Senior Front End Engineer

M.Gemi, headquartered in Boston, MA along with offices in New York, Florence, and Italy is redefining the luxury products industry by leveraging the uniqueness of Italian manufacturing combined with a technology and data driven predictive supply chain engine.  By challenging the long standing design and manufacturing process, we are delivering new products to market in record time and selling direct to the consumer through a state of the art digital platform as well as physical showrooms.  As the only brand in the world that delivers new collections of luxury shoes every week, we have a loyal and rapidly growing customer base.

Recently named one of Boston’s “50 on Fire” and backed by top tier venture capital firms, M. Gemi is a fast growing direct to consumer start-up with a passion for using technology to reinvent and accelerate eCommerce.

We leverage best-of-breed internal and external technologies, coupled with data science and analytics - of which the result is a disruptive business model that creates an exceptional omni-channel customer experience and a revolutionary data driven supply chain operation.

Our team of data scientists, engineers, product managers, analysts, supply chain experts, multi-generational Italian shoemakers, and passionate creatives are reinventing online consumer shopping experiences, supply chain, experiential retail and accessible luxury.

The Role

• Work with our small, yet talented engineering team to improve our world-class e-commerce experience on a number of channels including mobile and responsive web
• Help our team realize a vision of a true omnichannel client experience: both online and in non-traditional physical retail settings
• Leverage big data to help the business solve eCommerce challenges and opportunities from both consumer and manufacturing perspectives
• Facilitate the flow of information by our Data Science team that is so essential to shaping our business decisions
• Assist in the development of bleeding edge single-page applications to support our client engagement initiatives
• Help define the future of our end-to-end architecture and identify opportunities for positive change
• Gain an understanding of our business, clients, and our domain allowing you to use your judgment and make autonomous decisions 

Requirements

About You: 

• Have 4+ years of experience building responsive web applications optimized for desktop, tablet, and mobile form factors
• Care immensely about the user’s experience and believe in iterating quickly based on data and feedback
• Are always learning and teaching, and look for opportunities to help your team improve
• Have experience evaluating and integrating a variety of technologies, including open source components
• Want to build something you’re proud of that customers love
• Enjoy contributing to the open source community, blog, and talk about your work with peers
• Are interested in the transparency behind brands and the opportunity to innovate in consumer industries that are ripe for disruption
• Have experience with frameworks and technologies like React, Inferno, Vue, nodeJS, PostgreSQL, selenium, mocha

Benefits 

What’s in it for You?

• Impact: work with various groups in the company to solve a range of challenging problems that have not been questioned in the industry using the power of technology
• Opportunity: we are still early stage so you define opportunity. We have technical challenges, mentoring opportunities, and great exposure to stakeholders and clients
• Forward momentum: an impactful role in a well-funded startup by top tier VCs.
• Continuous learning: you’ll be joining the company early so there are lots of challenges for you to have a meaningful impact on as we learn and solve them together
• Love of la dolce vita: celebrating the many special and inspiring aspects of Italian culture
• An artistic mission: believe and support the tradition of old world artisans and craftsmanship
• Building team culture: impact and help shape our corporate culture