Sr. Frontend Developer

Sr. Frontend Developer

We are seeking a passionate and skilled Frontend Engineer who excels at crafting delightful web interfaces and implementing innovative features while fostering a high-quality user experience. In this role, you will design, develop, test, and maintain software, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to improving engineering standards within a remote-first, globally distributed team. Ideal candidates will demonstrate strong product intuition, clear communication skills, and the ability to work independently while aligning part of their workday with Pacific Time Zone hours.
Remote Full-time Hiring timeline: 1H25
About the Role

You are a Frontend Engineer who crafts delightful web interfaces, designs, prototypes new and innovative experiences, and implements features while advocating for UX. You are comfortable with ambiguity, listen to user feedback and apply learnings, and have strong product intuition.
Here's a brief look at what success looks like in this role:
In 1 month's time you'll have collaborated with the team to build and have shipped a material contribution such as a new feature, regularly contributed to code reviews, and fixed bugs.
In 3 months time you'll have earned the trust of the team and have taken on independent code review responsibilities while collaborating on the design of new features.
In 6 months time you'll have delivered tasks through the entire SDLC, from design through development with some guidance and have established a cadence of on-time delivery with high-quality work.
This role is also open to remote work as our teams are globally distributed. We are a remote-first team. Prior experience working remotely is not required, however, we are looking for team members who perform well given a high level of independence and autonomy and will establish a cadence of on-time delivery with high-quality work.
Responsibilities

Top priorities: This is the kind of work you can expect to be doing as you come into this role — although we are all Crew, so we help each other succeed outside of these core priorities:
Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software
Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables
Collaborate with product managers and other engineers to own, build, iterate, and ship new features to enhance the the user experience
Collaborate with frontend engineers across teams to collaborate on design decisions and standardize methodologies
Write various kinds of tests including unit, functional, and integration tests
Write and review technical proposals
Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
Program TypeScript, and learning from and contributing to a team committed to continually improving their skills
Conduct periodic on-call duties
Key technologies this role will employ: TypeScript, SolidJS, CSS, HTML, Go (Golang), GCP.
Work in close partnership with Aaron, our Principal Engineer and DROdio (CEO) + Erika (CCO), our Founders
Requirements

Skills required: This is our "must" list -- skills you'll need to be successful in the role
You are able to knowledgeably discuss performance, security, and user interactions within complex systems
You love to build delightful and accessible user experiences using web technologies
You are kind and collaborative
You enjoy working remote with people from all over the world
You care deeply about software quality and operability, and better ways of building software
Value clear, open communication. We value thoughtful feedback, regular dialogue, and collaboration as fundamental skills on our team.
Align a portion of your day with the business hours of Pacific Time Zone - UTC -8
Experience with at least one of the following cloud platforms (Vercel, GCP, AWS, Azure)
The ideal candidate also has: This is our "want" list -- The ideal candidate will also have these skills in addition to the minimums above, but we'd still love to talk to you even if you don't yet have these skills
Experience creating a text editor
Experience building multi-player experiences
Experience building offline apps that resume/reconnect
What does "Great" look like for this role? This is how you'll know you're performing this job at a level of excellence
Be able to deliver and execute with minimal guidance
Operate with a growth mindset
Ability to balance speed with long-term thinking
Proactively thinking about system improvement and unblocking fellow team members
Has adaptability & change agility — this is an ever-changing role with many surprises in store!
Has a "User-focused" mindset.
Knows what values users expect from our system
Proactive in observing and leveraging emerging technologies
Strong ownership, reliability, low ego, team enabler
Life at Storytell

Storytell is an early-stage venture-backed startup with some incredible investors including Eric Ries and Brian McClendon. We are looking for incredible people to join us.
We are building a remote-friendly company. The Founders are based in the San Francisco Bay area and we work in a distributed manner across several US time zones.
Our Shared Values:

We believe that being aligned on our shared values is the foundation of how we build, belong, and how we show up for each other and to the broader ecosystem. You can find our shared values here.
Don't Meet Every Single Requirement?

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Storytell we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
We Offer You an Opportunity to:

Work directly with our C-level executive team
Exercise your problem-solving skills
Learn the fundamentals of a startup
Grow in your career journey through support on many dimensions, such as:
1:1s
Regular trainings
Learning and practicing clean communication
Build our systems and processes
Make a huge contribution to the future of Storytell, AI – and the world!
We will support you if you want to become a Founder someday
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