FRONT END REACT ENGINEER (Contract)

Location: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Dominican Republic

Job Description

Counterpart is a modern management & professional liability insurance platform for the 21st century workplace. We offer products and services to help companies align the risks and incentives of creating great organizations. Our platform is designed to measure risk more efficiently using the most advanced rating system in the industry, while also proactively mitigating the risks of our insureds. Ultimately, we provide businesses with the framework to be the best versions of themselves. That’s where you come in.

As a Front-End React Engineer, you will be a prolific individual contributor to the user-facing features, design systems, and front-end tooling that are shaping the future of insurance. You will collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Data teams to create intuitive and dynamic user experiences in a ready-to-disrupt industry. Additionally, you will play a pivotal role in establishing the culture, rituals, and processes that enable a high-functioning engineering team and support the growth of the organization.

YOU WILL

Reimagine Insurance Application Workflows: Build modern and scalable React-based interfaces to enhance and streamline workflows, ensuring the best possible user experience for our Risk Engineering team.
AI-Powered Front-End Innovation: Collaborate with Data and Risk Engineering teams to leverage AI tools, delivering actionable insights via robust and intuitive user interfaces.
Empower Small Businesses with HR Solutions: Expand and refine our HR application’s front-end capabilities to support its next phase of growth, ensuring scalability and a user-centric approach.
Support Emerging Products: Develop user interfaces for new tools that empower our Claims team to handle complex cases across diverse insurance lines, improving efficiency and clarity.
Set Standards for Excellence: Work with engineering leaders to define and document best practices, reusable components, and workflows for our React, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS codebases, ensuring consistency and quality across the team as we scale.

YOU HAVE

A passion for creating exceptional user interfaces and experiences.
4+ years of experience with React.
2+ years of experience with Typescript.
Expertise is using Tailwind CSS or similar frameworks to build responsive, scalable designs.
Proficiency with state management libraries (e.g., Redux, Zustand, or Context API).
Experience integrating RESTful APIs into front-end applications.
Strong understanding of front-end workflows, build tools, and performance optimization.
Effective communication and documentation skills.
Experience working in a remote, collaborative team environment.
Bonus: familiarity with back-end technologies like Django REST Framework or Python.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

Derrick Franco, Engineering Manager: After teaching himself to code at 13, Derrick went on to co-found Jumpstart in addition to building out the technical divisions at InvestorsAlley and Phinaz Media Group. Nowadays Derrick spends his time reading, with his wife, and working on his podcast The Future of Work Project.
Julian Prokay, Engineering Manager: A veteran of the SaaS space with experience working on both student systems and construction management software. In his free time, he enjoys history podcasts and fantasy literature.
Ron Alexessen, Engineering Manager: Ron has experience at large companies like Hewlett-Packard, New Relic, and Rackspace and feels most impactful at small firms and startups. Embracing a chaordic style, both at work and home, is just right. For balance, Ron climbs, runs, and plays a supporting role for his active teenagers.
David Drake, Engineering Manager: David combines a theatre degree, a programming degree, and 17 years of professional software experience to bring heart and technical expertise to his engineering teams. A former founder with a Commodore 64 tattoo, he balances his passion for technology with time spent with his partner and 9-year-old daughter, as well as hobbies like reading, meditation, cooking, and exploring the outdoors.
Newton Troung, Engineering Manager: Newton joins Counterpart with 7+ years of experience in platform and data engineering. In his last company Thrive Market, he had a hand in building out new microservices and architecting data pipelines with Airflow and Spark. He's vegetarian and loves trying new restaurants when traveling. Nowadays he's busy keeping up with his 2-year-old and doing outdoor activities with his family.

COUNTERPART'S VALUES

Conjoin Expectations - it is the cornerstone of autonomy. Ensure you are aware of what is expected of you and clearly articulate what you expect of others. 
Speak Boldly & Honestly - the only failure is not learning from mistakes. Don’t cheat yourself and your colleagues of the feedback needed when  expectations aren’t being met. 
Be Entrepreneurial - control your own destiny.  Embrace action over perfection while navigating any obstacles that stand in the way of your ultimate goal. 
Practice Omotenashi (“selfless hospitality”) - trust will follow.  Consider every interaction with internal and external partners an opportunity to develop trust by going above and beyond what is expected. 
Hold Nothing As Sacred - create routines but modify them routinely.  Take the time to reflect on where the business is today, where it needs to  go, and what you have to change in order to get there. 
Prioritize Wellness - some things should never be sacrificed. We create an environment that stretches everyone to grow and improve, which is fulfilling, but is only one part of a meaningful life.

WE OFFER

Work from Anywhere - Counterpart is a fully distributed company, meaning there is no office. We allow employees to work from wherever they do their best work, of course prioritizing meetings that often happen in US time zones.
Language Classes - We sponsor up to $100 per calendar year to be used towards language classes to help support your English language skills.
Paid Vacation and Time Off
Parental Leave - Development Partners will be eligible for unpaid Parental Leave to bond with a newborn, newly-adopted, or newly placed child. Under this policy, development partners and independent contractors will be eligible for up to 8 weeks of unpaid parental leave. Any time off will be subject to approval and must be requested at least 45 days in advance.
Computer - We reimburse you for your locally procured Macbook Pro. If you are still with the company after one year, it is yours to keep!

Our estimated pay range for this role is USD $75,000 - $90,000 annually. Contractor compensation is determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to, market data, location, internal equitability, and experience.

We are committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against qualified applicants or employees on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, rule, or regulation.

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