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Sr. Web Developer

Brave, San Francisco, CA, United States

Salary min: $140,000.00

Salary max: $150,000.00


The internet is a sea of ads, hackers, and echo chambers. Big Tech makes huge profits off our data, and tells us what’s true and what’s not. Brave is fighting back. Join us!

Summary
Brave is looking for a Senior Web Developer to help to build and maintain various web properties across the organization, with a primary focus on brave.com. In this role, you will work closely with many teams across the organization, but especially our Product, Design, Marketing, and Growth teams. In addition to your primary responsibilities, you may be called upon to assist other teams as well with your expertise, so you should be comfortable with rapid context switching.

We operate in a remote, geographically-distributed work environment.

Requirements

5-10 years of experience building websites professionally

Strong knowledge of various rendering strategies and when to use them

Strong knowledge of CSS strategies/methodologies at scale

Strong written and verbal communication skills in English

A general understanding of SEO practices, and analytics tools such as Matomo (Piwik)

Experience building fully responsive websites across multiple devices/platforms

Understanding of general and frontend web security considerations

Experience working with a frontend framework/library such as React, Vue, Angular, or Svelte

Nice‑to‑have

Basic understanding of Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools

Understanding of CDNs

Experience deploying and managing AWS services and web apps

Experience writing GitHub actions

Experience developing websites/applications that are localized across many languages

Experience with A/B testing

Experience using Figma

Responsibilities

Communicate with Product, Growth, and Marketing teams to determine requirements for landing pages and web assets for new initiatives.

Build high quality landing pages, and all other customer-facing web assets, driven by Product, Growth, and Marketing teams.

Maintain/expand existing websites and web applications, and continuously improve them to a high engineering standard.

Effectively translate designs into fully responsive and performant pages or apps, while collaborating with designers to arrive at the ideal balance of aesthetics and performance.

Rapidly develop prototypes and experiments under tight deadlines.

Ensure high-performance and availability.

Maintain a high security standard.

Set up and maintain redirects.

Work collaboratively with geographically-distributed team members.

Working at Brave

Industry-leader in privacy, with a research and engineering team that’s innovating everyday to keep people safer online and beat Big Tech

Highly competitive salaries & benefits, and generous home-office stipends

Fully remote team (no office, no commute)

Welcoming, humble, ridiculously smart teammates, and a truly flat org structure

Opportunity to get in early at a hyper-growth company, and revolutionize the web

United States Candidates: The salary range for this role is $140,000 - $150,000 depending on experience.

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