Senior Frontend Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote-Optional
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: $130,000 - $175,000 (dependent on location, experience, and skills)

Axios is a respected media company dedicated to providing trustworthy, award-winning news content in an audience-first format. We're hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer to join our Application Development organization.

Why it matters

Our Engineers are a critical part of our mission to deliver the cleanest, smartest, most efficient, and trustworthy content to our users. You will 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 with industry best practices around testing, accessibility, and documentation.

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
• Experience with caching and multi-layered caching strategies (e.g. redis, Varnish, but also Cloudflare)
• A passion for media and building award-winning brands
• Entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for Axios’ mission

Company Information & Benefits

Axios offers the following in addition to salary:

• 401(k) with employer match
• Robust PPO and High Deductible health insurance options on the Blue Cross Blue Shield network
• Employer Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution for the high deductible health plan option
• Dental and vision coverage
• Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave
• Generous vacation policy, plus holidays
• One mental health day per quarter
• Annual learning and development stipend
• $100 monthly work-from-home stipend
• Tele-mental health services through Headspace
• OneMedical membership, including tele-health services
• Personal health advocacy resources through HealthAdvocate
• Inclusive fertility, hormonal health and family forming benefits through Carrot Fertility