Senior React Engineer (PUBLIC)
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Description
Kahani is bringing full screen video/story content to the web. As our Senior React engineer, you will take over ownership of the Kahani Module and work with our full stack engineer & design team to take it to the next level. Our product and team are growing rapidly and we’re looking for the right person who can help us unlock new capabilities.
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Our site: https://www.kahaniapp.com
Live example of the module: http://projectrepat.com
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Responsibilities
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Turn wireframes into complete, functional applications without guidance from other React engineers or a lot of Googling
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Take ownership of continued development on the Kahani Module & Customer Portal
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Get excited about what we’re building and bring your own ideas into the mix.
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Regularly deploy code that has been appropriately QA’d on a variety of platforms on both desktop & mobile
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Remote OK (our team is already distributed), but most your working hours should mostly overlap with US Central Time
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We operate a professional environment, but are also a startup. Priorities and requirements will shift frequently as we work towards product-market fit
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Experience/Skills
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At least 5 years building React applications, full time
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Knowledgable about React state management (ex: Context, Redux, ...)
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Capable of setting up a new React project with the right architecture that we would be proud of
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You can write detailed CSS in your sleep
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You have a set of go-to pipeline tools (ex: Babel, Webpack, Parcel, ...)
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Experience displaying streaming video on the web
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Experience implementing smooth JS/CSS animations
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Bonus:
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Shopify app or theme experience
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Experience instrumenting a UX for performance tracking (ex: Fullstory, Google Analytics, Segment, ...)
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Experience running A/B tests
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You’ve worked on very small teams before and prefer it that way
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You have an eye for design. We have no full-time designers and would love to add someone who has more of a flair for it than we do
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What Next?
If this role excites you, please send an email to adam@gateway.xyz with a brief paragraph on why you are interested in this position with your resume attached as a pdf. Add any public portfiolo you are able to share (personal website, github, ...).
Thank you!