Staff Frontend Engineer

Medium is building the best place for reading and writing on the internet—a place where thoughtful ideas can find an audience, and where writers, experts, and storytellers are rewarded for depth rather than for capturing fleeting attention.

Every day, millions of people come to Medium to read stories that expand their understanding of the world. Behind that experience is a web platform that powers everything from discovery and publishing to subscriptions and community.

We are a fully remote company with teammates across the U.S. and France. Our work is shaped by four operating principles: Humans First, Deepen Understanding, Orient for Impact, and Ladder Together. We believe the internet should reward meaningful ideas, and we’re building the technology to support that vision.

Role Overview

As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you will help shape the technical direction of Medium’s web platform and the systems that power our reader and writer experiences.

This is a high-impact individual contributor role. You’ll lead complex frontend initiatives, influence architectural decisions, and establish patterns that improve how teams build and ship web products. Your work will span both product development and platform evolution, ensuring the web stack remains fast, reliable, and capable of supporting new features and experiences.

Staff Engineers at Medium act as technical leaders across teams. You’ll partner closely with engineers, designers, and product leaders to tackle ambiguous problems, drive alignment on technical approaches, and raise the bar for frontend engineering across the organization. If this sounds like you, we’d love to connect!

Key Responsibilities

• Lead complex, high-impact frontend initiatives end-to-end, partnering with multiple teams to deliver experiences used by millions of readers and writers.
• Provide technical leadership within and across teams by shaping architecture, guiding implementation approaches, and helping engineers execute effectively.
• Remain deeply hands-on in the codebase, contributing high-quality code and setting the standard for frontend engineering practices.
• Raise the bar on Medium’s web architecture, engineering standards, and development patterns across the organization.
• Partner closely with product leadership and designers to build thoughtful, user-centered experiences with a high level of polish.
• Improve performance, reliability, and maintainability across Medium’s web platform.
• Mentor engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, and design discussions.
• Help identify and solve the most impactful technical challenges across the web stack.
• Contribute to the technical direction and engineering culture of the broader organization.
• Attend Medium’s twice-yearly, in-person offsites (hosted in locations around the U.S.).

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• You have strong frontend fundamentals (rendering, state management, performance profiling, browser behavior, and testing strategy).
• You have a track record of mentoring engineers and raising the quality bar across teams.
• You embrace ambiguous problems and drive them toward clear solutions.
• You are product minded and care deeply about UX and polish, and help us deliver delightful experiences to our users.
• You make pragmatic tradeoffs and communicate decisions clearly.
• You leverage and experiment with new AI tools effectively while applying strong engineering judgement.
• You sweat the small stuff. You care about copy, grammar, and consistency.
• You’re focused on outcomes, not egos, and give direct feedback early and often.
• You care about and contribute to the culture of the engineering org.

Nice to Haves

• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer building complex and scalable frontend systems and components.
• Experience working on large-scale consumer or content platforms.
• Deep proficiency in React and Typescript (Bonus: GraphQL, AWS, experimentation frameworks).
• Experience operating at scale (millions of users, continuous delivery, feature flags, A/B testing).
• Experience improving testing infrastructure, developer tooling, or testing practices across frontend teams.
• You’ve personally used Medium and are excited to contribute to Medium’s mission of deepening understanding through human storytelling!

Benefits

In addition to the new skills you'll pick up, here's what else you'll enjoy by working at Medium:

• Working with a fully distributed team: We’re fully remote and have teammates across the U.S. & France.
• Healthcare benefits covered at 100% for employees and 70% for dependents.
• Generous parental leave policy.
• Mental health support through Talkspace.
• Financial wellness support through Northstar.
• Stipends for co-working, professional development, wifi, and a one-time home office bonus.
• Unlimited PTO and standard company holidays.
• A discounted Medium membership!

At Medium, inclusion, diversity, and equity are core to how we work and what we build. We believe a more inclusive team creates a better product—one that’s intuitive, thoughtful, and serves a wide range of users. We strive to foster a supportive, fun, and challenging environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive.

We welcome applicants from all walks of life and strongly encourage those from historically underrepresented groups to apply. Our hiring process is built to ensure fairness and equal opportunity for everyone. Even if your experience doesn’t match every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you—your perspective and passion matter more than checking every box.

Learn more about our mission, operating principles, and culture:

• Yes to a diverse community
• Be part of a better internet
• Medium Rules
• Operating Principles

Read about our story here.

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Salary Range

$200,000 - $265,000 USD

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