Frontend Team Lead, Stream

• 5+ experience as React developer
• Experience with NextJS and Tailwind CSS
• A passion for great UX and responsive design
• Focus on testing your own code and committing production-ready code
• 2+ years in a management role
• Expert level knowledge of CSS / SCSS with proven experience animating interactions
• In-depth knowledge of semantic HTML and React
• A wide knowledge of developing responsive/ adaptive layouts for multiple browsers and platforms, including desktop, tablet, and mobile
• Experience with TypeScript and modern JavaScript (CommonJS, ES Modules, Promises, ...)
• You’re an engineer who deeply appreciates design
• You can faithfully implement a design built in Sketch or Figma, giving meaningful feedback and even making changes to the design yourself if necessary
• You are a team player who enjoys figuring out solutions to complex problems
• You have a feeling for design and can translate design to product
• You are familiar with the latest technologies in frontend development and love to stay up to date with the latest developments
• You are detail-oriented, mindful of deadlines, and you have a high sense of responsibility

Desirable

• As a Frontend Team Lead, you will primarily focus on developing and maintaining our website, documentation, SEO, and blog
• You’ll mostly be working alongside the PM and other engineers, in close collaboration with Designers and other frontend teams, to implement new pages and features, but you will also be working with the many other stakeholders of our frontend apps
• Make sure features are done right and with high quality
• Frontend performance focus: we score >90 on Lighthouse
• Implement high-quality animations and interactions
• Pixel-perfect implementation of design
• Improve and build upon our current website, blog, and documentation platforms
• New feature additions and SEO improvements
• Plan and implement technical improvements, such as page loading speed, transition smoothness, bug fixing, and refactors to address technical debt
• Build and maintain our own flexible Design System
• Support best practices for SEO and frontend development
• Contribute to improving engagement and UX on the site to drive higher conversion
• Lead major transition to the newest technology stack that you will get to lead
• Hands-on management: our team leads spend 80% of their time coding and tackling complex tech challenges
• Variety of completely different projects to oversee that will keep you challenged (website, dashboard, documentation)
• Website challenges:
• Attention to the UX: our website should reflect the efforts and the attention to detail we put into all of our work
• Super-responsive design: Our website needs to run and look good on different screen sizes (mobile phones, tablets, laptops, desktops…)
• Accessibility: we want our platforms to be as inclusive as possible, allowing us to reach a wide audience
• Globally accessible: we run our website through CDN and we have visitors from all over the world
• Speed: we want to be fast, and we want to be able to serve our website to as many people as possible
• Redirects: we want to be able to redirect our users to the correct pages and never lose bookmarked or externally linked content
• Web Vitals: we want to maintain our PageSpeed and LightHouse scores as high as possible
• Dashboard challenges:
• Used by our customers to manage their account and their Stream applications
• Payment provider integration
• SSO integration with various providers
• Moderation and permissions management
• Touch-points with the React Chat SDK