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React Developer (Remote)

About the role

We are hiring a remote React Developer to build fast, accessible interfaces in React and keep the front end easy to change.

You will report to the founder.

What you will do

  • Build new screens and components in React and TypeScript
  • Turn Figma designs into responsive, accessible pages
  • Manage data fetching, caching, and state
  • Write component and end-to-end tests
  • Improve Core Web Vitals and bundle size

What success looks like in the first 90 days

  • New screens shipped to production from design to release
  • Core Web Vitals tracked and improving on key pages
  • Reusable components documented in one place

Tools you will use

  • React and TypeScript
  • Next.js or Vite
  • Tailwind CSS or CSS modules
  • Jest, Vitest, or Playwright
  • Figma

What we are looking for

  • Three or more years building production React applications
  • Strong TypeScript, HTML, and CSS
  • Working knowledge of accessibility basics such as semantic markup and keyboard navigation
  • Experience turning designs into pixel-accurate, responsive layouts

Schedule

Full-time, 40 hours a week, remote. Working hours overlap with U.S. Eastern Time business hours.

How to apply

Send your resume and a short note on the most relevant work you have done. Tell us which of the tasks above you have done before and the tools you used. Applications without a note will not be reviewed.

More tasks you can add

  • Maintain the shared component library
  • Fix front-end bugs across browsers and devices
  • Review front-end pull requests

Interview questions for this role

  1. When do you reach for server components or server-side rendering in Next.js, and when not?
  2. How do you keep a component library consistent when three people add components to it?
  3. A form re-renders on every keystroke and feels slow. How do you find the cause?
  4. How do you handle loading and error states so a user is never stuck on a spinner?
  5. What do you check before you call a page accessible?

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