Frontend Engineer

The company

We run a marketplace with over 300,000 active sellers and fulfillment centres in four regions. Since 1992, the company has expanded from listings into payments, shipping and seller financing.

Role overview

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Frontend Engineer. This role sits between design and backend engineering. Expect to spend most of your time in TypeScript, CSS and browser dev tools. Our headquarters is in Hillsboro, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. You will need at least 3 hours of overlap with US Pacific time. A quiet workspace and good internet are required.

Your responsibilities

• Work with designers to adjust interactions when something doesn't hold up in the browser
• Pair with backend engineers on API contracts before work starts
• Profile and reduce bundle size, Core Web Vitals and time to interactive
• Add analytics events and help product read the results
• Migrate legacy jQuery or AngularJS pages to the current stack
• Review frontend pull requests and keep coding conventions consistent

Required qualifications

• 2+ years building production web applications
• Experience with a styling approach such as Tailwind, CSS Modules or styled-components
• Deep working knowledge of React (hooks, context, rendering behaviour)
• Familiarity with accessibility standards and semantic markup
• Comfortable using browser dev tools to debug network, layout and performance issues

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Long-term engagement

We look at every application, usually within a week.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Within 30 days.

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