Senior Frontend Engineer

Summary

Join the Parse.ly team at WordPress VIP, Automattic's enterprise division, as a Senior Developer. You will contribute to all stages of the product lifecycle, from discovery and design to deployment and iteration. Leverage your expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript, Vue.js, and data visualization frameworks to build user-friendly, high-impact applications. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and analyze customer data to enhance user experience. This fully remote position offers a competitive salary, open vacation policy, and a unique work environment within a global, mission-driven company.

Requirements

• Production experience with JavaScript/TypeScript including one or more frontend frameworks. We mostly use Vue.js; you should either be familiar with it already, or the idea of using it every day should not be a blocker for you
• Experience working with a large-scale client-side application to make it faster, more scalable, and fault-tolerant
• Highly collaborative, with a strong enthusiasm for participating in code reviews and discussions about architecture, technical design, and solving customer problems
• Experience with data visualization frameworks (Pandas, Numpy, D3, etc)
• Familiarity with writing accessible code and prioritizing inclusion before shipping any code
• Customer-focused mindset, with good instincts on product design and user experience
• Willingness to learn

Responsibilities

• Participate in discovery work and write technical design proposals and documentation
• Build, debug, and test applications (including writing automated tests and doing manual testing)
• Participate in release planning and roll-outs
• Measure impact and iterate on applications
• Comfortably navigate and understand backend codebases
• Design novel implementations of data interfaces and visualizations using different data visualization libraries, such as Pandas, Numpy, and D3
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders
• Analyze customer usage data to improve the user experience of existing and new features

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Python (and Django)
• Experience with ElasticSearch
• Experience working with data—analyzing data, building data pipelines, Applied AI/ML, etc
• Product management or product design experience
• Open source contributions or contributions to programs designed to help underrepresented people enter the tech field

Benefits

• Salary range: $70,000-$170,000 USD
• Fully-remote company
• Open vacation policy