Senior Front-End Developer
Locals
At Locals, We empower creators to be independent.
Founded in 2019 and based in New York, Locals is a platform that empowers independent content creators to publish their content, engage with their supporters, and make money from subscriptions (and not ads), on their own terms.On Locals.com, Creators significantly outperform other platforms in conversion rate to paid, subscription earnings, and positive sentiment.
About the role:
We are looking for a Senior Front-End Developer to join our application engineering team to further develop our web applications. You will be responsible for feature development and maintaining existing applications including work on improving the architecture, the UI/UX, and general application code working against an existing backend system. Working closely with product management and lead developers by crafting an application for use by millions of users.
What you’ll be doing:
- Work closely with the designers, product managers, and engineering leadership to build a high quality user experience.
- Be a part of a new re-architecture initiative, developing code for the new NX Mono Repo, while working closely with other application and backend developers.
- Join the Locals front-end team and construct components using Solid JS in the Solid Start SSR framework.
- Augment our new shared component library and design system through writing new components and storybook stories.
- Facilitate the production launch of new application pages using the new SSR architecture.
- Assure quality through PR code reviews.
- Implement best practices in front-end web development, including TypeScript, Sass/CSS, HTML, and responsive design.
- Use approved Figma designs to write production features.
- Develop test infrastructure ensuring application quality.
- Other duties as assigned.
What you bring to the table:
- 4+ years of development experience shipping production features using React.
- React Next.js SSR experience is preferred, though you will be using these skills to build components in Solid JS and the Solid Start SSR framework.
- Experience with Typescript, Storybook, and React unit testing.
- Proficient in CSS, with expertise in styling components using CSS modules or Styled Components.
- Has a strong eye for UX to build web features across desktop, mobile, and tablet.
- Capable of working in large scale applications, and examples of your previous launched works.
- Experience building high quality apps, supported by strong tests, and using performance.
- Demonstrates a keen understanding of ADA compliance guidelines in web development.
- Adept at breaking down large tasks into smaller, actionable JIRA tickets for efficient completion.
- Possesses key interpersonal skills including problem-solving abilities, leadership qualities, and exceptional time management skills.
- Demonstrates a sense of ownership in managing tasks, ensures timely completion of tickets, and proactively identifies and communicates any potential blockers as they arise.
- Strong communicator who collaborates well with cross functional teams.
- Familiar with agile processes, continuous integration, and working with a remote team.
Remote: Eastern Time Zone only, also willing and able to travel 10-25% of the time (mostly domestic)
EEO Statement:
Locals is an equal opportunity employer.? We promote an equal playing field where everyone has the same opportunities?regardless of?race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.
Physical Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for extended periods of time. Required to extensively talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop and kneel. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.