Senior Frontend Engineer (React)

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$120K — $160K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of frontend engineering experience
  • Proficiency with React, Redux, Node, and Electron
  • Full-stack experience with Java, C#, and C++ is a bonus
  • Willingness to work in-person in NYC (5 days a week)
  • Strong ownership and attention to detail in feature development
  • Solid understanding of code performance and profiling tools
  • Experience in leveraging metrics and A/B testing for performance evaluation
  • Passion for gaming and familiarity with gaming communities

Responsibilities

  • Build high-quality features for a large-scale application
  • Collaborate with leadership and community to gather feedback and iterate on features
  • Quickly prototype and validate new experiences for users
  • Take ownership of complex features from inception to deployment
  • Ensure high code quality and performance in production environments
  • Analyze user metrics to drive feature development decisions
  • Participate actively in a team to contribute to shaping the product direction

Benefits

  • Collaboration with a talented engineering team
  • Opportunities for regular feature shipping and user feedback
  • In-person work environment to foster teamwork
  • Exposure to a broad technology stack including modern web and backend technologies
  • Ability to influence product strategy and development with a focus on user experience
Full Job Description
The Role

You'll join a talented team of engineers experienced with large-scale applications, helping scale the platform to 100+ million users by building high-quality features that creators love and creating new experiences for the next generation of gamers. Most of your work will be in React on our Electron app, where you'll iterate quickly to see which features stick, working directly with leadership and our community to ship features regularly.
What We're Looking For
  • 5+ years of frontend engineering experience
  • Experience with React, Redux, Node, and Electron: You'll spend most of your time building things with React and will need to understand modern React practices and JavaScript in general
  • Bonus to have full-stack XP: including Java, C#, and C++
  • In-person: Looking to hire in NYC to contribute alongside the product team. 5 days in the office
  • Ownership & attention to detail: You see things through, and can be responsible for end-to-end quality of complex features
  • Code Performance: Excellent understanding of code performance implications in production and confident with profiling tools
  • Be result-driven: Everything we do is driven by the metrics and performance of the feature. We move fast and ship regularly
  • Measuring with metrics: Comfort with A/B testing and measuring results with usage metrics
  • Gaming: A passion for games and the gaming communities, and a user of Discord and other gaming-adjacent products. XP working on gaming-related projects is a plus
Our Stack

Electron, React, Redux, Styled Components & other modern web-based technologies
C# and C++ for native Windows recording & more
Swift for iOS, Kotlin for Android
Java, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes for backend
Terraform, Salt, GitHub Actions, CircleCI for IaC and CI/CD

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