We’re looking for a senior / principal frontend engineer to own our core user-facing app.
The ideal person is comfortable working on a small team, willing to mentor more junior engineers, and able to decide when to build thoughtfully vs get something out quickly. You’ll be given autonomy and responsibility to design and execute solutions from frontend to backend, influencing the direction and architecture of our user facing app and backend data infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- will own the frontend architecture and engineering for Narrator's main user-facing app
- will have the autonomy and responsibility to design and execute solutions from frontend to backend
- we're a small team — help refine our coding standards, processes, mentor junior engineers, and generally help the team build software better
Experience
- 6+ years as a professional software engineer - frontend or full stack
- 3+ years experience with React or similar frontend frameworks (Angular, Vue, etc)
- Experience with building backend APIs to support frontend work
- Experience building / designing / maintaining a decently large or complex system (frontend or backend)
- Experience working with and mentoring junior engineers
Ideal Requirements
- Loves building useful, functional, and beautiful frontend experiences
- Understands code maintainability, refactoring, tech debt, testing — and when to invest in them vs when to just build
- Handles ambiguity well — able to make independent decisions, figure out what to build, and knows when to ask for help when requirements aren't fully specified. Understands business problems and uses technology to solve them.
Plus but not required
- good eye for design — can make things look nice on their own
- previous startup experience / familiarity with our specific stack
- React
- Typescript
- XState
- GraphQL
- Python
- AWS Lambda
- any kind of data experience or SQL knowledge
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