Front End Software Engineer

Location: Waltham, MA (hybrid)

ERGO NEXT's mission is to help entrepreneurs thrive. We’re doing that by building the only technology-led, full-stack provider of small business insurance in the industry, taking on the entire value chain and transforming the customer experience. 

Simply put, wherever you find small businesses, you’ll find ERGO NEXT.

Since 2016, we’ve helped hundreds of thousands of small business customers across the United States get fast, customized and affordable coverage. We’re backed by industry leaders in insurance and tech, and we still have room to grow — that’s where you come in.

As an engineering growth engineering group, you’ll not only get deep into coding on a day-to-day basis, but you will be in a position to drive technical decisions, mentor other developers, and influence the future of our front-end vision and technologies. If you are fanatical about growing your skills this is the role for you. Do you enjoy creating something new and solving problems in ways that have never been attempted? Do you want to grow your career by working side-by-side with trailblazing software engineers? Do you see yourself in a culture where you are valued, challenged, and respected?

What You’ll Do:

• Leverage AI and LLM-powered tools to improve developer productivity, experimentation, and front-end user experiences.
• Design and develop dynamic, responsive, and interactive web applications
• Translate requirements, wireframes, and conceptual designs into high quality, visually appealing, and intuitive user interfaces and user experiences
• Take ownership of front-end components and drive continual expansion, reuse, and improvement across the board
• Integrate with back-end infrastructure, mostly cloud-based
• Analyze and solve problems across all levels of the stack
• Produce clean, secure, testable, maintainable, reusable, well-documented code, and participate in and drive regular code reviews
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability

What We Need:

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject or equivalent demonstrated experience
• 3+ years of experience with web application development
• Understanding of design principles and user interface guidelines
• Mastery of modern web development (Javascript, HTML5, CSS3)
• Stay up to date with modern industry tools and emerging technologies, including AI-driven frameworks and workflows, and help evaluate how they can be applied effectively.
• Demonstrated success building dynamic, responsive applications using Angular, RxJS, Node
• Demonstrated success developing and consuming APIs and microservices to facilitate data access, business logic, and workflow (RESTful services, JSON, GraphQL)
• Experience with SQL Server, MySQL

Unstoppable Qualities:

• You are passionate about coding
• You care equally about what should be done and how it should be done
• You know how to start and finish
• You are able to deliver on time
• You are awesome with people
• You make things as simple as possible but not simpler
• You never stop improving

The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire base salaries for the position in the location(s) listed. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including, without limitation, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. ERGO NEXT employees are also potentially eligible for our annual performance-based incentive program, in addition to our benefits package, consisting of our partially subsidized medical plan, fully subsidized vision/dental options, life insurance, disability insurance, 401(k), flexible paid time off, parental leave and more.