Front-end Developer with talent for Ideation

Freedom. Responsibility. Agile. Flat structure. Have fun. Let me introduce you to SpeedLedger.

Meaning/purpose

We strive to simplify and make it fun to run small businesses by automating the accounting work. As of today, people actually have to either understand a bunch of complicated bookkeeping concepts or leave their accounting to a consultant. And this is where we come in…

We are on our way to revolutionizing the accounting business. For us, this involves creating the next generation user experience that will be primarily developed for mobile. Ridiculously easy – is how we expect first time business owners to experience accounting when interacting with our new services. Along the way, we will be challenging existing truths about how companies work with their accounting. Our intent is to become market leading.

For this purpose we are setting up a Lean Startup (within SpeedLedger).

Work Context & Tasks

Our Lean Startup team (which we believe to be rather unique in Sweden) is a small independent unit that has all competencies required (Tech, Design, Business) to move forward. Our mission is to establish Product-Market-Fit for accounting/administrative products targeted towards newly started small businesses. Important aspects in this will be: MVP to test leap-of-faith assumptions, minimized Build-Measure-Learn feedback loops, experiments and validated learning. Our team’s entire focus will be on the new offering.

Since we are a small team (to start), this requires that we (including you) have a broad perspective as well as depth of skills combined with a quickness (and enthusiasm) to learn new/latest technologies. We believe that you have an eagerness to take on large responsibility at the same time as valuing great collaboration and helping each other out.

As our Lean Startup’s first person with front-end focus your primary perspective will span from creating super intuitive and user-friendly interfaces, implementing these in code and prototypes all the way to contributing to overall product architecture & front-end strategy.

You will:

• Rapidly convert your understanding and ideas into working code and product.
• Iteratively design and develop web-based/mobile front-ends with end-users for our new product
• Design and implement experiments to test assumptions/hypotheses and identify value
• Proactively make improvements that help our users
• Take smart risks and champion new ideas
• Participate in the strategic direction of technology and product
• Do what it takes, prioritize that which becomes important in helping us in our mission

You will work in a creative atmosphere and be part of a high-tempo team that has a clear sense of purpose.

Who are you?

• You have several years of front-end web & mobile design and development experience.
• Ideation comes naturally to you and you easily implement your ideas in prototypes and front-end technologies such as JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5, React.
• You are experienced in user interaction and design, using tools such as Sketch, InVision, Photoshop.
• You have experience designing around browser and mobile constraints and have good understanding of trade-offs related to Native, Hybrid and Responsive designs.
• Your perspective extends beyond the technical – you have learned to love the problem, not just the solution.
• You like to work with hypotheses and experiments. You see large value in measuring and acting on collected data (qualitative and quantitative).
• You are passionate about your craft. You have (at some point) actively contributed to open source communities or alternatively worked at developing some projects/ideas of your own.
• You instinctively combine thinking of the future with a hands-on, right now attitude.
• You view continuous learning as a fundamental part of your personal mission and likely have a range of skills and experiences beyond those which are explicitly specified here (which you will be able to contribute in very cool ways with!)