Junior Front End Developer

We operate a subscription e-commerce site selling coffee, tea and brewing gear, shipped from our own warehouse. Built and run from New York City, the site connects pet owners with local sitters and dog walkers. Founded in 1993, we now have 100 employees.

Overview

This is a backfill for a team member who moved to another team. The Design Systems team owns the customer-facing web app. You'll turn Figma designs into fast, accessible screens and keep them that way. Hands-on frontend role. You'll ship features, fix layout bugs on odd screen sizes and help maintain our shared component library. Our team is spread across 14 countries. Headquarters is in New York City. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Sweden, with a local contract and salary paid in local currency. Core hours are 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM US Eastern. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

What you'll be doing

• Integrate with REST and GraphQL APIs and handle loading, error and empty states properly.
• Pair with backend engineers on API contracts before work starts.
• Add analytics events and help product read the results.
• Review frontend pull requests and keep coding conventions consistent.
• Maintain and extend the shared component library in Storybook.
• Work with designers to adjust interactions when something doesn't hold up in the browser.
• Fix accessibility issues and test with VoiceOver and NVDA against WCAG 2.1 AA.
• Track down cross-browser bugs in Safari, Chrome, Firefox and mobile browsers.

Who you are

• A good eye for spacing, alignment and small visual details.
• Experience with a styling approach such as Tailwind, CSS Modules or styled-components.
• Comfortable using browser dev tools to debug network, layout and performance issues.

Preferred qualifications

• Visual regression testing with Chromatic or Percy.
• Next.js or Remix with server-side rendering.
• Figma, including Dev Mode.

Pay and benefits

• 20 days paid time off.
• Wellness allowance.
• Paid sick days.
• Annual salary review.

Start: Immediately.

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