Senior Full Stack Engineer

We build development tools used by thousands of front-end software teams worldwide, including the BBC, Shopify, Adobe, and, of course, ourselves. We are a fast-paced startup that cares about the details and getting things right for our customers. We work together to do some of the best work of our careers and only ship work we are genuinely proud of. We’re on a mission to safeguard the world’s pixels, but we need your help.

We want someone like you to work on the Chromatic product's human interfaces and platform APIs, taking features from ideation to shipped in production. You’ll be on the team that owns the systems powering customer-facing workflows written with Next.JS, GraphQL, TypeScript, and MongoDB data stores. We seek someone equally passionate about delightful customer experiences and amazing system architecture. We are looking for someone with both front-end and back-end expertise who has chosen to specialize in one of the two. We want someone who loves building front-ends and APIs that customers can take for granted.

We’re running a successful business, and with that comes tremendous scale. The impact of the changes you make, both positive and negative, will be immediately felt by customers around the world. We need your expertise as we evolve our product and our architecture. Everything we do here matters, and we’ll need you to help us make well-informed decisions about what to do next. This job is perfect for someone willing to dive into complex problems and devise simple, high-quality, delightful solutions.

This is a fully remote position for individuals based in the mainland US or Canada.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable, reliable back-end systems in our TypeScript / Node.js / GraphQL / MongoDB stack.
• Work closely with the product team and your fellow engineers to help refine specifications and provide technical guidance.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams at the company to take full-stack features to production.
• Monitor and continuously improve our systems to maintain a quality standard and effectively respond to operational incidents.
• You will participate in the engineering team's support rotation. Because of our globally distributed team, this rotation is primarily during business hours.
  
  

Requirements

• 5+ years of real-world experience building full-stack web applications for production (Bonus points for experience using Next.JS).
• Experience using Typescript & Node.JS (It’s a plus if you have experience with other languages and opinionated frameworks, such as NestJS, too).
• Experience with database technologies, such as Postgres, MongoDB, and Redis (bonus points for experience with sharding and replication strategies).
• Excellent technical communication skills and enthusiasm for writing things down.
• Enthusiastic about testing and experience using test-driven development.
• Passion for designing simple solutions to complex problems.
• Has a good intuition for what will last and scale.
• Bonus: Experience with Visual Regression Testing and developing components in isolation before (e.g., used Storybook, etc.).
  
  

Salary range: US$155K—US$190K + equity. Learn more about our compensation philosophy here. Visit our careers page for a list of our other benefits and a peek into life at Chromatic.