Frontend SDE II
Slate Magazine3 days ago
Remote, United StatesMid Level
Base Salary
$120k - $179k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deliver performant, reliable, and intuitive customer-facing web and mobile experiences.
- Lead the implementation and evolution of frontend systems, including component design, state management, and UI architecture.
- Write clean, maintainable code and participate in code reviews and technical design discussions.
- Own code quality end-to-end, including testing, edge-case handling, and production readiness.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and UX to translate customer needs into technical solutions.
- Make and communicate thoughtful trade-offs among speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
- Continuously simplify and improve systems while demonstrating sound engineering judgment.
- Mentor other engineers through example, feedback, and technical discussion.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience, with an emphasis on frontend or customer-facing web development.
- Strong proficiency in modern frontend languages, ideally TypeScript, React, and JavaScript, plus fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and problem decomposition.
- Experience building and maintaining production UI systems, including performance optimization, accessibility, and cross-browser compatibility.
- At least 3 years contributing to frontend architecture and design for maintainability, reliability, and scalability.
- At least 3 years working across the full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build tooling, testing, and operational support.
- Familiarity with cloud-backed environments, API integration, CI/CD pipelines, and AWS and/or Azure.
- Strong communication skills, including clarifying questions, stating assumptions, identifying constraints, and explaining technical decisions in ambiguous situations.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, vacation, and 401k benefits.
- Potential eligibility for an equity program and/or discretionary annual incentive program, subject to applicable program rules.
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis.
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About Slate Magazine
Slate is a digital magazine that covers politics, culture, technology, and current events through reported articles, analysis, newsletters, and a large slate of podcasts. Founded in 1996, it is published by The Slate Group, a unit of Graham Holdings, with offices in New York and Washington, D.C. Its business model combines advertising with reader revenue, including the Slate Plus membership program for bonus content and ad-free podcasts.