Senior Software Engineer, Frontend

About the position

Join our growing Engineering team to expand and scale our ever-evolving e-commerce platform! FIGS is looking for an exceptional Senior Frontend Software Engineer who can help us architect and drive our frontend roadmap forward. Our current frontend experience is a server-side rendered Next.js React site built with Typescript, Styled Components, GraphQL and Apollo Client. We use Shopify to manage our shopping cart and checkout process, and have a mandate to grow on top of and beyond it as we need to.

Responsibilities

• Work as an engineer on projects led by others and grow your experience by leading projects yourself
• Participate in software and system design conversations with peer engineers
• Partner with our Product, Design, and Backend Engineering teams to define and build out our core theming and reusable component libraries
• Define and help implement core data models that will power our presentation layer APIs
• Build customer-facing frontend applications and features to help our customers better use our site
• Mentor and guide Junior Engineers as the team grows

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years professionally working on frontend applications
• Familiarity with leveraging automated solutions like unit tests, end-to-end tests, tracing, and data observability to ensure application and code quality
• Extensive experience with JavaScript and Typescript
• A commanding knowledge of HTML, CSS, and building rich user experiences with them
• 2+ years experience with SPA frameworks like React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, or Angular
• Experience using Node.js in a production environment
• Experience using a web framework like Next.js or Nuxt in a production environment
• Awareness of cross-browser compatibility issues and client-side performance considerations
• Awareness of challenges around creating accessible websites and React components
• Awareness of common web security vulnerabilities and how to avoid them
• Demonstrated ability to contribute to scalable and maintainable front-end JavaScript applications

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with building and maintaining traditional Shopify sites and experience working on Shopify Apps and Themes
• Experience with GitHub and CI/CD processes and pipelines
• Knowledge of headless CMS platforms like Contentful or Strapi
• Familiarity with DevOps technologies like CircleCI, Docker, AWS CDK, Terraform and Kubernetes
• Understanding of configuring ESLint, Prettier, TypeScript, Yarn, Lerna, and other TypeScript infrastructure

Benefits

• Base salary range is between $145,000 and $165,000
• Equity through new-hire equity program and employee stock purchase plan
• Annual bonus eligibility
• Comprehensive benefits and perks package including premium medical, dental and vision coverage
• 100% FIGS-sponsored life insurance and disability insurance
• 401(k) program with company match up to the first 6% of your contribution
• Generous paid time off including 12 company holidays and flexible vacation for salaried team members
• Parental leave and new parent care meals
• FIGS sponsored Uber Eats voucher for in-office weeks
• Personalized discount code for 50% off all FIGS products
• Access to FIGS Vet, Discounted Pet Daycare, Discounted Pet Insurance