Senior Frontend Engineer

About the team

Typeform is a leading provider of innovative survey and data collection solutions, known for our flagship product, Typeform. We empower businesses and organizations worldwide to collect, manage, and analyze data more interactively and engagingly.

About the Role

As a Senior Frontend Engineer in our team, your role focuses on delivering key product features, ensuring an exceptional experience for our customers. You will collaborate on developing these new features, reviewing pull requests coming from other teams, maintain the code quality owned by our team by writing tests and refactoring the code base considering best practices, participate in the team ceremonies, and discuss the technical solutions with their peers, product managers and designers

Things you will do:

• Develop and maintain high-quality React applications with TypeScript: Collaborate with the development team to develop, and optimize web apps, open-source libraries (Embed SDK), and developer portal, using React, Next.js, and TypeScript.
• Implement and maintain styling and UI/UX best practices: Collaborate closely with Design & create reusable and responsive UI components, adhering to established design guidelines, and optimizing for performance.
• Manage and optimize CI/CD pipelines: Work closely with the team to configure, maintain, and improve GitHub Actions pipelines for continuous integration and deployment, ensuring code quality and delivery of new features and bug fixes.
• Implement and execute testing strategies: Write and maintain comprehensive unit tests using Jest, ensuring code coverage and robustness, and conduct end-to-end and screenshot testing with Cypress and VRT to validate application functionality and visual consistency.
• Doing Root-Cause-Analysis (RCA) exercises and leading/contributing to postmortems for incidents.
• Be part of an on-call rota to react to any alerts our monitoring system raises during and outside office hours.
• Collaborate and communicate effectively: Actively participate in code reviews, communicate progress and blockers to the team, and contribute to continuously improving development processes and best practices. You will be working in a team of engineers, PMs, designers, etc. all with very diverse and interesting backgrounds.
• Grow: use your annual learning budget to take courses and go to conferences. There’ll be plenty of opportunities for advancement in the role.  

What you already bring to the table:

• Solid understanding of React, TypeScript, or Next.js, with the ability to build efficient and reusable components.
• Proficiency in UI/UX design principles and best practices for creating responsive and visually appealing applications.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, preferably with experience in GitHub Actions.
• In-depth knowledge of testing methodologies and tools such as Jest, Cypress, and VRT.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging abilities to quickly identify and resolve issues in a complex application environment.
• Strong time management and organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks effectively and meet project deadlines.
• Proficiency in version control systems, preferably Git, to collaborate seamlessly with team members.
• Ability to write clean, efficient, and maintainable code, following best practices and established coding standards.

Extra awesome:

• Preferred Bachelor Degree in Computer Science
• The ideal candidate will have prior experience in frontend development, with a strong background in React, TypeScript, and Next.js.