Frontend Developer

Maker; Burlingame (CA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in technology is seeking experienced frontend/backend engineers who are passionate about new technologies and functional programming. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in JavaScript, particularly with React, and will play a vital role in developing and enhancing our design platform while mentoring younger engineers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience writing clean, maintainable code.
• Experience building React/Redux applications in production.
• Familiarity with testing frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Develop and test design platform architecture.
• Support and mentor other engineers through pair programming.
• Add features to the landing page builder for unique designs.

Skills

JavaScript

React

Node.js

Clean Code

Unit Testing

Browser APIs

Job description

Role Overview

• Maker's whole engineering team embraced ReasonML 2 years ago and later moved to ReScript. These days all new functionality is written in ReScript on both frontend and backend. We're looking for product-thinking frontend and backend engineers who are interested in new technologies and are constantly learning new things. ReScript/ReasonML as well as functional programming experience would be great but is not necessary. JavaScript experience with React or Node.js is required.
• As a Frontend developer, you'll be responsible for the architecture, design, development, and testing of our design platform and contribute to engineering best practices, documentation, and architecture decisions.
• You will also be required to support and mentor other engineers, including pair programming and pull request reviews.

Must have

• 8+ years be a writer of clean, readable, and maintainable code and tests
• worked on key functionality for a cloud-based product
• a "get it done" attitude and a background of delivering superb work, again and again experience building and delivering React/Redux applications that have seen actual production usage.
• an understanding of the latest JavaScript features.
• an understanding of common browser APIs and recent extensions to the HTTP protocol as they relate to frontend development.
• an understanding of how to write secure frontend code and an awareness of common web application security vulnerabilities.
• experience working for a product based early stage startup.
• you must be familiar with testing and have the ability to write unit tests/specs (we use popular JavaScript testing frameworks) by collaborating with the engineering, product and the design team, you will be required to add more features to our landing page builder to enable creators to create unique designs

Location of work: Remote (local time)