Hybrid Frontend Performance Engineer

at Pitch

• Job title: Frontend Performance Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: JavaScript, React
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Berlin, Germany

About the role

• Frontend Performance Engineer with strong JavaScript skills for React projects. Collaborating with diverse teams and optimizing performance in Berlin or remotely.

Responsibilities

• Work with frontend frameworks and libraries
• Build or contribute to projects actively
• Collaborate with team members and other engineers
• Communicate effectively and empathetically to understand different viewpoints
• Analyze performance bottlenecks and debug issues using appropriate tools

Requirements

• 5+ years working with frontend frameworks and libraries professionally (and having built or contributed to some is a big plus.)
• Knowledge of React (Reagent) and its internals
• Experience with ClojureScript, functional programming and immutable data structures is preferred, but not required
• You know the weirdest parts of JavaScript and love working with it anyway.
• You know your way around the performance profiling and debugging tools in your web browser of choice.
• Diving into a new system to understand performance bottlenecks excites you.
• You are a strong communicator and are equally comfortable talking with your immediate team, other frontend engineers and backend infrastructure engineers.
• You are ready to learn, but just as excited to teach.
• You understand that the perfect solution is informed by the people who will be building on your work, rather than being purely dependent on technical merits. Empathy is a feature.

Benefits

• We value diversity of perspective and seek to build an inclusive workplace that welcomes people from all different backgrounds (including dogs).