example of searches we power in production:
-- Find all Keto Snacks: https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/search?text=keto+snacks
-- Find all Gluten-free crackers that are kosher: https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/search?text=kosher+gluten-free+crackers
-- Find all Vegan meat substitutes: https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/search?text=vegan+meat
-- Find all Dairy-free yogurts: https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/search?text=dairy+free+yogurt
-- Find all Pasta Sauces with No Added Sugars: https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/search?text=pasta+sauce&diets=sugar-conscious
Examples of “personalized/curated” aisles created from our data:
-- Make my store Keto: https://bit.ly/3fmDoW7
-- Make my store Vegan: https://bit.ly/3eo1YVc
-- Make my store Paleo: https://bit.ly/3elK5Gx