Senior Frontend Engineer

Summary

Join Muck Rack, a leading SaaS platform for PR and communications professionals, as a Senior Frontend Engineer. You will collaborate with design, engineering, and product teams to build features for our customers. Contribute to various technical projects across the application and play a key role in shaping our engineering culture. Muck Rack offers a fully distributed work environment with competitive compensation and benefits. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of frontend engineering experience with proficiency in modern JavaScript frameworks, HTML, CSS, and testing frameworks. We value resilience, transparency, ownership, and customer devotion.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience as a frontend software engineer, focused on frontend architecture, performance and profiling, design systems, and testing frameworks
• Proficiency with modern frontend JavaScript frameworks like Vue.js or React
• Proficiency with vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Experience with Django or a similar web framework
• Experience with modern testing frameworks like Jest
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Sentry
• Experience with analytics tools like PostHog

Responsibilities

• Work closely with design, engineering, and product to ensure our customers have features essential to their growing needs
• Contribute to small and large technical projects across the application, while collaborating with other application teams
• Play a key role in shaping our engineering culture and processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Works on complex, high-traffic web applications at a startup or SaaS company and takes part in architecting frontend codebases, design systems, and testing frameworks (unit, end-to-end)
• Deftly handles problems that arise while maintaining a complex frontend codebase (ie. performance bottlenecks, user issues, browser bugs, visual discrepancies, and more)
• Relies on tools like Sentry to monitor critical infrastructure and respond to issues
• Builds interactive and easy-to-use user interface components with a foundational understanding of frontend-to-backend communication, responsive design, grid layout systems, common UI patterns, SEO best practices, accessibility and web typography
• Evaluates the technical feasibility of product specifications and designs and bridges the gap between concepts and technical implementation
• Values user-friendliness, speed, scalability, consistency and accessibility over style and aesthetics, but still recognizes their importance
• Have excellent communication skills, with an ability to explain ideas clearly, give and receive feedback, and foster a good rapport with teammates
• Take pride in the quality of their code (Your code should be readable, testable, and understandable years later. You adhere to the Zen of Python.)
• Work well in a fast-paced development environment with testing, continuous integration and multiple daily deploys
• Have the ability to manage complexity in a large project, and incur technical debt only after considering the tradeoffs
• Take a logical approach to problem solving that combines analytical thinking and intuition

Benefits

• Remote Work, Forever. We’re a fully distributed team and have pledged to remain that way forever . We offer employees a full home office setup, phone & internet reimbursement, and a monthly coworking membership
• We build culture through virtual and in-person team bonding opportunities including team lunches, friendly competitions, and celebratory events!
• Transparent Compensation. We offer competitive geo-neutral pay in the U.S. and review compensation at least once annually to ensure internal equity and alignment with the external market
• Depending on the role, we offer either a standardized bonus program or attainable commission structure and an opportunity to earn equity in the company
• All employees are eligible for our 401(k) plan* with employer contributions
• Muck Rack provides comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability and life insurance for employees and their families
• We offer a high-deductible health plan with 100% premium coverage for individuals, as well as a range of other plan options
• Our team also has access to 24/7 Virtual Care, an Employee Assistance Program, employer-funded HSA contributions, and other pre-tax benefits
• Team members have access to a quarterly wellness stipend and a free Headspace subscription
• Our team enjoys 4+ weeks of off-the-grid PTO, paid sick/mental health days and 13 paid holidays, which can be exchanged for additional PTO with our "Holiday Swap Program."
• We also provide up to 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• We grow talent by creating internal pathways for advancement and promotion
• Muck Rack conducts bi-annual performance reviews, hosts team-wide workshops, and offers management training and leadership training opportunities
• We also provide unlimited subscriptions to L&D platforms including Coursera & O’Reilly, as well as 2 additional days of PTO to dedicate to learning and development