Staff Front-End Engineer

Summary

Join Short Story, an award-winning tech-powered retailer for petite women, as one of their first 5 engineers. This high-impact role allows you to shape the user experience and engineering standards. You will work across internal and customer-facing platforms, building tools used daily by customers and stylists. Collaborate closely with designers, product managers, and operators. Establish core front-end patterns and best practices, ensuring scalability, speed, and quality. This is a fully remote position with optional office access in San Francisco and Toronto.

Requirements

• Be passionate about improving the user experience and have built and launched high-quality user-facing products
• Be fluent in TypeScript and CSS, and have extensive experience building scalable applications using NextJS and ReactJS
• Have hands-on experience with React-Query, Tailwind CSS, and front-end tooling like Webpack and Yarn
• Have worked in collaborative development environments using Git and GitHub
• Have translated designs from Figma into elegant and accessible interfaces across multiple devices and browsers
• Be able to establish testing practices and methodologies for the team
• Understand how to optimize front-end performance and build for scalability
• Be thoughtful about documentation, communication, and team enablement
• Thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments where you can own solutions end-to-end
• Be excited by ambiguity and love solving complex problems from end to end

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain high-quality and responsive web applications using NextJS, React-Query, and TailwindCSS
• Collaborate with designers, PMs, and backend engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions that meet both user and business needs
• Translate Figma designs into pixel-perfect, interactive user interfaces
• A/B test various designs to optimize user experience and conversion
• Own technical implementation, contributing to component libraries and scalable front-end architecture
• Actively participate in code reviews to ensure code quality, maintainability, and adherence to standards
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers and interns
• Drive automation in testing using Cypress, Jest, or React Testing Library
• Deploy and manage front-end apps on Netlify, integrating CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Help shape front-end culture and set standards around performance, accessibility, and design consistency

Preferred Qualifications

• Have 5+ years of experience in professional front-end development
• Have experience working in a fast-moving startup environment
• Have experience integrating/building component systems and libraries for large codebases
• Have experience with server-side rendering (SSR) and static site generation (SSG)
• Have worked on sprint-based teams using OKRs or similar frameworks
• Have experience working remotely with global teams
• Have led or built a front-end engineering team before
• Have contributed to open-source or have a strong portfolio of personal projects

Benefits

• 4 weeks vacation (20 days)
• Medical & dental benefits
• Fully remote work with optional office access in San Francisco and Toronto
• Ownership and autonomy in a fast-growing, mission-driven company