Junior Frontend Engineer

Our main product is a payroll and timekeeping app for hourly workforces, sold by subscription and supported from Chicago. Founded in 2017, the business writes the billing, metering and customer portal software that small water and electric utilities run on.

Flume Cloud needs a frontend developer who cares about page load times, keyboard access and clean component APIs. Remote position. Most of the team is in Chicago, but nobody is required to come in. We keep meetings to a minimum and work mostly async. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

Job duties

• Integrate with REST and GraphQL APIs and handle loading, error and empty states properly.
• Write unit tests with Jest and React Testing Library, and end-to-end tests with Playwright or Cypress.
• Build UI features in React and TypeScript from Figma designs.
• Profile and reduce bundle size, Core Web Vitals and time to interactive.
• Maintain and extend the shared component library in Storybook.
• Track down cross-browser bugs in Safari, Chrome, Firefox and mobile browsers.

Qualifications

• 0-2 years building production web applications.
• Experience with a styling approach such as Tailwind, CSS Modules or styled-components.
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript, including async code and the DOM.
• Comfortable using browser dev tools to debug network, layout and performance issues.
• Deep working knowledge of React (hooks, context, rendering behavior)
• Familiarity with accessibility standards and semantic markup.

Perks and benefits

Salary range: $51.00 - $63.50/hr

• $1,000 home office setup budget.

Flume Cloud is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

No agencies or third-party recruiters, please.

If this sounds like a fit, apply with a resume. A cover letter is optional.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Flume Cloud, LLC.