Build delightful software for podcasts and spoken word audio. Backtracks is seeking a qualified Mid-Senior Front End Developer to join our Product & Engineering Team.

Opportunity

Backtracks helps audio content creators and brands know and grow their audience and revenue. You will be responsible for building the client-side of our web applications and platform to deliver delightful experiences to our users.

Your day-to-day

• Prototype, design, and implement improvements to new and existing portions of our platform, website, and applications
• Improve appeal and usability of our different products
• Code and deploy new features in collaboration with our product and engineering teams
• Be part of a small team, with a large amount of ownership and responsibility for managing things directly
• Ship high-quality solutions with a sense of urgency and speed
• Work closely with both internal and external stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution.
• Have the freedom to suggest and drive initiatives

We expect you to be a tech-savvy professional, who is curious about new digital technologies and aspires to combine usability with visual design. Ultimately, you should be able to create a functional and attractive digital environment for our company, ensuring a great user experience.

You have

• History of autonomous design decision making at technically focused companies

• History of designing and building web components, products, and technology

• History of focusing on user experience

• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)

• Experience working on design and development in any of the following roles:

• Product Developer

• Product Engineer

• Front End Designer and Developer

• Front End Engineer

• UI Designer/Developer

• Full Stack Engineer

• Full Stack Developer

• Front-end Designer and Developer

• Front-end Engineer

• Frontend Designer and Developer

• Frontend Engineer

• Strong knowledge of:

• Javascript (ES6+)

• Vue.js

• Know when to use immutable types, observables, reactive patterns, reduce, spread, etc.

• You also know and subscribe to simple is better (you know when plain JavaScript with no framework is best)

• CSS, SCSS

• Compilation, bundling, and packaging via Webpack, Babel, etc.

• Front end frameworks (specifically Vue or React)

• Integrating APIs, web services, and remote data

• Nodejs and npm

• Confidence or experience working with:

• TypeScript

• CSS-in-JS

• Front end test frameworks (Cypress, Karma)

• Experience with front end build/deployment processes (Webpack, Babel, CI/CD)

• Strong design skills including understanding of layout aesthetics

• Motivation and an enjoyment for a startup environment

• Systems thinker (consider how components can scale across our platform and product offerings)

• The ability to code and build out designs independently from no mock up all the way to working CSS/HTML/JS

• A blend of product, system, and people knowledge that lets you jump into a fast paced environment and contribute from day one

• An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions

• Strong work sense of ownership

• Strong collaboration and communication skills (fluency in English)

• PMA (Positive Mental Attitude)

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, relevant field, and/or relevant work experience

• 5+ years professional experience

Other qualities and traits

• Passion for podcasts, radio, and spoken word audio
• Passion for delivering high-quality designs with quick turnaround times (e.g. you ship)
• A product-first approach to building software
• An enthusiasm for solving hard problems
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment

Bonus points if you have experience with

• Web performance (time-to-interactive, dependencies, wasted renders)
• Node-based serverside APIs
• Audio processing and interaction on the front-end

Salary or Compensation

$80,000 — $150,000/year