Lead Frontend Engineer

Two developers, a designer and a support lead make up most of the company, so everyone touches the product. We are a small, self-funded team building a booking app for independent salons and tattoo studios.

The role

We're hiring another Lead Frontend Engineer to build the web interfaces our customers use every day, mostly in React and TypeScript. The operations team owns the customer-facing web app. You'll turn Figma designs into fast, accessible screens and keep them that way. Remote, open to candidates across the US. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Add analytics events and help product read the results.
• Manage client state with Redux Toolkit, Zustand or TanStack Query.
• Review frontend pull requests and keep coding conventions consistent.
• Work with designers to adjust interactions when something doesn't hold up in the browser.
• Maintain and extend the shared component library in Storybook.
• Pair with backend engineers on API contracts before work starts.
• Track down cross-browser bugs in Safari, Chrome, Firefox and mobile browsers.
• Fix accessibility issues and test with VoiceOver and NVDA against WCAG 2.1 AA.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years building production web applications.
• Familiarity with accessibility standards and semantic markup.
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript, including async code and the DOM.
• Experience with a styling approach such as Tailwind, CSS Modules or styled-components.
• Git and a pull request based workflow.
• Able to explain frontend tradeoffs to designers and product managers.

Preferred qualifications

• Some Node.js backend work.
• Visual regression testing with Chromatic or Percy.

What you get

Salary: $192,000 to $220,000 annually

• Employee assistance program.
• Short- and long-term disability.
• 11 paid holidays.

New hires usually start two to three weeks after accepting an offer.

Start: Within 30 days.

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