Senior Frontend Developer

Summary

Storyteller is a platform that allows brands to integrate Stories functionality into their apps and websites. The platform is in use by multiple global brands serving millions of users. We're looking for an amazing Senior Frontend Developer to join our growing team and help push this product on to the next 100 million users.

About Us

Storyteller is a high growth B2B SaaS platform, which allows companies to integrate Stories into their owned and operated platforms. Popularized by Instagram and Snapchat, Stories are perfectly suited for boosting user engagement, audience retention, and driving advertising revenue. For customers, building their own stories experience can take years and a lot of investment however Storyteller has solved this by allowing companies to integrate in days, not years all for one monthly cost. Our end‑to‑end platform gives companies a best‑in‑class Stories experience in days with native iOS, Android, and Web SDKs, publishing tools, analytics, and ad support.

Responsibilities

What can you expect?

• You'll be creating great user experiences from Figma designs by working with designers and other developers.
• Writing accessible and reliable front-end code that works efficiently on all modern browsers.
• Working with the latest web technologies - this mostly means HTML, CSS, JS, React and TypeScript.
• Using build tools like NPM and Webpack.
• Using Git and GitHub to collaborate on code.
• Using tools like Storybook to build and test components.
• Using JIRA, Slack and Zoom to communicate with team members.
• Testing your code on different browsers and devices.
• Testing and measuring performance using tools like Lighthouse.
• Learning and improving upon our internal coding standards.
• Self-evaluating and reviewing your own work, as well as providing feedback on code written by other team members.
• Developing your own skills by learning from other team members and through independent research.
• Deciding when to use an NPM package, which package to use or whether to write your own code and sharing your decision-making process.

Qualifications

What's important for us:

• A minimum of 2 years experience in a similar role, including at least 1 year of experience working with React.
• A relevant degree, we may consider additional professional experience in lieu of a degree.
• Excellent HTML, CSS and JS fundamentals - can write semantic and accessible HTML, and build websites that are performant on modern browsers and devices.
• Experience using component-driven development to efficiently craft first-class web experiences.
• A desire to build fantastic user experiences on the web.
• Know how to write CSS and have experience using at least one methodology for keeping it maintainable - we normally use ITCSS with SCSS and component-driven development.
• Ability to learn and apply best practices during development for the purpose of keeping code maintainable, readable, and performant.
• Has an interest in creating well-crafted user experiences. An interest in UI/UX design is a bonus too.

Your Working Environment

• Modern Tech Stack: We use the latest tools, hardware and methodologies across our teams. We’re always on the look-out for new ways of working and ensure everyone is setup with enough hardware firepower to excel, Windows or Mac.
• Agility & Openness for Ideas: We actively encourage the entire team to share their ideas, with that in mind we regularly adopt and implement suggestions across the company, you’re the specialist here!
• Outstanding People: We believe that great teams are built by a mixture of personality, skills and a passion for what people do. We’re a small, start-up team with around 40 people onboard.
• Flexibility: We’re a remote-first company and support 100% remote working for this role. The working hours for this role is 9am - 5:30pm UK/EU time.

Payment

Up to 80,000 EUR per year (or local currency equivalent), depending on experience and skills.

Contract Type

Full time contractor contract - fully remote working from anywhere in Europe!

Recruitment Process

First, you will be invited for a 30-minute pre-interview via MS Teams. We usually ask about your previous experience, future career path and motivation for changing your job. Depending on this, the next step would be a technical task, followed by the final interview with Dave, our CTO and Murray – it’s a mix of technical and culture-fit questions. And that’s it!