Frontend Software Engineer (React) - São Paulo (Contract)

First Help Financial (FHF) is a fast-growing and culturally diverse company in the U.S. We provide auto loans to the underserved and care for our customers and partners with exceptional service. Through flexible financing options and tri-lingual support, we offer consumers an easier way to finance their first car. We lend to and support our portfolio which has consistently grown 30%+ each year over the last nine years.


Here you will find hard-working colleagues who come from over 20 countries. We hold ourselves to the highest standards of professionalism but also enjoy our work. Our culture and benefits are geared towards making you successful in life and comfortable at work.

Your Title: Frontend Software Engineer.

Your Location: Hybrid/Brazil HQ address - Nações Unidas 12901 - São Paulo - SP (required to go to the office once a week)

You Report To: Engineering Manager

Learn more about our awesome Engineering team

About the Opportunity:

First Help Financial, recently voted as a " Great Place to Work " for the fifth year in a row is seeking a Frontend Software Engineer to join our highly skilled and innovative team. First Help Financial is embarking on a new growth phase involving multiple game-changing projects.

What you will do:

Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Designs and develops major functional or performance enhancements for existing products or produces new software products or tools.
• Becoming a subject matter expert for our Loan Origination Systems with an ability to explain and improve complicated code bases and assist with troubleshooting complex problems.
• Work closely with stakeholders in various internal groups to help balance delivery speed and quality.
• Mentor and train junior developers to maximize team velocity.
• You will be a developer on an Agile team, working closely with Product Owner, Scrum Master, and other engineers, to review and qualify business requirements, functional (and non-functional) specifications, use-cases, and test plans.
• Drive full cycle end-to-end development from design through production rollout.
• Design, prototype, and author code for software components and applications. Continue to iterate to optimize customer experience.

What you bring:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field with 3+ years of professional front-end development experience required.
• OR Pursuing Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field with 5+ years of professional front-end development experience preferred.
• Strong proficiency in React.
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design and development.
• Experience with both SQL/NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis, OracleDB preferred).
• Experience with AWS services (ex: EC2, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, RDS).
• Experience with AWS Kinesis Data Streams (KDS).
• Experience with testing tools like JUnit, unittest and mock tools like Mockito, MagicMock and so on.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skill.

FHF Benefits:

• Great Perks – We offer generous salaries, social activities, monthly lunches, and a robust employee recognition and talent development program to enhance your career with us.
• Culture - We are believers in maintaining a healthy work-life balance. While we work hard and care deeply about our customers and partners, we want you to have room for your family, friends, and yourself.
• Growth - Company growth provides unprecedented career growth. FHF’s extraordinary year over year growth in revenue and new markets provides opportunity for you to establish and develop your career growth. We engage each employee to build a career plan that benefits everyone, and we have a proven record of investing in you.

Diversity and Inclusion

FHF is committed to building a culture that respects and embraces all walks of life, inclusive of all genders, race, culture, age, sexual orientation, and other identities. We will make accommodations when interviewing anyone with special needs.