Front End Developer

Full time, Remote

The Role

  • Senior Front-end Engineers play a key role in our product engineering squads.
  • You’ll be responsible for helping design, develop and maintain the user interfaces of our communication products and services.
  • Our product engineering squads have the freedom and authority to create impactful products to empower both our internal and external customers.
  • We use an agile development methodology, meaning we deploy code multiple times per day while ensuring our applications are rigorously tested and statically analyzed.

What You’ll Do

  • Work on different aspects of our user facing products and websites, including Inbox, Flow Builder, Customer dashboard and messagebird.com, our Developer Portal.
  • Keep our front-end code up to date using the latest best practices and tools
  • Work closely with a team of designers to make their designs come to life, and keep designs scalable and re-usable by keeping our shared component library up-to-date
  • Make sure our front-end code lives up to performance standards
  • Stay up to date with the latest tools and libraries to benefit user experience, performance, and developer experience
  • Work on products that thousands of people use everyday, sending millions of messages

What You’ll Bring

  • 3+ years experience in a relevant role
  • Extensive knowledge of React, JavaScript and TypeScript, modern HTML and CSS
  • Extensive knowledge of React, JavaScript and TypeScript, modern HTML and CSS
  • You’re comfortable working with modern APIs within web applications - most of our APIs are built with Golang and PHP, exposing REST or GraphQL interfaces. You might even touch their code from time to time.
  • A strong product mindset and experience working in product-based companies. Excellent debugging and investigative skills; you’re capable of finding the cause of an performance issues quickly
  • Firm understanding of how the browser works: you’re capable of explaining it to a 5 year old version of you
  • Quality driven mindset, and experience with tools like Jest and Cypress
  • Experience with setting up complex frontend applications and its build infrastructure, using tools like Snowpack, Babel or Webpack
  • Deep knowledge of Git
  • You enjoy hacking things together to create a proof of concept, but you’re very critical of the code you push to production

What You’ll Gain

  • Work from anywhere
  • Learn from the best minds in the business
  • Collaborate with diverse colleagues from various countries

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