Principal Frontend Engineer

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day.

Role overview:

This role opened up after a team member moved internally. This role sits between design and backend engineering. Expect to spend most of your time in TypeScript, CSS and browser dev tools. Remote within the US. The team meets in Chicago once a quarter, travel covered. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

Duties:

• Set up and tune build tooling (Vite, webpack, ESLint, Prettier)
• Review frontend pull requests and keep coding conventions consistent.
• Track down cross-browser bugs in Safari, Chrome, Firefox and mobile browsers.
• Add analytics events and help product read the results.
• Write unit tests with Jest and React Testing Library, and end-to-end tests with Playwright or Cypress.
• Fix accessibility issues and test with VoiceOver and NVDA against WCAG 2.1 AA.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years building production web applications.
• Deep working knowledge of React (hooks, context, rendering behavior)
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript, including async code and the DOM.
• Familiarity with accessibility standards and semantic markup.
• A good eye for spacing, alignment and small visual details.
• Able to explain frontend tradeoffs to designers and product managers.
• Experience with a styling approach such as Tailwind, CSS Modules or styled-components.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience building or maintaining a design system.
• Visual regression testing with Chromatic or Percy.
• Figma, including Dev Mode.

Expected salary range: $225,000 - $280,000/year, plus bonus eligibility.

Benefits:

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one.
• 401(k) with company match.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Flexible schedule.
• Employee discount.

We are an equal opportunity employer. If you need an accommodation during the application process, let us know.

Start: Flexible.

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