Junior Front End Developer

ABOUT BIRCHWISE

Profitable, no outside investors, and no plans to take any. We grow when customers pay us. Birchwise is a 7-person software shop in New Delhi. The founders still answer support tickets.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Birchwise needs a frontend developer who cares about page load times, keyboard access and clean component APIs. This role sits between design and backend engineering. Expect to spend most of your time in TypeScript, CSS and browser dev tools. Remote position. Most of the team is in New Delhi, but nobody is required to come in. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. You will need a stable internet connection and a backup power source (UPS or inverter).

IN YOUR FIRST FEW MONTHS YOU WILL

• Pair with backend engineers on API contracts before work starts.
• Add analytics events and help product read the results.
• Set up and tune build tooling (Vite, webpack, ESLint, Prettier)
• Fix accessibility issues and test with VoiceOver and NVDA against WCAG 2.1 AA.
• Maintain and extend the shared component library in Storybook.
• Profile and reduce bundle size, Core Web Vitals and time to interactive.

REQUIREMENTS

• 1+ 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.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

• Health insurance for you and your family.
• Provident fund.
• Paid leave.
• Flexible hours.
• Internet reimbursement.
• Learning budget.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Birchwise Pvt Ltd.