[Remote] Frontend Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. A major television network is seeking an experienced Senior Frontend Engineer to build and evolve high-traffic consumer weather web applications. The role focuses on developing fast, responsive, accessible mobile-first experiences, integrating weather data, APIs, mapping services, and AI-powered features, while owning frontend performance and architecture.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and ship frontend features using React and Next.js, following a mobile-first development approach
- Build highly responsive and accessible user interfaces optimized across mobile devices, tablets, and desktop environments
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, engineers, and data teams to translate weather data and AI capabilities into intuitive consumer experiences
- Own frontend performance profiling and optimization, with a particular focus on Core Web Vitals including LCP, CLS, and INP
- Optimize applications for fast load times, smooth rendering, and reliable performance across different devices and mobile network conditions
- Develop reusable, scalable UI components using modern CSS and/or Tailwind CSS
- Integrate frontend applications with REST APIs, real-time data streams, mapping services, analytics platforms, and other backend systems
- Manage complex client-side state using technologies such as React Query, Zustand, or Redux
- Contribute to frontend architecture decisions, development standards, code reviews, and engineering best practices
- Troubleshoot performance and reliability issues using tools such as Lighthouse, WebPageTest, and Chrome DevTools
- Work independently within a fast-paced, highly collaborative, consumer-facing product environment
Skills
- • Senior-level frontend engineering experience building production-scale web applications
- • Expert-level proficiency with React and Next.js
- • Strong proficiency with JavaScript and TypeScript
- • Deep experience with mobile web development, including:
- • Mobile-first and responsive design
- • Mobile browser performance
- • Touch interactions
- • Cross-device compatibility
- • Low-bandwidth and variable network conditions
- • Strong command of modern CSS, including responsive layouts, animations, and complex UI development
- • Experience integrating and consuming REST APIs and real-time data sources
- • Experience with client-side state management technologies such as React Query, Zustand, or Redux
- • Hands-on experience measuring and optimizing Core Web Vitals (LCP, CLS, INP)
- • Experience with frontend performance tools such as Lighthouse, WebPageTest, and Chrome DevTools
- • Strong understanding of Git-based development workflows and experience with GitHub or similar platforms
- • Strong problem-solving, technical decision-making, and communication skills
- • Ability to operate effectively in a self-directed, fast-moving engineering environment
- • Must be a U.S. Citizen
- • Experience with Tailwind CSS or another utility-first CSS framework
- • Experience working with geospatial or location-based data
- • Experience with mapping technologies such as Mapbox or Google Maps
- • Experience developing interactive data visualization experiences
- • Familiarity with integrating AI-powered functionality into consumer web applications
- • Experience with personalization, recommendation systems, or LLM-backed web experiences
- • Previous experience developing high-traffic applications within media, weather, streaming, or other consumer-facing digital platforms
Benefits
- Remote – U.S.
- 6-month contract with strong potential for extension
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