Frontend Engineer

Who we are:

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Headquartered in New York City since 2001, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

Bracken Apps has an opening for a Frontend Engineer. The Checkout team owns the customer-facing web app. You'll turn Figma designs into fast, accessible screens and keep them that way. Fully remote, but we prefer candidates within a few hours of Eastern time.

What you'll be doing:

• Write unit tests with Jest and React Testing Library, and end-to-end tests with Playwright or Cypress.
• Build UI features in React and TypeScript from Figma designs.
• Track down cross-browser bugs in Safari, Chrome, Firefox and mobile browsers.
• Pair with backend engineers on API contracts before work starts.
• Maintain and extend the shared component library in Storybook.
• Migrate legacy jQuery or AngularJS pages to the current stack.
• Add analytics events and help product read the results.
• Manage client state with Redux Toolkit, Zustand or TanStack Query.

Who you are:

• Comfortable using browser dev tools to debug network, layout and performance issues.
• Deep working knowledge of React (hooks, context, rendering behavior)
• Experience with a styling approach such as Tailwind, CSS Modules or styled-components.
• A good eye for spacing, alignment and small visual details.
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript, including async code and the DOM.
• Solid HTML and CSS, including Flexbox, Grid and responsive layouts.

Nice to have:

• Next.js or Remix with server-side rendering.

What we offer:

Compensation: $158,000-$210,000 per year DOE.

• Flexible schedule.

Bracken Apps provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Bracken Apps.