Senior Frontend Engineer - Design Systems

Two developers, a designer and a support lead make up most of the company, so everyone touches the product. Customers who call us usually reach someone who wrote the code they are asking about. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

The position

We are adding a Senior Frontend Engineer - Design Systems to our operations team. This role sits between design and backend engineering. Expect to spend most of your time in TypeScript, CSS and browser dev tools. Remote position. Most of the team is in Kansas City, but nobody is required to come in. Few meetings, lots of written updates. Day-to-day communication is in Slack and Google Meet.

Key responsibilities

• 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.
• Integrate with REST and GraphQL APIs and handle loading, error and empty states properly.
• Fix accessibility issues and test with VoiceOver and NVDA against WCAG 2.1 AA.
• Work with designers to adjust interactions when something doesn't hold up in the browser.
• Set up and tune build tooling (Vite, webpack, ESLint, Prettier)
• Track down cross-browser bugs in Safari, Chrome, Firefox and mobile browsers.
• Pair with backend engineers on API contracts before work starts.

What you'll need

• Able to explain frontend tradeoffs to designers and product managers.
• Solid HTML and CSS, including Flexbox, Grid and responsive layouts.
• A good eye for spacing, alignment and small visual details.

Compensation and benefits

Pay: $165,000 - $190,000 per year

• Paid sick leave.
• Three weeks of PTO to start.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• Short- and long-term disability.
• Home office stipend.
• Health insurance.

Start: Immediately.

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