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Job Overview

Job Title Senior Frontend Engineer, React/Typescript
Hiring Organization DuckDuckGo
Company Website https://duckduckgo.com/
Remote Locations Worldwide
Job Type Remote, Full-Time

In this role, you will lead and contribute to developing new and existing products and features, demonstrating ownership over major components of our codebase while taking responsibility for their maintenance and improvement over time. By writing pragmatic, performant, and testable code that works consistently across settings, devices, and browsers, you’ll play a key role in improving the frontend software architecture, all while prioritizing privacy and user experience throughout the engineering process.

As a senior engineer, you will mentor peers and work closely with cross-functional team members through remote collaboration opportunities, including product brainstorms, technical design discussions, code reviews, and more.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

DuckDuckGo provides equal work opportunities to all team members and applicants, and it prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, caste, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by our policies or federal, state, or local laws.

We want to ensure that our hiring process is accessible. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process because of a medical condition or disability, please send an email to careers@duckduckgo.com to let us know the nature of your request.

If you think you might thrive in this environment, we would love to hear from you.

Job Requirements

7+ years experience in positions where your primary responsibility was writing code.
Advanced level of JavaScript/HTML/CSS expertise.
Advanced level of React and Typescript.
Advanced level of web application architecture expertise.
Ability to lead engineering projects with little to no oversight.
Experience building large-scale web applications.
Experience identifying success criteria and metrics and validating decisions against them.
Experience collaborating with engineers on the backend and other platforms, such as Android and iOS.
Experience collaborating with product and design to build polished consumer-facing products.
Ability to contribute to technical architecture decisions for complex products.
Willingness to learn new technologies and ideas.

Employee Benefits

Our core values — build trust, question assumptions, and validate direction — underpin how we work day-to-day and the support we give our team members. We strive to empower our team members to be self-directed and self-motivated in their work.

Remote First, Always: We’ve always been a fully distributed company with team members all over the world. We trust you to get your work done wherever, and whenever.
Commitment to Personal Growth: Every team member has an annual budget of $1,250 USD to invest in their professional development. Every team member also has a dedicated Career Advisor, who serves as a guide to help you develop your strengths, identify your motivations, and understand your opportunities for growth.
Leadership: We have many different types of leaders and possible combinations of leadership roles, so you can grow your career in a way that aligns best with your personal goals. You can seek additional leadership roles by being directly responsible for projects, taking ownership of areas of the company, developing and maintaining internal processes, or pursuing advisory roles.
Work/Life Balance: Team members have the freedom and flexibility to organize their own work schedules. We want you to thrive both in and out of the office. We trust you to use good judgment and take the time off that you need to bring your best self to work.

We also offer paid parental leave, a co-working stipend, office setup reimbursement, and a wellness stipend. More support resources can be found in our Team Member Support Guide, which explains how we make your well-being a priority.

For more information on how we collaborate worldwide, from leadership in our relatively flat organization to start-to-finish ownership, check out DuckDuckGo Culture: How We Work.

Compensation

Annual compensation: $178,500 USD and stock options. Compensation is the same within a professional level, regardless of geographic location or functional area, and the compensation for each professional level is transparent across the organization.