Frontend Technical Lead

We’re currently hiring for remote team members in the following states:  DC, DE, GA, MA, MD, NH, NJ, OH, PA, SC, UT, and VA. #BI-Remote

We’re AWeber - a remote-first company that helps small businesses around the world form meaningful connections with their customers and grow their businesses using our marketing communication software. We are fanatical about small businesses and we hope you are too!

As a Frontend Technical Lead, you will design, develop, maintain, and support client applications built with React as well as support existing clients built using pure Javascript and other technologies. Our customers don’t have time to waste when it comes to marketing their businesses and this is where you come in - to efficiently develop beautiful, intuitive frontend clients that allow our customers access to exciting new features and functionality.

Every day you’ll work with a team, writing new clients and features enabling our customers to support their businesses. You will set the vision for how we evolve our frontend technical stack and processes to make sure we’re operating as efficiently as possible and staying up-to-date with industry trends. You have a strong point of view and are not afraid to express it, while being open to feedback and other perspectives. You will collaborate closely with other engineers as well as Product Managers and UI/UX Designers. You will propose creative solutions, develop unit and acceptance tests, and stay invested in new ways of tackling problems and creating efficiencies. Additionally, you’ll harness your passion for engineering to stay up-to-date on emerging trends, explore technologies across a variety of stacks, while mentoring and inspiring other engineers.

To thrive as a Technical Lead, you take pride in producing maintainable code that balances many competing priorities while delivering for the customer. You have a passion for experimenting with new approaches as well as consolidating implementations into core components. You enjoy coaching more junior developers through code reviews, pair programming, and providing technical thought leadership. You feel energized when you work with a team to deploy a new feature or solve a tough problem. Learning quickly is one of your super-powers and you enjoy technologies and problems that are new to you, eager to share what you’ve learned. You assume ownership over your areas of responsibility, always advocating for improvements and pushing to keep systems updated to current standards.

Required skills and qualifications

• Extensive experience working with Javascript, Typescript, HTML, CSS/SASS, React, and Jest
• Extensive experience implementing and/or utilizing React component libraries
• Extensive experience implementing against RestFul APIs and understanding of core RestFul API concepts
• Understanding of browser resource caching

Preferred qualifications 

• Experience with tailwindcss
• Experience with react-query
• Experience with react-testing-library
• Experience with Federated Applications / Module Federation
• Experience with React Virtual Table/List Libraries (react-virtuoso / react-virtual)
• Experience developing with PHP
• Understanding of CDN caching

About AWeber:

At AWeber we create marketing/ communication software that empowers small businesses around the world to form strong connections with their customers and grow their businesses. Who are our customers you might ask? They are creators, bloggers, entrepreneurs - people just like you that are passionate about an idea or product they want to share with the world. At AWeber, YOU make an impact on these small businesses each and every day!

As a team, we work remotely across the US, and although we’re in separate locations, nothing can keep us apart! We collaborate everyday using a variety of tools such as slack, google meet, and confluence/ JIRA to ensure we’re making decisions with our customers’ best interests in mind - something that’s not possible when you work in a silo. At AWeber, YOUR voice and YOUR opinion matters, regardless of your role. We expect all AWeber team members will ask tough questions, provide/ receive feedback regularly, and explore their passions on a daily basis. Sound exciting? Take the next step and apply.

AWeber Benefits:

• 100% Remote - we’re not going back to the office and here’s why.
• Strong culture that supports flexibility, entrepreneurialism, and collaboration. Think we should be doing something different? Share your feedback! We’re looking for you to add your AWesomeness to our culture.
• We have some other pretty cool benefits to make your life easier:
• 100% Company Paid PPO medical, dental, vision insurance (spousal and domestic partner benefits available).
• 4-7 weeks of paid time off and holidays (based on tenure).
• 4 weeks paid sabbatical (based on tenure).
• 401K retirement plan with 4% company match.
• Company Profit Share.
• Home office equipment and internet stipend.
• Tuition reimbursement, conferences, and learning opportunities.
• Gym Memberships Reimbursement. 
• Company Paid Short Term Disability Insurance.
• Company Paid Life Insurance.
• Additional Supplemental Benefits (Long Term Disability, Critical Illness, and Additional Life Insurance).