Frontend Engineer at UpCodes

While you will mostly do frontend, you'll also be expected to pick up some backend since we like all engineers to be able across the stack.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

• 2+ years of experience building web products, ideally across the stack
• Clean simple code, even when solving complex frontend problems
• Strong sense of UX / UI / design
• Ability to learn new tech quickly

TECHNOLOGY STACK

• TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind, Python, PostgreSQL, Flask, Redis, AWS, Kubernetes

Description

THE ROLE

As a foundational member of our engineering team, you'll take care of all things frontend for new features in our web app.

We have a frequent cadence of shipping new features and a close connection to our market. With 500k monthly active users spending hundreds of thousands of hours on the platform, each contribution and feature you ship will have a meaningful impact for the users.

While you will mostly do frontend, you'll also be expected to pick up some backend since we like all engineers to be able across the stack.

EXAMPLE PROJECTS

• Help us finish the jQuery / CSS to React / Next / Tailwind migration that's currently underway
• Create Rap Genius-style annotations on sections of building code, to create a more interactive user experience
• Review our web app's security
• Tweak CDN configuration to improve SEO scores
• Create dynamic question flow similar to tax software