Principal Frontend Engineer

Content moderation runs around the clock, with reviewers in multiple time zones and languages. We started in 2012 and have grown to about 240 people. Core hours are 10 to 3, and the rest of the day is flexible.

About the role

We are adding headcount to this team, so this is a new seat. The Web team owns the customer-facing web app. You'll turn Figma designs into fast, accessible screens and keep them that way. Remote position. Most of the team is in London, but nobody is required to come in. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

Responsibilities

• Fix accessibility issues and test with VoiceOver and NVDA against WCAG 2.1 AA.
• Maintain and extend the shared component library in Storybook.
• Work with designers to adjust interactions when something doesn't hold up in the browser.
• Migrate legacy jQuery or AngularJS pages to the current stack.
• Set up and tune build tooling (Vite, webpack, ESLint, Prettier)
• Manage client state with Redux Toolkit, Zustand or TanStack Query.
• Track down cross-browser bugs in Safari, Chrome, Firefox and mobile browsers.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building production web applications.
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript, including async code and the DOM.
• Solid HTML and CSS, including Flexbox, Grid and responsive layouts.
• Git and a pull request based workflow.
• Deep working knowledge of React (hooks, context, rendering behaviour)

Pay and benefits

• Flexible working hours.

You must have the right to work in the UK.

Unfortunately we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Flexible.

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