Remote Frontend Engineer (React)

Description:

• Help Scout is seeking a Frontend Engineer (React) to join their fully remote team.
• The role involves crafting delightful user experiences for over 12,000 customer-centric businesses worldwide.
• You will work closely with designers, product managers, and backend engineers in small, agile teams.
• Responsibilities include maintaining high standards in JavaScript and CSS best practices, focusing on UI/UX excellence, and implementing designs from Figma and Storybook.
• You will prioritize performance, security, and usability to enhance customer experience.
• The position requires occasional collaboration with backend technologies, particularly REST APIs, although PHP experience is not mandatory.
• The work environment is remote, with a focus on autonomy and trust, and communication primarily through Slack.
• The role is limited to candidates located in the United States, with a time zone requirement of overlapping working hours from 9 AM to 1 PM ET.

Requirements:

• Candidates must be exceptional frontend engineers with a passion for creating beautiful and functional user interfaces.
• A keen eye for design details and the ability to bring a designer's vision to life is essential.
• Applicants should be friendly, collaborative, and humble, with a readiness to tackle complex challenges.
• Emphasis on personal growth and constructive feedback is important, as is the ability to communicate empathetically with both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.
• Code must be clean, maintainable, and easy for teammates to read, with a commitment to leaving codebases better than found.
• Experience with PHP and REST APIs is a plus, but not required.
• Candidates should be aligned with or excited about remote work and have experience or adaptability to remote-friendly environments.

Benefits:

• Help Scout offers a variety of perks and benefits, including healthcare coverage and wellness resources.
• The company has a pay range for this role of $136,000 to $168,000, based on a competency-based approach and national market data.
• Employees are compensated equally regardless of their geographic location, following a remote compensation philosophy.
• The company is committed to diversity and inclusion, providing accommodations or adjustments during the recruitment process as needed.