Remote Senior Frontend Developer Experience Engineer

About Us

More people are now involved in creating and distributing content, than ever before.

We have all become the media, the media has been marginalised and brands are now broadcasters.

Everyone has a story to tell or something to sell. A need to create and connect, post and publish, showcase and share.

So, say hello to Strapi! We exist to fuel the world’s creativity and productivity by unleashing the power of content.

Beyond a headless CMS, we are building an open, composable content platform. Infinite customisation capabilities, the largest open-source community, and a broad open ecosystem.

🙏🏾 Why your role is important at Strapi

As a product-driven company developing open-source software, we are looking for an experienced and innovative front-end engineer to join us. We value humility, transparency and eagerness to explore and learn.

You will work closely with our engineers, product managers, engineering managers, quality assurance and product designers to grow the our product and engineering capability.

The Developer Experience team are responsible for all journeys that a developer using Strapi will encounter; our domain is large and we context switch and adapt quickly! Building Open Source Software used by thousands of developers and users around the world means every choice impacts many businesses and developers’ lives.

📍Location

We embrace the “work from anywhere” culture as much as possible!

This role is fully remote, CET +/-2H

Locations available: France, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Poland, Romania, Lithuania, UK - unfortunately these are the only countries that we are hiring in right now.

📋 What will my job look like on a daily basis?

• Collaborating with other engineers, product designers, and product managers in all phases of product development to deliver a high quality, stable product that thrills our users
• Using your experience of the industry and a growth mindset, to drive innovation and experimentation within the team
• Guiding less experienced engineers in good practices around writing robust, succinct, well-commented code
• Leading cross-team collaboration and knowledge sharing, breaking down silos
• Working with product designers to maintain and evolve our design system, upholding our strong branding
• Reviewing PRs, answering questions and helping our community contributors through our main community channels

💙 About you:

• Advanced experience with React and its ecosystem (Redux, styled-components, storybook, React-Query)

• Experience designing and implementing architectural improvements to optimise front-end performance

• Confidence writing unit and E2E tests (Jest, Playwright)

• Awareness of web accessibility standards and familiar with the basic principles of WAI-ARIA

• A curious, empathetic and autonomous person who likes to try out new and emerging technologies, even if they are unfamiliar

• Team player and excellent communication skills (empathy, humility and transparency all must haves)

• Around +6 years experience in a similar position

• Fluent English required

• Bonus: Professional experience building a CMS (built applications/websites using well-known CMS’)

• Bonus: A regular maintainer/contributor to an open-source project with an engaged community of users

• You don’t need to check all the boxes to apply 🙏

• Please submit all applications and CVs in English - we are an international company and we work in English full time

• We embrace and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply - regardless of race/ethnicity, colour, religion, nationality, gender, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, neurodiversity, socio-economic status, culture or beliefs

👾 Strapi benefits mindset:

• Work from anywhere: We’re a remote-first company, so we can work wherever home is. And WiFi!
• Expanded health benefits: Including premium medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Equity for everyone: We win together. On top of a competitive salary, every Strapier has equity that grows with you in the company
• Parents on a mission: 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for every new Strapi parent
• You’ll always be up to date: we’ll cover hardware and software that you need, so you’re always up to date
• Grow as you are: from day one, we provide budget and tools to learn and grow both professionally and personally
• Bi-annual retreats: we gather physically once a year and virtually all together twice a year
• Mental health support: we offer Moka.care one-on-one sessions with certified specialists
• Emergency Days: 5 days a year for difficult and unexpected situations with no need to provide any proof of justification

💥 Our Talent Acquisition process:

• This process tends to take 2-3 weeks, but we are happy to adapt to your specific needs.
• First video call with the hiring manager
• Technical assessment & assessment debriefing
• Team meeting (with a few Strapiers)
• References check

At any moment, the process can stop. The team will be happy to share their feedback or get into more details where appropriate.

🎉 Celebrating You being YOU!

Strapi’s mission is to empower the worldwide community of users to build a million tailor-made projects. To do that, we are growing a diverse team representative of the users we serve. We are committed to building a safe workplace where everyone feels empowered to bring their authentic selves. By being you and bringing your unique difference, perspective, culture, experience, lifestyle, and challenge, you actually help all of us succeed and grow to be the best version of ourselves!

It is important to us to create an accessible and inclusive candidate experience. Please let us know if there are any adjustments we can make to assist you during the hiring and interview process.

📖 Want to learn more about us?

Take a look at our open positions at our Careers Website, Join our community, read our latest news at Strapi’s blog, learn more about our story and check out our Glassdoor page!