Staff Frontend Engineer at Medium

📋 Description

• Lead end-to-end frontend initiatives across teams.
• Shape architecture and patterns for Medium's web platform.
• Stay hands-on, writing high-quality frontend code.
• Improve performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Partner with product and design for polished UX.
• Mentor engineers and drive engineering culture.
• Identify and solve key frontend challenges.
• Attend biannual in-person offsites in the U.S.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong frontend fundamentals: rendering, state, perf, testing.
• Mentors engineers and raises team quality.
• Handles ambiguous problems with clear solutions.
• Product-minded with UX focus and polish.
• Pragmatic tradeoffs; clear, direct decisions.
• Use AI tools with sound engineering judgement.
• Care about copy, grammar, consistency.
• Outcomes over ego; give direct feedback.

🎁 Benefits

• Fully distributed team across US and France.
• Healthcare benefits for employees.
• Generous parental leave policy.
• Mental health support via Talkspace.
• Financial wellness through Northstar.
• Co-working, wifi, home office stipend.
• Unlimited PTO and standard holidays.
• Medium membership discount.