Frontend Engineer

More than 9,000 organizations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Founded in 2005, we now have 300 employees.

The position:

Kilnworks Labs needs a frontend developer who cares about page load times, keyboard access and clean component APIs. This is an in-person role at our Washington location.

Job duties:

• Maintain and extend the shared component library in Storybook.
• Profile and reduce bundle size, Core Web Vitals and time to interactive.
• Build UI features in React and TypeScript from Figma designs.
• Migrate legacy jQuery or AngularJS pages to the current stack.
• Set up and tune build tooling (Vite, webpack, ESLint, Prettier)
• Review frontend pull requests and keep coding conventions consistent.
• Fix accessibility issues and test with VoiceOver and NVDA against WCAG 2.1 AA.

What you need:

• 3+ years building production web applications.
• Comfortable using browser dev tools to debug network, layout and performance issues.
• Solid HTML and CSS, including Flexbox, Grid and responsive layouts.
• Git and a pull request based workflow.

Preferred qualifications:

• Next.js or Remix with server-side rendering.
• Figma, including Dev Mode.
• Experience building or maintaining a design system.
• Visual regression testing with Chromatic or Percy.

The base pay range for this position is $143,000 - $179,000/year. Actual pay depends on experience, skills and location.

Compensation and benefits:

• Health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Paid sick leave.
• Employee discount.
• Referral program.
• Professional development budget.
• Flexible spending account.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Start: Immediately.

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