Staff Frontend Engineer

About this Role

Join the team at Fandom and work with great people who are passionate about Fans. As Staff Frontend Engineer, you will build user-facing features for our massive audience of 315M+ unique visitors per month. We use the latest frontend technologies, and build engagement features across the Fandom platform using rapid data-driven development. You get to own large and meaningful projects.

You Will...

• Lead web projects at Fandom scale 
• Drive experimentation to confront the hardest problems we are solving at Fandom
• Partner with Product Management and engineering teams to build new features across the fandom platform
• Solve the most complex and challenging engineering problems
• Contribute to the strategic direction and plan the roadmap for your team
• Lead internal standards of style, maintainability, security, and performance for at-scale frontend web projects
• Identify critical systems that need to change and features that need to be built to deliver on upcoming projects
• Keep up to date with the frontend ecosystem and share knowledge with engineers across fandom
• Mentor other frontend engineers

You Have...

• 6+ years of experience with front end web technologies
• Expert at core web and browser concepts (eg. how the browser parses and constructs a web page, how data is stored and accessed in only a browser context)
• HTML, CSS, and core JavaScript
• ReactJS or another modern JavaScript web framework (Vue, Angular, Ember, etc)
• Bundling tools (webpack, rollup, parcel, etc)
• Develop user-facing software
• Write automated tests (eg. Jest, Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, AVA, tape)
• Comfort working in a highly iterative software development process and AB testing
• Testing methodologies (unit, integration, happy paths)

Bonus Points if You Have...

• A strong sense of web design and attuned to the fundamentals of user experience
• Experience with the latest and greatest web standards, including fetch, service workers, etc.
• Scripting experience (python or Node.js)
• Backend language (Java, PHP, or Node.js)
• Jenkins or other automation tools

Benefits & Perks

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision
• Stock options
• Training (unlimited Udemy + more)
• Flexible working hours and time off
• Open, energetic and fan-focused, international work environment

About Fandom

Fandom is the world’s largest fan platform where fans immerse themselves in imagined worlds across entertainment and gaming. Reaching more than 315 million unique visitors per month and hosting more than 250,000 wikis, Fandom.com is the #1 source for in-depth information on pop culture, gaming, TV and film, where fans learn about and celebrate their favorite fandoms.

Fandom is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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