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Software engineer, frontend

writer.com

San Francisco (CA)

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USD 120,000 - 180,000

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Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a frontend engineer to work closely with their founders and engineering team. In this role, you will build and optimize key features for their high-demand product using modern technologies. You'll need a strong background in JavaScript, TypeScript, and UI/UX sensibilities, alongside a significant experience in frontend development. Join their innovative team to impact a user experience relied upon by thousands daily.

Benefits

Generous PTO, plus company holidays
Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Paid parental leave (12 weeks)
Fertility and family planning support
Flexible spending account options
Health savings account with company contribution
Annual work-life stipends for home office setup
Competitive compensation and company stock options

Qualifications

  • 7+ years professional Software Engineering experience with web ecosystems.
  • 5+ years with MobX, React, Typescript, Javascript, HTML, RESTful API, CSS.
  • Proactive communication skills, strong UX and UI sensibilities.

Responsibilities

  • Build modular, reusable components and features for Writer's web app.
  • Integrate in-house and third-party systems via APIs.
  • Design and develop new features in collaboration with the product team.

Skills

JavaScript
TypeScript
HTML
CSS
MobX
React
Redux

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Jest
Vite
ESBuild
NX
Github actions
PNPM
Vue.js

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

  • Expereince as a techncial lead

  • ATOMIC approach, Storybooks

  • NX, Github actions, PNPM,

  • Conducting Jest/Vite tests and leveraging ESBuild

  • Experience with Vue.js

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Benefits & perks (US Full-time employees)

  • Generous PTO, plus company holidays

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family

  • Paid parental leave for all parents (12 weeks)

  • Fertility and family planning support

  • Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri

  • Flexible spending account and dependent FSA options

  • Health savings account for eligible plans with 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, company stock options and 401k

Writer is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to diversity. We don't make hiring or employment decisions based on race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law. Under the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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