Senior Front End Software Engineer

Senior Front End Software Engineer

Charlotte, NC

Who We Are

DebtBook is the financial platform powering treasury and capital markets across the public sector. State and local governments, public universities, health systems, and the bankers and advisors who serve them run trillions of dollars in debt, cash, and investments on DebtBook.

We've built the most sophisticated treasury platform in public finance — sitting at the intersection of treasury management and a $4 trillion fixed income market that's been waiting for modern infrastructure.

How We Work

• Our product is built on a Single Page App in React, TypeScript, and MUI, talking to a Ruby on Rails JSON API with PostgreSQL, all hosted in AWS. We ship through GitLab pipelines and use feature flags for continuous integration.
• Our engineers are full-stack — most lean one direction or the other, but everyone is comfortable across the stack.
• We have a small dedicated infrastructure team.
• Engineers work hand-in-hand with product managers, designers, and subject matter experts.
• Engineers lead projects before they're Senior. We coach people into leading planning, breakdown, and execution.
• Leaders don't do all the work — they do enough to know how to do it well, then coach and delegate.
• We don't expect perfect execution. We expect a willingness to try new things and to improve over time.

What You'll Do

As a Front-End Engineer at DebtBook, you'll be a specialist on a team of full-stack engineers — owning the quality, patterns, and direction of our front-end while keeping it deeply connected to the rest of the stack. You'll:

• Build and shape our front-end. Write thoughtful React/TypeScript code, contribute to design and usability decisions, and stay close to the middle stack — Rails controllers, simple queries, glue logic, and basic Rails testing — so the front-end never feels like a mysterious box to the rest of the team.
• Be a force multiplier. The measure of success for the front-end at DebtBook isn't what you ship — it's what you enable the whole team to ship.
• Improve how front-end work gets done. Sharpen our processes, tools, and patterns so we move faster without trading away quality.
• Coach and onboard. Train teammates on front-end best practices and help new engineers ramp up on the trickier parts of our UI.
• Drive AI-assisted development on the front-end. Use AI tools yourself across the SDLC, figure out what works best for our codebase, and help spread those practices across the team.
• Find simple patterns the whole team can adopt. We avoid complexity, even behind abstractions — back-end engineers should be able to read and reason about front-end work without surprises.
• Help us hire well. Partner on recruiting for engineers and designers, and flag the front-end and design skills the team is missing.
• Speak up when things aren't going well. We'd rather hear it early.

What You Bring

• 4+ years of software engineering experience
• Professional experience with React
• Comfort touching the back-end — even as a front-end specialist, you should be willing to dip into Rails controllers, queries, and tests when the work calls for it
• Experience with Ruby on Rails or SQL is a plus
• Experience with AI-assisted development, or genuine enthusiasm to go deep
• Comfort operating in a high-growth environment where priorities shift and scope evolves

Our "Goat" Values

Grow Continuously

• We believe in continuous improvement, never accepting the status quo as good enough, and iterating to move quickly without compromising on quality.
• We are energized by the fast-paced rate of change that growth demands and see new challenges as opportunities for resilience and personal development.
• We are driven by curiosity to think creatively, innovate, and experiment, and we humbly incorporate lessons learned from success and failure along the journey.

Own Your Outcomes

• We hold ourselves accountable for exceptional effort, execution, reliability, professionalism, and results that add tremendous value for customers.
• We are all individual contributors, responsible for delivering value to our customers, team, and company with every action we take.
• As managers, we lead by example in both what we do and how we do it, and stay personally familiar with the work as we coach our teams.
• We follow through on our decisions and commitments with action.

Above & Beyond

• We create moments of magic, surprising and delighting our customers at every touchpoint.
• We run towards problems and enthusiastically jump in to help colleagues however we can be valuable.
• We take pride in proactively doing the extra little things that set us apart, even when no one is watching.

Team Over Ego

• There is no task needed at DebtBook that is beneath any of us.
• We work hard to be the teammate others want on their team.
• We have the courage to have hard conversations and the grace to receive honest feedback in pursuit of excellence.

Why DebtBook

DebtBook is a fast-growing company where we dream big, move fast, make an impact, and bring joy to everything we do. Our core values drive our success as an organization, and we are looking for talented teammates who share our passion for challenging the status quo, innovating in all we do, and wanting to make a difference.

When it comes to benefits and perks, we are committed to supporting our employees' well-being to make their lives better, both in and out of the office. We offer:

• Location: Charlotte, NC — Hybrid (flexible). This role is not remote.
• Annual salary range is $125,000-160,000 based on experience
• Up to 10% annual bonus
• Equity (stock options) for all employees
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with 4% employer match
• Flexible work schedules and generous leave policies (including unlimited PTO)
• Professional development opportunities and tuition reimbursement
• Family and wellness perks
• In-person social events
• Top-of-the-line equipment, and a newly furnished office

Interview Process

• 30 min - Intro call
• 1 hr — Interview with an Engineering Manager (video call)
• Behavioral: projects you have worked on, how you work
• Technical: hands-on planning, review, and coding; AI in the SDLC
• 2 hr — Onsite with the team
• Meet the Product, Engineering, and Design team you would be working with
• Including some hands-on technical work with engineering

DebtBook is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and prohibit discrimination and unlawful harassment in the workplace. All applicants will receive consideration for employment based upon their qualifications without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, marital status, genetic information, political affiliation, National Guard or veteran status, disability, or any other protected status under federal, state, or local law. We welcome and encourage applicants with disabilities to contact our team for assistance during the application and hiring process. We are committed to expanding accessibility and making reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law.