Frontend Engineer
📋 Role Overview & Responsibilities
About The Role
As a small team, we’re all generalists, constantly pick up new challenges, and interface with customers regularly. Regarding product and code, we’re looking to work with experienced people who can pick a problem and solve it. We don’t expect you to have a background in all the tools we use, but we expect strong JavaScript fundamentals and a background working with Next.js, React, and TypeScript.
What You’ll Do
Develop new user-facing features. Build high-quality features and ship quickly. Raise the bar on polish. Collaborate with our designer to refine a UI system adaptable to our customers’ brands. Manage our frontend infrastructure. You’ll lead our implementation of Storybook, improve our CI/CD pipeline, optimize our web application's performance, and implement application monitoring. Earn trust with customers. Talk with developers from early-stage startups, growth-stage businesses, and large enterprises to understand their needs. Build our team. We’re growing, and you will work directly with the CEO, CTO, and other founding members to bring in talented engineers.
What You’ll Bring
4+ years of professional frontend development, ideally some of which you’ve spent in startupsSignificant experience working with JavaScript/TypeScript and ReactPrevious experience working closely with designers, building flexible, composable libraries and componentsAn attention to detail with a high degree of craftA customer-first mindset and an interest in talking with customers to make sure we’re building a polished product that meets their needs
What We Offer
Interesting and challenging workOwnership of projects end-to-end while wearing multiple hatsFirst-hand experience building an early-stage startupA salary of $156,000 to $192,000 and equityLiving proximity bonus of $18,000 per year if you choose to live near the officeMeals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) at the officeHealth, dental, and vision insuranceUnlimited vacation
OUR TECH STACK
NextJS + Vercel (Frontend)Fern (API)Microservices: Express (NodeJs), FastAPI (Python)Postgres DB + Prisma ORMAWS (Cloud)
About Fern
APIs underpin the internet but are still painful to work with. They are often untyped, unstandardized, and out-of-sync across multiple sources of truth.
Fern enables businesses to offer “Stripe-level” SDKs (client libraries) and Docs for their REST API. Inspired by internal tooling we saw at AWS and Palantir, we’re building Fern to let every engineering team offer easy-to-use and well-documented APIs.
Founded in 2022, we’re less than 10 people, building open source, and backed by YCombinator. We work together in our office in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. Our customers include Cohere, ElevenLabs, Webflow, and Merge.dev.
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