Front-End Developer role at Arpio in Durham

Arpio is building the next generation of disaster recovery for the cloud.

Modern enterprises face a growing list of threats to their cloud applications, including outages and ransomware. With the increasing complexity of cloud-native environments, building and managing disaster recovery environments is challenging, time consuming, and full of risks. Arpio has built the best in class SaaS offering that makes it easier than ever to protect entire AWS workloads from catastrophic downtime.

Behind the scenes, we are a small but mighty team (YCombinator W21) who love to tackle hard problems and learn new things. We are fired up about working together to build and grow an innovative new product and company from the ground up.

Arpio was recently recognized in Gartner’s 2023 Hype Cycle in the emerging Cloud Infrastructure Recovery Assurance Software category and leads G2’s ranking in customer satisfaction.

About the Role
As our first dedicated Front-End Developer, you will play a critical role in the design, development, and testing of Arpio’s SaaS web applications.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop new and existing user-facing components of our SaaS web applications
• Define and set the technical design for the user-interface, keeping in mind user experience and efficient software development design
• Identify and fix bugs to maintain the reliability of current systems
• Leverage your expertise in UI and UX design to optimize the Arpio user experience
• Advise the larger team on front-end development and product strategy decisions

What We’re Looking For

• You have 5+ years of experience as a Software Developer with a focus on front-end development, preferably for SaaS products using a modern, component-based web stack like Angular, React, Vue, etc. (we use Angular)
• You have natural empathy for your users, and a desire to deliver a first-class customer experience
• You have the ability to take on a leadership role in advocating for best practices around front-end development, UX, and testing
• You are comfortable with the fast-paced, agile environment of an early stage company and excited about the opportunities it presents
• You are comfortable working with a distributed team, and are able to proactively communicate and collaborate with peers to remove roadblocks and progress your work

Nice to Have

• Experience creating wireframes, mockups, and other design assets
• Experience working at a startup

Salary and Benefits

• Competitive salary and company equity package

• Fully employer-paid health benefits package; 75% employer-paid dental, vision and life insurance

• Unlimited PTO policy

• Small, collaborative team environment with lots of autonomy

• Opportunity to learn and work on the cutting edge of cloud technology