Senior Front End Software Engineer

Summary/objective:

Angel Studios is seeking an expert React.js developer to build front-end web applications as a member of a fully-remote engineering team.

Essential functions

• Ensure quality through design, processes, and tools in a CI/CD environment.
• Partner with designers, product managers, and engineers to build out new features, fixes, and continuous improvements.
• Deliver features quickly and iteratively.
• Design, build and maintain efficient, secure, reusable, and reliable code that runs performantly across devices under variable memory, screen size, and network constraints.
• Participate in cross-team brownbags, workshop series, standups,  hackathons, etc.
• Analyze application performance and recommend improvements as needed.
• Perform code reviews, testing, and debugging. 
• Provide expert front-end guidance to other engineers.
• Contribute to technical documentation utilized in the Product and Engineering departments.
• Must attend and contribute to scheduled meetings.
• Proficiency in speaking, reading and writing in the English language is required.  Additional language proficiency is a plus. 




Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

Competencies

• Experience with the infrastructure needed to make compelling frontend experiences, such as API development.
• Passionate about careful component design & architectural planning that leads to a codebase that is future-proof and maintainable.
• Enjoy the challenge and opportunity to lead and improve the development experience at Angel Studios by enhancing development tools, test coverage, and code structure.
• Proactive and detail-oriented, yet comfortable working in a dynamic environment with tight deadlines and evolving requirements.
• Self-starter with the ability to seek out opportunities, create an action plan and see it through to fruition.
• Familiarity with Cloud Based Platforms and services.
• Strong collaborator with excellent presentation, communication, and problem solving skills.
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery principles.
• An exceptional listener with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Detail-oriented perspective and able to pick up on overlooked details.
• Organization and time management.
• Able to maintain confidentiality of information.
• Must be able to manage multiple assignments, determine priorities, and adapt to changing conditions.
• Resourceful and able to problem-solve and manage tasks with ambiguity.
• Can take feedback to tasks and assignments positively and create better solutions.
• A quick study, able to pick up new skills and learn how to use new tools and programs.
• Ability to take individual ownership, execute with high energy, share context, insist on candor with positive intent.

Required experience

• 7+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• 5+ years of experience building front-end web applications
• 3+ years of experience within the last 5 years using React.js to build front-end web applications 

Preferred experience

• Expertise in unit testing is strongly preferred
• Experience with Tailwind is a plus
• Experience with GraphQL is a plus
• Experience with next.js is a plus
• Full-stack development experience is a plus
• Additional language proficiency beyond English is a plus. 
• Experience with the Angel Guild strongly preferred

Commensurate with experience and scope of responsibility.