Front-End Engineer

As a Front End Engineer at Stack Overflow, you’ll work on the Design Systems Team which owns our design system, Stacks. You’ll create and maintain accessible, performant, reusable components for Stack Overflow’s product teams and users. You’ll help drive technology selection (frameworks, package delivery), and implementation (building and documenting individual components). Your work with designers, engineers, and product managers will enable migration of our existing front-end to our shared component library. Some recent projects we've been working on include:

• Continuous improvements to Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow including tools, UX improvements, and features for community members and moderators alike.
• Developing internal tools to automate time-consuming processes for other developers and members of the company and community.
• Centralizing and rebuilding theming across our Teams, Collectives, Stack Exchange Network products.
• Converting the entirety of Stack Overflow to responsive layouts and removing our mobile-specific views.

We expect to see:

• Experience building and maintaining data intensive web applications at scale.
• Demonstrated contribution to building organization-wide, component-based design systems and assisting other teams in their adoption.
• Experience building, shipping, and advocating for accessible components.
• Adept at web fundamentals: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Practical experience migrating code bases to modern JavaScript: component systems, single page applications, TypeScript, etc.
• Experience mentoring less-experienced developers. You know how to build skills and teach others in an empathetic and kind way.
• A desire to collaborate within your team as well as across functions.
• Self-motivation, self-direction, and great communication (written and oral). This does not mean that you need to speak or write English perfectly! You thrive in an environment that grants you a lot of autonomy to explore creative solutions.
• Living and working within GMT-7:00 (US) to GMT+2:00 (Europe) time zones.

We like to see (but not required):

• Familiarity with content management, social media, and user communities.
• Experience working remotely and/or working with teams that are distributed geographically.
• Evidence of community involvement: an active Stack Overflow profile, open source contributions, blog posts, speaking engagements, community volunteering, or any example project that you're proud of.
• Familiarity with static site generation tools (we currently use 11ty).
• Experience with server-side rendering technologies (we currently use Razor views).

Base salary will range from:

150k - 175k USD #LI-SB1 #LI-Remote