At Writer, you'll be working closely with the founders and the engineering team to build, manage, and scale a user experience that tens of thousands of people rely on every day.

As a frontend engineer, you’ll build key feature sets for the Writer product, manage our in-house design system, and optimize our frontend code for performance and responsiveness. We’re looking for someone with great UX and UI sensibilities who can make thoughtful, beautiful decisions on things usually decided by PMs and designers.

You’ll need solid knowledge of JavaScript and TypeScript, HTML, and CSS. We’re also looking for strength in with MobX, React and Redux.

You’ll be our resident expert on frontend best practices and be a player/coach with the rest of the frontend team.

🦸🏻‍♀️ Your responsibilities

Build modular, reusable components and features for Writer’s web app
Extend our product design system and empower other engineers to build well-designed features efficiently
Integrate in-house and third party systems via APIs
Make sure every part of the web app is staggeringly fast
Work closely with our product team to design and develop new features
Contribute to an early, special team and help us build on our strong engineering culture

⭐️ Is this you?

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
7+ years professional Software engineering experience working on modern web ecosystems
5+ years professional experience with MobX, React, Typescript, Javascript, HTML, RESTful API, CSS, and other front-end technologies
Proactive communication skills, both sync and async
Sets the highest possible UX and UI bar for what you ship: it’s consumer-grade or bust
A love for writing

➕ Preferred Skills

Expereince as a techncial lead
ATOMIC approach, Storybooks
NX, Github actions, PNPM,
Conducting Jest/Vite tests and leveraging ESBuild
Experience with Vue.js

🍩 Benefits & Perks (US Full-time Employees)

Generous PTO, plus company holidays
Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family
Paid parental leave for all parents (12 weeks)
Fertility and family planning support
Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri
Flexible spending account and dependent FSA options
Health savings account for eligible plans with company contribution
Annual work-life stipends for:
Home office setup, cell phone, internet
Wellness stipend for gym, massage/chiropractor, personal training, etc.
Learning and development stipend
Company-wide off-sites and team off-sites
Competitive compensation, company stock options and 401k

_Writer is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to diversity. We don't make hiring or employment decisions based on race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law. Under the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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