Front-End Engineer - remote

Zoomforth

Posted 2 years ago

Remote, European or American timezone required

Zoomforth helps customers design and build beautiful no-code websites. Our software makes the complex simple and the boring beautiful. It’s like Squarespace, but for professional communications.

Zoomforth is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) microsite editor with a heavy focus on analytics and security. In Zoomforth, customers can easily build, edit, and host private microsites that are hidden behind a number of security features along with completely public microsites visible to all. Once a microsite is published, analytics data is processed to give users insight on how visitors use their sites.

Join a profitable growth-stage startup and work from anywhere you like. You’ll be joining an amazing team to support some of the most respected startups, agencies, and businesses in the world.

In this role you will be working exclusively on the front-end, which is mostly JavaScript and React code. We are looking for an experienced and independent developer who knows what their ideal front-end codebase looks like. You will have opinions on how things should (and should not) be done and will be able to impart many of them on our codebase.

As our first dedicated front-end developer you will be responsible for taking our front-end to the next level.

Working in this role

As a front-end engineer you will work closely with product design which might require more synchronous meetings than usual

Key tasks

You will mostly be working on new features which will generally require you to create mock UIs against a fake back-end to simulate how the feature would work as a prototype
You will use what we learnt from building these prototypes to implement the actual feature and connect it to a real back-end that someone else on the team implements
You will be improving the front-end codebase by introducing new tools, conventions and workflows
You will be maintaining the front-end codebase by fixing bugs, upgrading packages and configuring tools like Webpack and Babel
You will collaborate closely with the product design and the engineering team

Skills &experience

You have lots of opinions and ideas on what an ideal codebase and workflow should look like. This is not an entry-level role. You have experience and a good understanding of:

JavaScript and one or more frameworks, ideally with some React experience
Configuring code building tools like Webpack and Babel
HTML and how browsers work, browser feature support, accessibility etc.
CSS and using CSS generators like SCSS or PostCSS

Working with us

You will be working remotely in a fully distributed company
You can work from anywhere at any time of day, as long as there’s a window for meetings and connecting with colleagues
The engineering team only has one mandatory meeting every week. You will have plenty of time to focus on your main tasks
Most of our communication is asynchronous and text based

Type of candidate

You are disciplined and self motivated. You don’t need someone to watch your back to do good work. You are expected to be productive with minimal supervision
You are willing to work remotely and ideally have previous experience doing so
You are a problem solver and you’re able to figure things out on your own
You are willing to and enjoy learning new things. We all learn on the job constantly
You are willing to take risks and champion your own ideas
You are able to ask for help when you need it
You are willing to discuss your ideas and can handle both negative and positive feedback. You are also able to give the same back to us

Compensation &Logistics

Salary of $90,000 per year
EMPLOYEES ONLY – Health, vision, and dental insurance
EMPLOYEES ONLY – Unlimited paid vacation
Remote working – work from wherever you like
Flexible hours – work whatever hours suit you best as long as there is overlap when needed
Wellness allowance each month to spend on whatever keeps you happy and well
Protected learning time to study the things that interest you
Opportunities for travel and team retreats – attendance is optional at retreats, but recent trips have included Costa Rica and Italy (pre-pandemic)

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