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We are looking for a Staff Front-end Engineer with deep expertise in React and React Native to act as a pillar of technical excellence across our engineering organization. You will maintain the technical vision for our front-end domains, advise executive leadership on strategic direction, and drive complex cross-team initiatives that enable Craver to scale. This role is for a technical leader who multiplies their impact by upskilling others and solving the most ambiguous problems our engineering team encounters.
About Us

Craver is a leading provider of custom-branded mobile apps for the restaurant industry, specializing in features like loyalty & rewards, subscription services, and single tap reordering. We are dedicated to transforming customer engagement for quick-service restaurants and coffee shops, working with local brands such as Stumptown Coffee, Rook and Go Get Em Tiger, as well as many other restaurants across North America,

As we scale rapidly, we need a Senior Software Engineer who can manage technical aspects across multiple epics, interface with other teams, and provide the technical leadership necessary to take our platform to the next level.
What you'll do
Technical Vision & Strategy

Domain Leadership: Develop and maintain a technical vision and roadmap for the front-end (React/React Native) domain.
Strategic Advisory: Advise executive leadership on technical direction, risks, and solutions.
Architectural Excellence: Act as a pillar for high-quality code and engineering practices, anticipating and mitigating technical challenges across multiple teams.
Innovation: Identify, design, and lead the build-out of automation for the most complex problems at Craver.

Execution & Cross-Team Impact

Drive Initiatives: Coordinate and drive complex cross-team projects, ensuring interdepartmental collaboration runs smoothly.
Problem Solving: Disambiguate sophisticated problems, leveraging qualitative and quantitative inputs to adjust direction and provide clarity for the organization.
Operational Health: Establish and maintain operational best practices, driving production excellence and high-quality incident management.
Hands-on Contribution: Continue to contribute substantially to code and technical solutions, creating high-quality, tested, and loosely coupled solutions efficiently.

Mentorship & Culture

Multiply Impact: Mentor and train engineers up to and including the Senior level, coaching them on technical practices and agile mechanisms.
Culture Carrier: Shape and foster a great engineering environment, modeling technical and professional excellence across the company.
Leadership Support: Mentor team leads and hold them accountable to a high engineering bar and productivity.

Requirements
Who you are
Technical Expertise

Expert Architect: Mastery of React, React Native, and front-end architectural patterns (SOLID, DDD, Hexagonal Architecture).
System Thinker: Deep experience in distributed systems design and maintaining CI/CD infrastructure and release management systems.
Quality Advocate: An expert in automated testing (unit, integration, acceptance) who leads teams in practices that reduce failure demand.

Leadership & Collaboration

Transparent Leader: Provides straightforward, truthful advice to leadership and shares both good and bad news to enable optimal business decisions.
Empathetic Mentor: Models a respectful and professional environment, proactively creating trust and transparency in all dealings.
Agile Champion: Internalized Agile disciplines, leading continuous improvement efforts and driving team-level impact for the business.

Requirements

Experience: Typically 10+ years of professional software development experience with a proven track record of cross-team impact.
Domain Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in React and React Native.
Leadership: Demonstrated experience advising executive teams and leading large-scale technical initiatives.
Education: Strong foundation in computer science and software engineering patterns and principles.

What We Value

Ownership: You exercise ownership over all aspects of engineering work and step up to help in crises.
Continuous Learning: You create and integrate learning throughout engineering life at Craver.
Pragmatism: You understand what is ideal versus what is possible, making high-value decisions with strong judgment.

Benefits
Working with us

Close-knit team practicing empathy, compassion, and mutual support
Remote-first, hybrid environment with Downtown Vancouver office
Flexible hours - we value contribution and output
Professional development support including training and conferences
Generous benefits including prescription drug coverage, massage, and dental
Stock option plan - participate in our success
On-call rotation with strong operational support

Compensation Range

Base salary: $150,000 - $200,000
How to Apply
Resume Tips:

Share your experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring teams
Highlight cross-team collaboration and business impact of your work
Include examples of architectural decisions and their outcomes
Share your Github and personal projects
Focus on both technical excellence and leadership impacts
1-2 pages is plenty

If you're excited about technical leadership, driving team excellence, and making a significant business impact through engineering, we want to hear from you - even if you don't check every box!

Craver

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