Frontend Engineer

Overview

GiveCard builds infrastructure to magically move money to people who need it. Last year, 1 in every 300 households in the United States received financial assistance through GiveCard — including families who lost their homes in disasters, state benefit recipients, and survivors of domestic violence.

The Role

We’re hiring a Frontend Engineer to help build and improve the interfaces that power GiveCard — both for the organizations distributing funds and for the people receiving them.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role for someone with a few years of professional frontend experience who’s excited to ship real products, learn quickly, and see their work directly impact real people. You’ll work closely with product, design, and backend engineering to build accessible, reliable, and delightful user experiences across our admin platform and cardholder-facing web applications. We value shipping meaningful improvements quickly , learning from real user feedback, and iterating — you’ll see your work in production early and often.

We’re especially excited about candidates who care deeply about usability, accessibility, and building technology for people who are often overlooked.

This role is Remote, but you're welcome to work from our offices in New York and San Francisco whenever convenient.

How You’ll Impact The Company

• Build and ship frontend features used daily by enterprises, nonprofits, governments, and individuals receiving financial assistance through GiveCard.
• Work across multiple surfaces, including customer-facing admin tools and cardholder web applications, helping ensure a consistent and high-quality user experience.
• Ship iteratively and pragmatically, balancing speed and quality while continuously improving the product through real-world usage and feedback.
• Collaborate closely with designers and backend engineers to turn product ideas into polished, production-ready features.
• Contribute to and improve our frontend codebase by writing clean, maintainable TypeScript and Vue code.
• Help uphold high standards for accessibility, usability, and performance, ensuring our products work well for all users.
• Learn GiveCard’s product and technology stack quickly and take increasing ownership of frontend areas over time.

Requirements

• 2–3 years of professional experience building frontend applications. Experience working with Vue.js and TypeScript in production environments.
• Solid understanding of modern frontend fundamentals (component architecture, state management, APIs, etc.).
• Curiosity and openness to using modern tools, including AI, to work more effectively and ship faster.
• Experience building responsive, user-friendly interfaces.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with designers, product managers, and backend engineers.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving environment and learning new systems quickly.
• Strong attention to detail and pride in writing high-quality, production-ready code.
• A genuine interest in building technology that makes a positive impact.

Exceptional Candidates Will Have

• Experience building accessible web applications, including familiarity with accessibility best practices.
• Experience with the Vue Composition API and building highly organized and reusable components.
• Experience thriving in environments that favor iteration, ownership, and getting working software into users’ hands quickly.
• Strong intuition for usability and user-centered design.
• Experience working on complex, data-heavy frontend applications.
• Familiarity with modern frontend tooling and workflows (Vite, testing frameworks, linting, etc.).
• An allergy to assuming someone else will catch or solve issues; proactively takes initiative to identify, analyze, communicate, and drive improvements and fixes.
• Curiosity and eagerness to learn new technologies and improve as an engineer.
• A builder’s mindset — excitement about shipping features and seeing them used in the real world.

At GiveCard, You’ll Enjoy

• Working alongside very smart people on technology that genuinely matters.
• A remote-friendly work environment with a dog-friendly office in Manhattan.
• A minimum of 25 days of PTO.
• 100% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for you and your family.
• Generous parental leave.
• Expected compensation of $120,000 – $140,000, based on level and experience.

Compensation Range: $120K - $140K