The Role
Sokanu is seeking to expand our front-end engineering team with an experienced engineer capable of taking us to the next level. We have a strong team and a modern front-end stack but are always looking to improve our code quality, expand our test coverage, and explore new approaches to ensuring site reliability and user delight. The ideal candidate has experience building products focused on SEO, accessibility, and user experience, and is capable of developing and maintaining a front-end toolchain.
Responsibilities
- Work tightly with our design and back-end engineering teams to design, develop, test, and maintain new product features
- Build delightful, accessible, user experiences
- Help develop and deploy our new design system
- Help improve and maintain our front-end toolchain and CI / CD pipeline
- Collaborate with back-end engineers to develop API contracts to be consumed by the front-end
Requirements
4+ years experience in front-end engineering3+ years experience with React / VueStrong eye for design and a meticulous approach to creating good user experiencesExperience building and auditing web products with accessibility in mindKnowledge of technical SEO best-practicesNice to Haves
Experience working across the stack (we use Python / Django primarily on our back-end)Experience with Typescript (or typed languages in general)Previous experience working at a startupExperience and desire to mentor junior engineersA background in UX or HCIExperience working with and developing OpenAPI / Swagger specificationsRelevant Tools at Sokanu
Typescript, React, SCSS, PostCSS, Puppeteer, Jest, Webpack, Grunt, CircleCI, Prettier, ESLint, Mixpanel, Python, Django