Senior Frontend Engineer, Muck Rack
$140-170k
Public Relations software
Open for applications
Public Relations software
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$140-170k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To transform the way companies engage with the media.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional experience as a frontend software engineer, focused on frontend architecture, performance and profiling, design systems, and testing frameworks
- Proficiency with modern frontend JavaScript frameworks like Vue.js or React
- Proficiency with vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Experience with Django or a similar web framework
- Experience with modern testing frameworks like Jest
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Sentry
- Experience with analytics tools like PostHog
- Have excellent communication skills, with an ability to explain ideas clearly, give and receive feedback, and foster a good rapport with teammates
- Take pride in the quality of their code (Your code should be readable, testable, and understandable years later. You adhere to the Zen of Python.)
- Work well in a fast-paced development environment with testing, continuous integration and multiple daily deploys
- Have the ability to manage complexity in a large project, and incur technical debt only after considering the tradeoffs
- Take a logical approach to problem solving that combines analytical thinking and intuition
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a talented and motivated Senior Frontend Engineer to join our team and make a big impact
- As a Senior Frontend Engineer on the Relationships team, you’ll work closely with design, engineering, and product to ensure our customers have features essential to their growing needs
- You'll contribute to small and large technical projects across the application, while collaborating with other application teams
- You will play a key role in shaping our engineering culture and processes
- Our tech stack includes Python, Django, Celery, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Vue, and Webpack
- Works on complex, high-traffic web applications at a startup or SaaS company and takes part in architecting frontend codebases, design systems, and testing frameworks (unit, end-to-end)
- Deftly handles problems that arise while maintaining a complex frontend codebase (ie. performance bottlenecks, user issues, browser bugs, visual discrepancies, and more),
- Relies on tools like Sentry to monitor critical infrastructure and respond to issues
- Builds interactive and easy-to-use user interface components with a foundational understanding of frontend-to-backend communication, responsive design, grid layout systems, common UI patterns, SEO best practices, accessibility and web typography
- Evaluates the technical feasibility of product specifications and designs and bridges the gap between concepts and technical implementation
- Values user-friendliness, speed, scalability, consistency and accessibility over style and aesthetics, but still recognizes their importance
Application process
- 30 min interview with a member of our Talent Team
- A one hour zoom interview with the hiring manager
- 45 min peer interview(s)
- Final call(s) with executive team member(s)
Our take
Muck Rack was founded in 2009 as a platform for businesses to connect with journalists. As of 2022, tens of thousands of journalists have profiles on Muck Rack that are available for businesses such as Google, Pfizer, and Duolingo to browse and employ writers from.
The nature of journalism has evolved since Muck Rack’s founding, with social media and digital outlets taking demand away from printed publications. As the landscape changes, Muck Rack has expanded their services to include a Public Relations Management platform.
It’s moves like this, as well as their shift into being a “distributed” business (hybrid or remote) that has ignited a renewed confidence in Muck Rack from investors. Though the company has been bootstrapped since its founding, Muck Rack received its first outside funding to the sum of $180 million in 2022, exemplifying how important investors deem their platform to be.
With its substantial funding, the future is bright for Muck Rack, though they will have to think carefully about how to advance the platform. Digital content can go viral in a matter of hours, and the creators are not always journalists.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
31% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Fully distributed - Much Rack are committed to a permanent, fully remote environment, core to the way they do business.
- Geo-neutral compensation - Much Rack believe in equitable pay regardless of where you live.
- Time off - 4+ weeks off-the-grid vacation, sick and mental health days, and company holidays.
- Insurance - Health, vision, and dental coverage paid at 100% for individuals
- Retirement planning - MUck Rack contribute 3% of your annual salary to your 401k automatically.
- Paid parental leave - 8 weeks fully paid bonding for all parents + up to 8 weeks fully paid recovery from childbirth.
- Full WFH set up - Including monthly phone/internet reimbursement and coworking stipend.
- Learning & development - Take advantage of unlimited access to learning platforms and regular training opportunities.
- No meeting Fridays - Take control of your calendar, and make time for reflection and deep-focus tasks
Company HQ
Brickell, Miami, FL
Leadership
Gregory Galant
(CEO)Currently CEO & Co-Founder of the Shorty Awards for social media. Previously CEO of RadioTail and Chairman of Halenet.
Lee Semel
(CTO)Currently Co-Founder and Producer at the Shorty Awards. Previously Founder and CTO of Innofinity.
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