HIRING: Front End Lead Engineer, Wild Alaskan Company [REMOTE]

[Emeliem Ogbolu]

Our Mission

Wild Alaskan Company’s mission is to accelerate humanity’s transition to sustainable food systems by fostering meaningful, interconnected relationships between human beings, wild seafood and the planet.

We deliver wild-caught, sustainable seafood to households across the United States. Powered by our custom-built eCommerce platform and three generations of history and expertise in the Alaskan fishing industry, we constantly strive to meet our promise of a top-notch product and experience. And we do it all in a fully-remote environment that is fast-paced, challenging, and fun.

About the Role 

You are an experienced Frontend Engineer, who excels at coordinating and facilitating the critical work of building world-class systems. Working with other engineers to streamline the work of development, and testing, the Lead Front-End Engineer will be responsible for establishing development standards, implementing best practices, and producing a first-class digital fishmongering experience at Wild Alaskan. 

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with and lead core team of engineers to help build best practices for the frontend stack.
• Perform code reviews.
• Assist with the technical design and development of cross-functional, multi-platform web applications.
• Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities, and mentoring other members of the engineering community.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with digital product managers, and deliver robust solutions that drive powerful experiences
• Work with legacy code to either clean up tech debt or rewrite code. 
• Other duties as assigned 

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of best practices of frontend development and unit testing.
• Able to manage laterally and collaborate with stakeholders.
• Able to collaborate with and lead the team of developers.
• BS in computer science, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of development experience.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent documentation skills. 
• Experience in customer-facing web application development.
• Experience in responsive design development.
• Experience in mobile-first development.
• Experience in JS frameworks.
• Experience in CSS/Sass libraries (tailwind, bootstrap)-
• FE pkg manager experience.
• Passion for or willingness to learn about sustainability. 

Nice-to-Haves: 

• Experience in e-commerce web application development.
• Experience in mobile development.
• Experience with web vitals (lighthouse score, etc).
• Experience with VueJS.
• Experience with PHP/Laravel.
• Server-side-rendering.
• PWA - progressive web app.
• Good organization skills.
• People management experience. 
• Experience in a fast-paced, startup environment. 
• Curiosity -  you don’t settle with things being as they are and constantly ask why or what if?

To Apply: Submit application here. 

The starting salary range for this position is $130,000 - $165,000, commensurate with skills and experience. Wild Alaskan’s benefits package includes health, vision, and dental insurance, 401k, PTO, safe/sick time, vacation, parental leave and more, as well as a delicious box of free fish every month.