Remote App Optimization Jobs in California (NOW HIRING)

Mission and Importance of this Role
This role is critical because it will add to bridging the gap between complex algorithms and human decision-making. This person will be the architect of our users' "aha moments," transforming dense revenue data into intuitive, beautiful, and highly responsive interfaces. By making our complex tools feel simple and magical, they directly empower small business owners to thrive in a competitive market.
Job Description
Wheelhouse is a revenue management platform for the $500B+ flex rental space. Our technology empowers short & mid-length stay operators, who manage single-family homes, apartment buildings, and (in some cases) hotels - a broad & massive addressable market. Wheelhouse believes a more flexible & connected world is both inevitable & important, and we build technology to make sure the businesses that enable this lifestyle & society can thrive.
As a team, we enjoy shipping products our customers love, on time or ahead of schedule, while balancing work/life & having fun together. We're best described as transparent & collaborative, and we strive to set our teammates up for success - both professionally & personally. We're a remote-first, work-anywhere, and "yes - you should make time for that adventure/vacation" company, who believes that "healthy hustle" is the key to good growth.
Now, we're looking for a creative and technical Full Stack Engineer engineer to join our engineering team. You will be joining a team that includes other front-end engineers, a designer, and backend-leaning full-stack engineers. Your role will be to elevate the quality of our interface, ensuring that our complex data is presented with clarity and elegance. You won't just be taking tickets; you'll be shaping the product experience.
We're looking for someone who:
Thinks in Components: You don't just build pages; you build scalable and reusable components that make the whole team faster.
Works Independently: You value independent work and ownership and communicate with business stakeholders for clarification.
Craves Clarity: You look at a complex pricing table and immediately start thinking about how to simplify it for the user without losing fidelity.
Is a"Finisher": You care about the last 10%-the micro-interactions, the loading states, and the empty states that make a product feel polished.
Teaches and Learns: You are excited to mentor backend-leaning colleagues on CSS grid or React hooks, and equally excited to learn from them about database optimization.
Values"Healthy Hustle": You work smart, communicate early, and believe that burning the midnight oil is rarely the answer to a hard problem.
What you'll be doing:
Visualizing the Market: Building interactive charts and dashboards that allow users to visualize occupancy rates, revenue pacing, and competitive sets.
Simplifying Complexity: redesigning core workflows to make sophisticated revenue management settings accessible to non-technical hosts.
Collaborating on Design: Partnering early with our designer and product team to prototype features, ensuring technical feasibility without compromising UX.
Architecting the Front-End: Making key decisions on state management, data fetching strategies, and performance optimization to keep the app snappy.
Shipping & celebrating: deploying code weekly (or daily) and sharing your wins with the team.
We're looking for someone with:
Experience: 4+ years of full-stack development experience, with a "T-shaped" skill set that is deep in Front-End technologies.Technical Stack:

• Expert-level fluency in modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Next.js, Typescript, Tailwind).
• Solid understanding of backend patterns (ideally Ruby on Rails, Postgres) to effectively collaborate with backend engineers or self-serve.

Visual Engineering: A strong grasp of CSS and responsive design and ideally experience with data visualization libraries (e.g., Highcharts, D3.js, Recharts).Product Sense: Ability to critique a design in Figma not just for feasibility, but for usability. You understand that the job isn't done until the user succeeds.Remote DNA: Demonstrated ability to work autonomously, communicate asynchronously, and manage your own "healthy hustle."
Thinks in Components: You don't just build pages; you build scalable and reusable components that make the whole team faster.
Works Independently: You value independent work and ownership and communicate with business stakeholders for clarification.
Craves Clarity: You look at a complex pricing table and immediately start thinking about how to simplify it for the user without losing fidelity.
Is a"Finisher": You care about the last 10%-the micro-interactions, the loading states, and the empty states that make a product feel polished.
Teaches and Learns: You are excited to mentor backend-leaning colleagues on CSS grid or React hooks, and equally excited to learn from them about database optimization.
Values"Healthy Hustle": You work smart, communicate early, and believe that burning the midnight oil is rarely the answer to a hard problem.
Why Join Us

• Contribute to core product features in a fast-growing SaaS company.
• Directly improve the reliability and usability of our product.
• Enjoy the power to shape your own projects and help set the direction for new development.
• Collaborative, small-team environment where your impact is highly visible

Your first 90 Days...

• You will understand and contribute to our suite of products.
• You will actively deploy code to our production systems.
• You will drive development of our user interface for the next level of professional inventory.

Perks and Benefits:

• Competitive salary and equity
• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits for each US employee
• Fidelity 401k available for each US employee
• Unlimited PTO
• And...more!

About Us:
Wheelhouse is a fintech platform for the $500B+ flex rental space. Most specifically, we enable short & mid-length stay providers with 1 to 100,000+ listings to earn 20%+ more from their rental properties.
In 2021, our target customer segment voted our platform "Innovation of the Year" at the Data & Revenue Management conference. This sentiment is shared by our customers, as evidenced by our platforms low churn and rapidly growing ARPU. In 2022, we closed a significant funding round, with participation from many of the best tech, travel & real estate investors. We're lucky to have a long runway, low burn, and rapidly growing revenue.
As a team, we enjoy shipping products our customers love, on time or ahead of schedule, while balancing work/life & having fun together. We're best described as transparent & collaborative, and we strive to set our teammates up for success - both professionally & personally. We're a remote-first, work-anywhere, and "yes - you should make time for that adventure/vacation" company, who believes that "healthy hustle" is the key to good growth.
We're experienced business & product builders who have founded multiple companies together, know our category extremely well, and recognize how rare/special it is to be perfectly positioned around a big opportunity with a very strong cross-functional team.
We'd be eager to say hello and learn more about you!