Senior Frontend Developer

Responsibilities 

● Improve perceived performance of Studio: 

○ Improve Studio's quality by addressing usability gaps, improving stability, and ensuring reliability across diverse customer use cases. 

○ Improve the drag-and-drop interactions to lift our Canvas UX to the next level of reliability, resilience, and user delight. 

○ Dogfood Studio extensively across diverse use cases (e.g. SSR setups, custom components). 

○ Improve regression by ensuring automated test courage for every feasible fix. 

○ Improve observability, and traceability of issues before they reach customers. 

● Improve Developer Experience of Studio: 

○ Improve developer-facing documentation and workflows, ensuring smooth SDK integration for customers.

○ Build tools or utilities to help developers set up and integrate with Studio, and for us to gain better observability. 

○ Provide improved support and best practices for meta frameworks (e.g. Next.js) and emerging technologies like React Server Components. 

Required Skills 

● Frontend Development Expertise: 

○ Substantial experience using React, TypeScript and Next.js. 

○ Strong experience building or optimizing drag-and-drop heavy user experiences. 

○ Solid understanding of component lifecycles and state management (pref. Zustand) 

○ Hands-on experience designing, building, or maintaining SDKs, ideally featuring a plugin architecture. 

○ Proven ability to build fast, interactive websites with responsive design and complex integrations, such as e-commerce systems or third-party APIs. 

● Testing and Debugging: 

○ Strong debugging skills for complex web applications with an iframe architecture and plug-in system. 

○ Solid background in automated testing with experience in both unit and e2e testing (pref. Cypress). 

○ Experience with client-side logging and error reporting tools (e.g. Sentry, New Relic). 

● Soft Skills and Collaboration 

○ Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical challenges and solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders. 

○ A collaborative mindset, comfortable working closely with other engineers, designers, and product teams to address complex challenges. 

○ Proactive problem-solving, with a focus on driving impact quickly and efficiently in a fast-moving environment. 

○ Attention to detail and an ability to balance short-term fixes with long-term maintainability. 

Preferred 

● Experience with Similar Tools: Familiarity with platforms focused on empowering non-technical personas to build web experiences with little developer support (e.g. Builder.io: Visual Development Platform - Builder.io or Webflow) 

● Headless CMS Experience: Knowledge of headless CMS platforms

● No-code tools: Prior experience building no-code tools. 

● Personalization & Experimentation: Exposure to tools like Ninetailed, Optimizely, or other systems supporting content personalization or A/B testing.