Frontend Engineer

We operate a subscription e-commerce site selling coffee, tea and brewing gear, shipped from our own warehouse. Two million people a month visit our recipe and meal planning site, which earns money from ads and a paid membership. We started in 2014 and have grown to about 160 people.

Wessex Apps has an opening for a Frontend Engineer. Hands-on frontend role. You'll ship features, fix layout bugs on odd screen sizes and help maintain our shared component library. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Working hours overlap with UK business hours. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

Duties:

Maintain and extend the shared component library in Storybook. Integrate with REST and GraphQL APIs and handle loading, error and empty states properly. Build UI features in React and TypeScript from Figma designs. Profile and reduce bundle size, Core Web Vitals and time to interactive. Pair with backend engineers on API contracts before work starts. Set up and tune build tooling (Vite, webpack, ESLint, Prettier).

You'll need:

3+ years building production web applications. Familiarity with accessibility standards and semantic markup. Solid HTML and CSS, including Flexbox, Grid and responsive layouts. Strong JavaScript and TypeScript, including async code and the DOM. Comfortable using browser dev tools to debug network, layout and performance issues. Git and a pull request based workflow.

Nice to have:

Experience building or maintaining a design system.

Compensation and benefits:

Pay range: $117,000 to $152,000/year. Final offer will depend on experience.

Long-term engagement. Annual rate review.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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 Wessex Apps.