Front-End Engineer

<p>Climatebase is seeking a talented and experienced Front-End Engineer to join our remote-first team. As a key member of our engineering team, you will play a crucial role in developing and maintaining our platform's user interface, ensuring a seamless and engaging experience for our users.</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Architect and implement robust, scalable front-end solutions with a focus on performance, maintainability, and reusability <ul> <li>Since we are a small team, you will act as your own de-facto tech lead and QA. You will be responsible for scoping out your projects, tracking and communicating progress throughout, and testing it end-to-end (both with unit tests and live testing).</li> </ul> </li> <li>Collaborate with designers, back-end developers and non-technical team members to implement new features and improve existing ones</li> <li>Optimize application performance and ensure cross-browser compatibility</li> <li>Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical discussions</li> <li>Stay up-to-date with the latest front-end technologies and best practices</li> </ul> <p><strong>Requirements:</strong></p> <ul> <li>4+ years of professional experience in front-end development</li> <li>Strong proficiency in JavaScript, CSS, and React</li> <li>Experience with Next.js and server-side rendering (or similar react server-side rendering solutions)</li> <li>Expertise in styled-components (or similar CSS-in-JS solutions)</li> <li>Solid understanding of responsive design principles and cross-browser compatibility</li> <li>Familiarity with version control systems (e.g. Git)</li> <li>Experience scoping out technical projects end-to-end. <ul> <li>Taking (often abstract) product requirements and translating them into well-defined technical specs</li> <li>Breaking large tasks up into manageable, easily trackable subtasks</li> </ul> </li> <li>Experience building end-to-end unit tests, and performing general QA</li> <li>Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail</li> <li>Strong communication skills and ability to work in a remote team environment</li> </ul> <p><strong>Bonus Skills:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience with Ruby / Ruby on Rails</li> <li>Experience with Node.js</li> <li>Familiarity with testing frameworks (we use Cypress.js)</li> <li>Understanding of web accessibility standards</li> <li>Interest in or experience with climate tech and sustainability</li> <li>Experience with AI API&rsquo;s (eg. Open AI, <a href="https://gemini.google.com/"><strong>&lrm;</strong></a>Gemini, Anthropic)</li> </ul> <p><strong>About Climatebase:</strong></p> <p>Climatebase is a rapidly growing remote-first organization dedicated to mobilizing talent to accelerate climate solutions. As the world's leading platform for climate careers, Climatebase helps climate organizations solve their hiring challenges by providing mission-driven professionals with a centralized resource for job opportunities, learning, and community. We&rsquo;re passionate about increasing the number of people joining the climate workforce while solving one of the biggest hurdles facing climate companies today: Hiring.</p> <p>Some highlights:</p> <ul> <li>4 years since launching, we&rsquo;ve helped thousands of people get hired at hundreds of climate tech companies and organizations.</li> <li>We've developed the foundation for a comprehensive hiring platform and professional network, which already features world's #1 climate jobs marketplace, a talent network with tens-of-thousands of profiles, a built-in Applicant Tracking System (ATS), and a feature-rich community platform (currently in private beta and only accessible to members of the Climatebase Fellowship)</li> <li>We&rsquo;ve developed one of the leading climate newsletters,&nbsp;Climatebase Weekly, which reaches over 100k readers three times each week.</li> <li>We launched and organized&nbsp;<a href="http://sfclimateweek.org/">SF Climate Week</a>. In 2024, there were 300+ events, and 18,500+ attendees. 2023 was the first SFCW, and we will be running SFCW annually.</li> <li>We launched the&nbsp;<a href="fellowship">Climatebase Fellowship</a>&nbsp;in 2022. Since then, we have helped accelerate the climate careers of 1,800+</li> </ul> <p><!-- notionvc: 12cfa28b-0292-4087-97a2-8b17ad4553b7 --></p>