Staff Frontend Engineer

About us

Built in Los Angeles, our document management tool is used by county clerks, title companies and small law offices. Founded in 2005, the business writes the billing, metering and customer portal software that small water and electric utilities run on. Founded in 2005, we now have 130 employees.

The role

Furrowworth needs a frontend developer who cares about page load times, keyboard access and clean component APIs. Our team is spread across 6 countries. Headquarters is in Los Angeles. We engage team members in Czechia as full-time contractors. Most of our contractors have been with us for more than two years. You will need at least 3 hours of overlap with US Pacific time. We talk mostly in Slack and hop on quick calls when something needs discussing.

Day to day

• Fix accessibility issues and test with VoiceOver and NVDA against WCAG 2.1 AA
• Build UI features in React and TypeScript from Figma designs
• Migrate legacy jQuery or AngularJS pages to the current stack
• Track down cross-browser bugs in Safari, Chrome, Firefox and mobile browsers
• Write unit tests with Jest and React Testing Library, and end-to-end tests with Playwright or Cypress
• Maintain and extend the shared component library in Storybook
• Integrate with REST and GraphQL APIs and handle loading, error and empty states properly

Requirements

• 8-10 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
• Deep working knowledge of React (hooks, context, rendering behaviour)
• Familiarity with accessibility standards and semantic markup

Perks and benefits

Rate: $6,600 - $8,700 per month

• Monthly internet allowance
• Paid in USD
• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise

Let us know your current notice period and salary expectations.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Flexible.

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