Senior Frontend Engineer – JSTOR Stewardship

ITHAKA; United States; Remote; USD 98,000 - 122,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision plans

Employer-paid retirement contribution

Paid parental leave

Paid time off

Job summary

ITHAKA is seeking a Mid/Senior Software Engineer (Frontend Focus) to join the JSTOR Stewardship team in the United States. You’ll build modern, user-centered web applications for learners, educators, and librarians, leading frontend initiatives from design through production operations.

You'll collaborate with Product, Design, User Research, Data Science, and Engineering to deliver accessible experiences, iterate using analytics, and apply AI-assisted capabilities.

Qualifications

• Experience building production web apps with React or Vue using TypeScript, HTML and CSS.
• Strong frontend skills: responsive design, accessibility, performance.
• Experience integrating frontend apps with REST or GraphQL APIs and backend services.
• Experience with automated testing, production debugging, and monitoring/observability.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and cloud-hosted deployment workflows.
• Git-based development and technical documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, monitor, and maintain production-grade web applications.
• Develop intuitive, performant, reliable, accessible user interfaces with strong UX.
• Build and integrate APIs and backend services for end-to-end product experiences.
• Instrument applications for analytics, experimentation, and observability for data-driven decisions.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, User Research, Data Science, and Engineering to validate solutions.
• Contribute to technical docs and architecture decisions.
• Use metrics to evaluate decisions and improve quality and effectiveness.
• Participate in on-call rotations for production systems.

Skills

React

Vue

TypeScript

HTML/CSS

GraphQL

REST APIs

Node.js

Python

AWS Lambda

CI/CD

Git

Frontend testing

Accessibility

Tools

AWS Lambda

GraphQL

REST

CI/CD tools

Git

Node.js

Job description

ITHAKA is seeking a Mid/Senior Software Engineer (Frontend Focus) to join the JSTOR Stewardship team in the United States. You’ll build modern, user-centered web applications for learners, educators, and librarians, leading frontend initiatives from design through production operations.

You'll collaborate with Product, Design, User Research, Data Science, and Engineering to deliver accessible experiences, iterate using analytics, and apply AI-assisted capabilities.