[Remote] Frontend Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. UST is a mission-driven company that transforms lives through technology. They are seeking a passionate Frontend Engineer to design and maintain high-quality user interfaces, collaborate with various stakeholders, and take ownership of user experience for critical internal tools.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain high-quality, responsive user interfaces and components using React, TypeScript, and Customer React Spectrum
- Collaborate closely with product managers, business stakeholders, backend engineers, and users to translate requirements and feedback into effective frontend solutions
- Take ownership of the user experience, applying UI/UX best practices, proposing design improvements, and implementing solutions even when detailed mockups are not provided
- Write robust unit tests for your code using frameworks like Vitest, and contribute to establishing and maintaining end-to-end testing practices (e.g., using Cypress or Playwright)
- Integrate frontend components with backend REST APIs, understanding authentication flows like OAuth
- Actively participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, code reviews, and retrospectives
- Contribute to frontend architecture discussions, justifying design choices and helping implement scalable and maintainable solutions
- Utilize Git for version control, following team branching and pull request workflows
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong focus on frontend development
- Proven expertise in building complex web applications using React and TypeScript
- Strong proficiency in modern JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, and CSS3
- Experience with state management libraries (e.g., Zustand, Redux, MobX) and the ability to adapt to existing patterns
- Demonstrated experience with component libraries, particularly Customer React Spectrum or similar systems
- Solid understanding of responsive design principles and experience
- Design, develop, test, and maintain high-quality, responsive user interfaces and components using React, TypeScript, and Customer React Spectrum
- Collaborate closely with product managers, business stakeholders, backend engineers, and users to translate requirements and feedback into effective frontend solutions
- Take ownership of the user experience, applying UI/UX best practices, proposing design improvements, and implementing solutions even when detailed mockups are not provided
- Write robust unit tests for your code using frameworks like Vitest, and contribute to establishing and maintaining end-to-end testing practices (e.g., using Cypress or Playwright)
- Integrate frontend components with backend REST APIs, understanding authentication flows like OAuth
- Actively participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, code reviews, and retrospectives
- Contribute to frontend architecture discussions, justifying design choices and helping implement scalable and maintainable solutions
- Utilize Git for version control, following team branching and pull request workflows
Benefits
- Full-time, regular employees accrue a minimum of 10 days of paid vacation per year
- Receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year)
- 10 paid holidays
- Are eligible for paid bereavement leave and jury duty
- Eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching
- They and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Company-paid Employee Only benefits: basic life insurance, accidental death and disability insurance, and short- and long-term disability benefits
- Regular employees may purchase additional voluntary short-term disability benefits
- Participate in a Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for healthcare, dependent child care, and/or commuting expenses as allowable under IRS guidelines
- Benefits offerings vary in Puerto Rico
- Part-time employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year)
- Part-time employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching
- Full-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year)
- Full-time temporary employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) program with employer matching
- Full-time temporary employees and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Part-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year)
- All US employees who work in a state or locality with more generous paid sick leave benefits than specified here will receive the benefit of those sick leave laws
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