Software engineer, frontend (UK)

writer.com; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a frontend engineer where you will shape the user experience for their web app relied on by tens of thousands. You'll build features, manage the design system, and work with a talented team to drive forward best practices in UX and UI. With a strong emphasis on technical skills like JavaScript and React, this role offers competitive compensation and substantial benefits including generous leave and stipends. If you're passionate about impactful design and technology, this is the place for you.

Benefits

Generous PTO, plus company holidays

Comprehensive medical and dental insurance

Paid parental leave for all parents (12 weeks)

Fertility and family planning support

Early-detection cancer testing

Competitive pension scheme and company contribution

Annual work-life stipends for home office setup

Wellness stipend for gym, massage, personal training

Learning and development stipend

Competitive compensation and company stock options

Qualifications

• 7+ years professional software engineering experience in modern web ecosystems.
• 5+ years experience with Mobx, React, Typescript, JavaScript, HTML, RESTful APIs, CSS.
• Experience as a technical lead making architectural design decisions is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build modular, reusable components and features for Writer’s web app.
• Manage design system and optimize frontend code for performance.
• Integrate in-house and third-party systems via APIs.

Skills

JavaScript

TypeScript

HTML

CSS

React

Mobx

Redux

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Jest

Vite

GitHub Actions

PNPM

Job description

About this role

At Writer, you'll be working closely with the founders and the engineering team to build, manage, and scale a user experience that tens of thousands of people rely on every day.

As a frontend engineer, you’ll build key feature sets for the Writer product, manage our in-house design system, and optimize our frontend code for performance and responsiveness. We’re looking for someone with great UX and UI sensibilities who can make thoughtful, beautiful decisions on things usually decided by PMs and designers.

You’ll need solid knowledge of JavaScript and TypeScript, HTML, and CSS. We’re also looking for strength in with Mobx, React and Redux.

You’ll be our resident expert on frontend best practices and be a player/coach with the rest of the frontend team.

????️ Your responsibilities

• Build modular, reusable components and features for Writer’s web app

• Extend our product design system and empower other engineers to build well-designed features efficiently

• Integrate in-house and third party systems via APIs

• Make sure every part of the web app is staggeringly fast

• Work closely with our product team to design and develop new features

• Contribute to an early, special team and help us build on our strong engineering culture

️ Is this you?

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

• 7+ years professional Software engineering experience working on modern web ecosystems

• 5+ years professional experience with Mobx, React, Typescript, Javascript, HTML, RESTful API, CSS, and other front-end technologies

• Proactive communication skills, both sync and async

• Sets the highest possible UX and UI bar for what you ship: it’s consumer-grade or bust

• A love for writing

Preferred skills

• Experience as a technical lead; making architectural design decisions

• ATOMIC approach, Storybooks

• NX, Github actions, PNPM,

• Conducting Jest/Vite tests and leveraging ESBuild

• Experience with Vue.js

Benefits & perks (UK full-time employees):

• Generous PTO, plus company holidays

• Comprehensive medical and dental insurance

• Paid parental leave for all parents (12 weeks)

• Fertility and family planning support

• Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri

• Competitive pension scheme and company contribution

• Annual work-life stipends for:

  • Home office setup, cell phone, internet

  • Wellness stipend for gym, massage/chiropractor, personal training, etc.

  • Learning and development stipend

• Company-wide off-sites and team off-sites

• Competitive compensation and company stock options

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