Lead Front End Engineer

Company: Wistia
Location: Cambridge
Posted on: April 10, 2021

Job Description:

Wistia is looking for a Lead Front End Engineer to lead our Storefront team.

This role is a great opportunity to work closely with product managers, designers, and marketers to create a beautiful, informative, compelling, responsive, and accessible storefront experience to drive interest in the product, generate leads, embody Wistia's core values and build lasting affinity for the Wistia brand. On this team you'll be working with modern frameworks and building reusable components, but it's a true partnership across the business to support the brand and acquire and educate new customers.

Our storefront website is a Next.js app with all the React-goodness you'd expect. We do drop down into Node for some more complex features like search and our Contentful (CMS) syncing. And, like any project there are some ongoing platform needs such as regular library maintenance and supporting typical third-party integrations important for SEO and website analytics. These parts of the stack include things like Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, BugSnag, DataDog, and Optimizely.

We're a diverse and inclusive team composed of engineers, product managers and designers. We're technology-minded, but customer focused, always aiming to deliver the highest-impact features that prioritize the long-term success of the product.

You will fit in great on this team if you:

• Love building beautiful websites.
• Have an appreciation for the craft of frontend web development.
• Are interested in leading a team in the short-medium term.
• Have a user-centric mindset for progressive enhancement, performance, and accessibility
• Enjoy working with design systems and highly value design-developer collaboration
• Value pragmatism more than perfection.
• Value a team that tries to leave things better than you found them.
  We're looking for someone who:
  • Has seen the good, the bad, the ugly, and the just plain quirky of the internet.
  • Has experience working on cross-functional product teams.
  • Enjoys working with others to solve not just technical, but people, design, and product challenges.
  • Has a history of positive cross-functional working relationships with marketers
  • Likes to help other engineers grow.
    About Wistia
    
    We work hard to ensure Wistia is an inclusive and diverse place where everyone feels happy, fulfilled, respected, comfortable, and welcome. You can learn more about the type of company we're building on our blog. Check out our Jobs page to get a feel for our culture and the benefits of working at Wistia.
    
    We want you to grow, contribute, and have fun here! We know the biggest investment we can make is in our employees, so we provide:
    • 401k with 3% company contribution, regardless of whether you make contributions
    • Profit Sharing!
    • Flexible hours
    • Fully paid healthcare coverage for you and your family (including dental) and a healthcare FSA
    • 16 weeks paid family leave
    • Flexible vacation and sick leave
    • A convenient office just south of Central Square in Cambridge, MA. We're right on the Red Line, surrounded by great restaurants, parks, and even a dog park Do you now, or will you ever require employment sponsorship to work in the United States? --*
      -- What's the URL of your github profile? Or if you don't have one, please feel free to link us to some code you're proud to call your own.
      One of Wistia's company values is simplicity. We are interested to learn how you think about design and what makes a beautiful, simple, and durable product. Tell us about something that you think is well designed and explain what makes it great. It could be a product, an API, a protocol, anything! --*
      U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Information (Completion is voluntary) Individuals seeking employment at Wistia are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. You are being given the opportunity to provide the following information in order to help us comply with federal and state Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action record keeping, reporting, and other legal requirements. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file. Gender Please select Are you Hispanic/Latino? Please select Race & Ethnicity Definitions If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection. As a government contractor subject to Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measure the effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categories is as follows: A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability. A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service. An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense. An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985. Veteran Status Please select Form CC-305 OMB Control Number 1250-0005 Expires 05/31/2023 Voluntary Self-Identification of DisabilityWhy are you being asked to complete this form? We are a federal contractor or subcontractor required by law to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We are also required to measure our progress toward having at least 7% of our workforce be individuals with disabilities. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had a disability. Because a person may become disabled at any time, we ask all of our employees to update their information at least every five years. Identifying yourself as an individual with a disability is voluntary, and we hope that you will choose to do so. Your answer will be maintained confidentially and not be seen by selecting officials or anyone else involved in making personnel decisions. Completing the form will not negatively impact you in any way, regardless of whether you have self-identified in the past. For more information about this form or the equal employment obligations of federal contractors under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act, visit the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) website at www.dol.gov/ofccp . How do you know if you have a disability? You are considered to have a disability if you have a physical or mental impairment or medical condition that substantially limits a major life activity, or if you have a history or record of such an impairment or medical condition. Disabilities include, but are not limited to:
      • Autism
      • Autoimmune disorder, for example, lupus, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, or HIV/AIDS
      • Blind or low vision
      • Cancer
      • Cardiovascular or heart disease
      • Celiac disease
      • Cerebral palsy
      • Deaf or hard of hearing
      • Depression or anxiety
      • Diabetes
      • Epilepsy
      • Gastrointestinal disorders, for example, Crohn's Disease, or irritable bowel syndrome
      • Intellectual disability
      • Missing limbs or partially missing limbs
      • Nervous system condition for example, migraine headaches, Parkinson's disease, or Multiple sclerosis (MS)
      • Psychiatric condition, for example, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD, or major depression Disability Status Please select 1 Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended. For more information about this form or the equal employment obligations of Federal contractors, visit the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) website at www.dol.gov/ofccp . PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENT: According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless such collection displays a valid OMB control number. This survey should take about 5 minutes to complete.

Keywords: Wistia, Cambridge , Lead Front End Engineer, Engineering , Cambridge, Massachusetts