Frontend Engineer

Description

We're looking for someone to join our engineering team as a Frontend Engineer here at Zapier. Interested in building an app that will help the world automate their work so they can get back to living? We're just getting started. Read on…

ABOUT YOU

You love architecting things. Most of what you'll do on a daily basis is designing, building and maintaining the Zapier frontend architecture which is currently based (though not fixed) on Backbone.js, Coffeescript & Javascript, React, and a clean REST API to the backend.

You are passionate about site performance. You'll decide things like how our assets get built and served, where our REST API can be optimized, and how to improve page load performance. Speed is your middle name.

You are well-versed in the trade-offs regarding single page applications. You can apply your hard-earned insights to make our stack faster, simpler, and more standard.

You value how well apps work with modern browsers – and can execute to implement. You worry about things like frontend URL schemes, cross-browser and cross-device compatibility, asset performance, cookie handling, syncing across tabs/devices, frontend cacheing schemes, and things we haven't even considered.

You love doing things efficiently. At Zapier, the work you do will have a disproportionate impact on the business. We believe in systems and processes that let us scale our impact to be larger than ourselves.

You love to set your own course. At Zapier, we have quick team meetings each week and one-on-one meetings every month and then we go make things happen. You get to make things happen without someone saying so.

ABOUT THE JOB
Zapier is a startup, so you'll likely get your hands dirty in a little bit of everything. That said, here are some things you'll get to lead:

Guide direction, build out, and maintain the Zapier frontend (specifically, 1-4 above)

Write backend code to support yourself on the frontend

Ship to thousands of active users every day

Work and ship product independently

Give back to the community via open source and blog posts

Help customers via support to ensure they have the best experience possible

Experiment: this is a startup so everything can change

PERKS & COMPENSATION
If you want to work remote, that's cool. If you want to work near others, that's cool too. Our team is distributed across the world because it lets us work with the best people. You don't have to be located in the USA either, you just have to be talented!

Compensation:

Competitive salary

Great healthcare + dental + vision coverage

2-3 annual company retreats to awesome places

Pick your own equipment. We'll set you up with whatever laptop + monitor combo you want plus any software you need.

Unlimited vacation policy (plus we insist you take at least 2 weeks off each year - this isn't a vague policy where unlimited vacation means no vacation).

Work with awesome companies around the world. We partner with the best software companies in the world and you'll constantly get to interact with people from these great companies.

Set your own destiny. As an early frontend engineer, you have the opportunity to shape the position and role to be what you want it to be.

ABOUT THE EMPLOYER
For the past three years, Zapier has been helping people across the world automate the boring and tedious parts of their job. We do that by helping everyone connect the web applications they already use.

We believe that there are jobs that a computer is best at doing and that there are jobs that a human is best at doing. We want to empower businesses everywhere to create processes and systems that let computers do what they are best at doing and let humans do what they are best at doing.

We believe that with the right tools, you can have 10X the impact with less work.

We believe in small teams. Small teams are fast and nimble. Small teams mean less bureaucracy and less management and more getting things done.

We believe that credentials are not needed. Our head of development has a finance degree. Our head of business and marketing has an engineering degree. Our head of product has a mechanical engineering degree. What you love doing is way more important than the credentials you have.

TO APPLY
Applying is simple.

Send an email (make sure to include the role you're applying for!)

Tell me about yourself (Include links to your portfolio/github profile/website/twitter/etc.)

Tell me about your experience with rich web applications, trade-offs you've learned the hard way, and how you would architect one if starting from scratch today

Include a link to at least one live-on-the-internet web application you were at least 75% responsible for designing and building (hobby or professional)

Rank the following in order from what you do best, the first being the best (For example, "d, a, c, b, e". Don't rank by your opinion of priority):

a. Refactor the stack to load+render in under 500ms (here's the current homepage timings).

b. Trace down memory leaks (like zombie views) in the browser using developer profiling tools

c. Replace Backbone.sync with a Russian-doll style cacheing system against the URL path of the model.

d. Create an asset pipeline from scratch in Node.js that integrates with our existing Python-based deployment system.

e. Implement a cross-browser system that can keep multiple tabs/devices in sync, real-time.

Finally, wait for me to reply. I reply to everyone, even if we don't seem like a good fit.