Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Assembled is a company focused on optimizing customer support with a unified platform that integrates human agents and AI. The Frontend Engineer will own the foundations of the frontend, ensuring high performance and quality while collaborating closely with designers and product managers to enhance user interfaces.
Responsibilities
- Own frontend infrastructure & deployment: Build and maintain the tooling our frontend runs on (bundling, linting, type-checking, testing setup, and CI/CD). You'll own the frontend developer experience end to end
- Build and evolve our component system: Design and maintain our design system and component library, ensuring we focus on clean component APIs, theming, accessibility, and documentation and drive adoption so teams build on consistent, high-quality building blocks
- Champion frontend performance & best practices: Set and uphold patterns for performance, code quality, and architecture. Profile and optimize bundle size, load, and render performance, and raise the bar through code review and mentorship
- Collaborate with designers, engineers, and PMs on features: Help audit, design, and build foundational UI and UX across the product, with an emphasis on polished, performant interfaces, prototyping interactions, and data visualization
- Interact with end users: Jump in on customer feedback and talk with users to understand how they use the product and what's getting in their way
Skills
- 2+ years experience building production web applications: You can build high-quality web applications with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and are familiar with web frameworks such as React
- Curious and informed about web trends: You like to stay abreast of UI/UX trends and the latest innovations in web technology. Bonus: you have some knowledge and interest in helping with front-end infrastructure (build processes, testing libraries, etc.)
- Web accessibility familiarity: You are familiar with and driven to create products that meet or exceed accessibility standards. You have an idea of how to resolve common accessibility issues
- Attention to UX and UI details: You have keen skills in interaction design. You care about grid layout, button and form states and styles, typography, navigation, and way-finding. You have an eye for consistency and polish. Bonus: You have opinions about tables and charts and how to communicate data interactively in effective and compelling ways
- Excited to educate colleagues: You are a good communicator who is excited to educate and mentor others on best practices. You can write clearly and concisely, and are able to provide critical feedback on code
- An instinct for product and business needs: You are curious about user needs, and are excited to develop and share opinions about product direction, and what will have impact for our users and the business
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Generous medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Paid company holidays, sick time, and unlimited time off
- Monthly credits to spend on each: professional development, general wellness, Assembled customers, and commuting
- Paid parental leave
- Catered lunches every day (M-F) and fully stocked kitchen
- 401(k) plan enrollment
- Stock options are provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered.
Company Overview
Assembled is a workforce management platform that helps modern organizations scale customer support teams. It was founded in 2018, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.assembled.com.