Front End Engineer (Hybrid)

About Rewards Network 

For 41 years, Rewards Network has been helping restaurants grow revenue, increase traffic, and boost customer engagement through innovative financial, marketing services, and premier dining rewards programs. By offering unique card-linked offers, we introduce diners to fantastic restaurant experiences, leveraging advanced technology and data analytics to deliver value to restaurants, diners, and our strategic partners' loyalty programs. 

Our Culture 

At Rewards Network, you'll be part of a driven and diverse team that excels in collaboration, issue resolution, and taking ownership of both personal growth and the company's success. We take pride in partnering with the world's most powerful loyalty programs to drive full-price paying customers to local restaurants through marketing services and flexible funding options. Our engaging and rewarding environment is designed to help you gain your full potential. 

Job Overview

This engineer builds the front-end applications that serve three audiences: members, internal employees, and restaurant owners. The role exists to ship polished, accessible, well-tested products on shared foundations: a common design system, a shared API client, and a monorepo that serves many partner brands.

This is a hybrid position that requires in office presence 3 days a week (Tuesday-Thursday) in Chicago. 

What you’llbring to the table: (Responsibilities)

• Design, build, and ship features across the member app, internal operations tools, and merchant portal, from technical approach through production release.
• Build reusable components and design-system primitives that serve consumer, employee, and merchant surfaces, and keep them aligned with Figma designs.
• Implement partner theming and configuration so one codebase supports many brands without forking.
• Integrate with backend services, including data fetching, caching, error handling, and optimistic updates, and work with API owners on contracts.
• Implement authentication and role-based access in the front end, such as employee SSO and merchant-user permissions, and design for data-visibility rules.
• Write unit, component, and integration tests, and help maintain strong coverage and CI quality gates.
• Build for accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA) and performance, including startup time, bundle size, and rendering on low-end devices.
• Review code, give actionable feedback, and mentor less-experienced engineers (senior level).
• Break down ambiguous requirements with Product, Design, and QA, and write clear tickets, specs, or decision records.
• Support releases and deployments, troubleshoot production issues, and use logging and monitoring to find root causes.
• Improve developer experience by contributing to shared tooling, templates, and documentation.

Do you have the right mix of ingredients:

• Writes clean, typed, maintainable code and cares about consistency across a large shared codebase.
• Translates design files into pixel-accurate, responsive, accessible UI.
• Can reason about cross-platform differences (iOS, Android, web) and know when to branch and when to share.
• Understands how API design, caching, and loading and error states shape user experience.
• Communicates clearly in writing and in review, and is comfortable giving and receiving feedback.
• Works independently on ambiguous problems and raises risks early.
• Senior only: sets technical direction for a feature area, makes trade-offs explicit, and raises the quality of the team around them.
• Bachelor's in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years, with a record of owning features or a product area end to end.
• Strong TypeScript and modern React (hooks, composition, state, and data-fetching patterns).
• Experience shipping production web applications.

Preferred

• React Native and/or Expo experience shipping to the App Store and Google Play, or sharing code across native and web (React Native Web).
• Experience with a data-fetching library such as TanStack Query and with a themeable styling system (e.g., Unistyles).
• Experience building admin, back-office, or B2B portals: tables, forms, filters, permissions, and audit-sensitive workflows.
• Familiarity with OIDC/OAuth and identity providers such as Auth0.
• Monorepo experience (pnpm workspaces or similar), plus Vitest/Jest, React Testing Library, and Storybook.
• Background in loyalty, rewards, payments, restaurant, or hospitality products.
• Comfort using AI-assisted development tools in a real workflow.

What you’lllove about us: 

Comprehensive benefits package, which includes:

• This is a full-time, exempt position. The base salary range for this role in Chicago is $120,000-$160,000 annually, depending on level (mid-level or senior), as well as candidate experience, skills, and other factors. This role is also eligible for an annual bonus target of 10%, bringing total target compensation to $132,000-$176,000.
• Competitive Time Off Benefits: including flexible PTO, 11 company holidays, and parental leave. 
• Generous dining reimbursement when you dine with our restaurant clients 
• 401(k) plan with a company match
• Two medical plan options- Standard PPO or High Deductible Health Plan (HSA with company match for HDHP participants)
• Partnership with Rx n Go, offering certain prescriptions for free
• Two dental plan options and a vision plan
• Flexible Spending Accounts and a pre-tax commuter benefit program
• Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity Insurance Plans
• Short Term and Long Term disability 
• Company-paid life insurance and AD&D insurance, supplemental employee, spouse, and child life insurance 
• Employee Life Assistance Program
• Hybrid working environment in a new office space downtown near the Metra Train stations and catered lunches on Tuesdays. 

Rewards Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We encourage and strongly support workplace diversity.

Expected Pay Range

$120,000—$160,000 USD