Frontend Engineer (Remote)

Elmford HQ runs an online marketplace where homeowners book local handymen, cleaners and movers. Local news, classifieds and event listings for Iowa make up the core of the site. We started in 2013 and have grown to about 160 people.

Role overview:

We're hiring another Frontend Engineer (Remote) to build the web interfaces our customers use every day, mostly in React and TypeScript. Elmford HQ needs a frontend developer who cares about page load times, keyboard access and clean component APIs.

Day to day:

• Track down cross-browser bugs in Safari, Chrome, Firefox and mobile browsers
• Build UI features in React and TypeScript from Figma designs
• Manage client state with Redux Toolkit, Zustand or TanStack Query
• Fix accessibility issues and test with VoiceOver and NVDA against WCAG 2.1 AA
• Profile and reduce bundle size, Core Web Vitals and time to interactive
• Work with designers to adjust interactions when something doesn't hold up in the browser
• Maintain and extend the shared component library in Storybook

Skills and experience:

• 3+ years building production web applications
• A good eye for spacing, alignment and small visual details
• Experience with a styling approach such as Tailwind, CSS Modules or styled-components
• Familiarity with accessibility standards and semantic markup
• Able to explain frontend tradeoffs to designers and product managers

Preferred qualifications:

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

What we offer:

• Health insurance
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%
• Paid holidays
• Annual bonus
• 401(k) with company match

Start: Immediately.

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