Job Description

Axios is hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer to join their Application Development organization to architect and grow new and existing codebases, give technical input and feedback to Axios’ product and design teams for new features, and help develop the skills of less experienced engineers.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build significant features across the Axios web site, content/media management systems, and feeds
• Write clean, well-documented, and well-tested code
• Advocate for best practices, automation over repetition, the best technical approaches, and when to build vs buy
• Collaborate with Axios’ platform engineers, test engineers, product managers, and product designers to ensure we quickly and safely ship and iterate on high-quality products
• Mentor and coach members of the team through pair-programming and empathetic code review
• Share knowledge through presenting at guild meetings and demoing to team members and stakeholders
• Stay up to date with industry trends and advise the team on best practices

Requirements

• Experience building large, high-traffic frontend applications, with a sharp eye toward responsive and accessible user experiences
• Fluency in TypeScript or JavaScript with strong foundation with a modern front end library, such as React, and a framework like Next.js
• Proven ability to ship high quality and testable code using Jest, React Testing Library and Storybook
• Experience with REST API development and best practices for API design
• Familiarity with using AI to optimize workflows
• Experience working on cross-functional agile teams where you advocate for technical needs as well as the best solution to the problems at hand
• Specific passion for user-focused and data-driven decision making
• Experience working on front end web performance, SEO and accessibility
• Experience with TDD and up-front tech design planning
• Experience working with asset management, content management, ad tech, and A/B testing solutions
• Caching and multi-layered caching strategies (e.g. redis, Varnish, but also Cloudflare)
• A passion for media and building award-winning brands

Benefits

• No benefits