Senior Frontend Engineer

Title: Senior Frontend Engineer

Location: Remote (US or Canada)

Driven by the mission to democratize education, Paper is the largest provider of educational support, supporting millions of students through partnerships with thousands of school districts. Paper helps deliver true educational equity through their category leading Educational Support System (ESS) that offers virtual access to 24/7 tutors and essay reviewers. Founded in 2014, Paper philosophically believes that all students should be given the tools and resources to reach their academic potential, independent of socio-economic status, geography, language or other barriers. We are headquartered in Montreal, Quebec with remote employees across the US and Canada. Paper is proud to have been named by GSV as one of the most transformational growth companies in digital learning.

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, your primary focus will be leading the development of web application features and components. You will be working alongside full-stack developers, designers, and product owners to ensure the timely delivery of secure, accessible, high-quality and robust features. Due to the fast-paced and collaborative nature of the software development team, our ideal candidate will also need excellent teamwork and communication skills. As a senior member of the team, you will be relied upon as a leader and technical mentor for other engineers.

This position can be located in any geography in the US or Canada.

Responsibilities:

• Build reusable and modular components following frontend development best practices.
• Follow guidelines for ensuring web accessibility (WCAG, a11y).
• Write tests and use automated testing tools to build quality control into the product.
• Refactor code to improve readability and maintainability.
• Participate in teamwide code reviews and provide feedback.
• Stay up to date with JavaScript ecosystems.
• Provide mentorship and coaching to junior developers.
• Participate in maintenance and upkeep of technical documentation.
• Apply secure application coding standards (OWASP 10).

Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience working with Vue.js, React, or similar JavaScript frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript, ES6 syntax and other front-end technologies like HTML5 and CSS3.
• Experience with consumption and manipulation of JSON REST APIs.
• Good understanding of application design best practices.
• Ability to write efficient, secure, well-documented, and clean JavaScript code.
• Familiarity with automated JavaScript testing, specifically testing frameworks such as Jest or Mocha.
• Proficiency with modern development tools, like Babel, Webpack, and Git.

Job perks:

• We’re remote-first
• but we still want to meet you, so we’ll fly you in for annual meetups (sometimes more).
• We’re growing fast, and so will your career.
• Monthly stipend to support the growth of your home office.
• Unlimited access to tutoring and educational support for children of Paper employees.
• Benefits, retirement plan (+ match), stock options, and more.

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About Paper

Paper offers an exciting, dynamic, inclusive work environment putting excellence at the center of everything we do. Our mission is woven into the fabric of our culture, challenging our team to build meaningful and creative solutions.

We thrive when we collaborate with each other, and use integrity and selflessness to align our business decisions with our mission. We approach every challenge with positivity, achieving the outcome we want regardless of what gets in the way. Our tenacity propels our hyper-growth, where trust is key and we all strive to make an impact every day.

We believe that diverse teams build better products. Paper does not and will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender orientation, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status in any of its activities or operations.

Nobody checks every box, but the Paper team is built by passionate and innovative people who share our mission for democratizing education. If you don’t think you meet all of the requirements above but are still interested in the job, please apply.

PS. Equity is our mission! We make sure to treat all candidates equally: If you are interested please apply through our job board – our amazing talent team will reach out! Our team isn’t able to pass on any calls/ emails our way – and this makes sure that the candidate experience is smooth and fair to everyone.