Senior Frontend Software Engineer

Summary

Join Backstage as a remote Senior Frontend Engineer and be part of a passionate web team developing cutting-edge technology for a rapidly growing company. You will partner with various teams to create user-friendly interfaces for desktop and mobile web applications, leveraging a modern tech stack including TypeScript and React. This individual contributor role offers autonomy and the opportunity to influence frontend architecture decisions. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience building large-scale web applications, advanced proficiency in TypeScript and React, and strong project management and communication skills. Backstage values a culture of constant learning and improvement, offering a collaborative and fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• Proven experience building a major product or feature from scratch at scale for a large public-facing web application
• Advanced proficiency with Typescript and React
• Proficient with CSS
• Deep understanding of various state management and data fetching approaches in the React ecosystem
• Knowledgeable of the trade-offs of different rendering techniques (server-side-rendering, static-site-generation, client-side rendering)
• Familiarity with common front-end build tools such as Webpack and Vite
• Experience incrementally rolling out new features, components or refactors without blocking the rest of the team, and iterating upon and maintaining live products
• Strong project management skills; able to organize, adhere to process, and execute projects across disciplines and by deadline
• Excellent communication skills; you can articulate clearly, thoroughly, and concisely to technical and non-technical audiences
• Comfortability with the entire development life cycle (inception to release) in an Agile environment
• Collaborative, engaged, and adaptable; you are comfortable joining a team with a large, mature codebase with established engineering processes
• Flexible and proactive, you’re able to shift gears quickly in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

• Partner with product, marketing, business intelligence, and design teams to create beautiful, usable interfaces for desktop and mobile web
• Design engineering plans to meet the requirements of the product or goal
• Leverage a modern tech stack, including TypeScript and React, to build complex web applications
• Contribute to and influence the overall frontend architecture decisions
• Work closely with product, marketing, and customer service to translate customer feedback into successful features and tools
• Collaborate with front-end engineers outside your feature team to maintain shared code and front-end infrastructure
• Coordinate with back-end engineers to provide a cohesive experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with TailwindCSS
• Familiarity with Python and/or Django

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• PTO
• Health and wellness programs
• Employee discounts