Sr. Front-End Engineer
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Hi I’m Bret, VP of Engineering at Craftsy, and I lead our energetic and driven Engineering team.
What will give you bonus points:
Our mission here is to fuel self-expression for those who can't help but create. Combining best-in-class expertise in digital marketing, technology, content and eCommerce, Craftsy is one of the fastest growing and most successful startups in the US. Located in sunny, stunning Denver, CO, we’ve raised over $100MM from the world-class investors who backed Facebook, LinkedIn, and Blue Apron.
We’re looking for a Sr. Front-End Engineer to join our team! We believe strongly in the power and maintainability of single responsibility code modules, while also sharing code across as many platforms as possible (Web, iOS, and Android mostly). Though we call ourselves a React and React-Native shop, we’re open to any tool that helps us develop a sustainable and cutting edge experience.
As a Sr. Front-End Engineer, you’ll help build out the front-end of our site and native apps. We’re looking for someone who has new ideas and will push our current team!
As a Senior Front End Engineer, you will:
- Work cross-functionally to create scalable, fast and efficient front-end applications to help drive our company forward
- Work with powerful, reusable, and extensible JavaScript libraries in a continuously growing codebase
- Prepare cross-browser/cross-platform compliant JavaScript code for node, modern browsers and native devices.
- Integrate interactive prototypes (HTML, CSS, React-Native), service calls, tracking and state management to create a fluid web and native applications
- Work with bundling tools like WebPack (v2) to manage web deployment packages.
- Work with React-Native to bridge native components to React-Native when needed.
You’ll be a great fit if you have:
- Wired JavaScript/HTML/CSS/REST stubs
- Experience with frameworks such as React+Flux, Redux, React-Native, Meteor, Knockout, Ember, or AngularJS
- Experience with npm-style packages and dependencies
- Built React-Native apps and have an understanding of the native IDEs around React-Native.
- A desire for a fast-paced work environment
- Worked in a team environment on scalable Node.js driven front-end systems
- Experience writing unit and/or functional tests within frameworks like Mocha, Jest, or Selenium
- A want to write code across web and native platforms
- A love for nerding out on conversations about best practices
- A predisposition for being responsible for your own bugs (No throwing over the fence here!)
What will give you bonus points:
- Strong understanding of component design and architecture
- Experience developing for a smart mobile platform (iPhone/Android)
- Appreciation of functional programming concepts (especially immutability, idempotence, and side-effects)
- Experience with redux, omniscient, elm, react-native and/or RxJS
To be considered for this role, please submit:
- Your resume, of course! Share your professional experience and top accomplishments in one page.
- Answer the following prompt in place of a traditional cover letter:
- Tell us about a time you solved an interesting problem outside the scope of your role with code.
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