Senior Front End Developer (Web)

at  imgly GmbH

ABOUT THE JOB

Join us as a Senior Frontend Developer for the CreativeEditor SDK at IMG.LY, where you’ll be an integral part of our development team. We are passionate about technology and design, creating innovative solutions for various industries. Our SDKs empower over 600 startups, governments, and Fortune 500 companies by making stunning design accessible to everyone.
As a fully remote company, we offer the flexibility to manage your own time and place, allowing you to bring design tools to every corner of the world. Our culture values written documentation, open communication, and collaboration. Choose your Batcave and join us!
We are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive team that reflects a variety of perspectives and experiences. A diverse workplace fosters creativity and innovation, and we welcome candidates from all backgrounds. Our inclusive culture ensures everyone can thrive and contribute to our mission.
In this role, you will develop and enhance interactive components that elevate both developer experience (DX) and user experience (UX) for our innovative design and video editing tools. You’ll collaborate closely with our design and product teams to create a user interface that excels in usability, accessibility, and customizability. Additionally, you will contribute to our in-house creative engine, UBQ, which is a portable cloud-native runtime for creative editing built in C++ and compiled to WebAssembly for our web editor.

YOUR SKILLS

• Code Architecture and Quality: Skilled in designing and maintaining modular, high-quality, scalable, and easy-to-understand code.
• Composable Components: Experience in writing composable code and building components with well-defined APIs.
• UI Development: Proficiency in CSS, including pre-processors like SASS/SCSS, and understanding of accessibility standards.
• Performance Optimization: Knowledge of optimizing performance and scalability of applications.
• Testing and Version Control: Proficiency in testing and TDD methodologies, including experience with testing frameworks such as Playwright or Cypress. Strong understanding of code reviewing and version control systems (Git, GitHub).
• Build Systems and Package Management: Knowledge of build systems, mono-repos, and package publishing is a big plus.

ABOUT US

IMG.LY is a dynamic and product led company with a distributed team delivering the market-leading solution for photo, video, and creative editing across industries. Our fully-customizable SDKs powers over millions of video and photo creations every month, as well as thousands of apps. Whether it’s powering Marketing Tech, enhancing Print-on-Demand Services, elevating Social Media Apps, or supporting Creative Agencies, IMG.LY is the go-to choice. For renowned brands like Amazon, Brother, HP, and Hootsuite for their user’s creative editing needs. Our close-knit team of over 50 individuals is composed of tech-savvy, creative, and open-minded professionals who prioritize transparency and open communication

• Component Development: Develop and maintain composable components with well-defined APIs using React and TypeScript.
• Feature Implementation: Propose and evaluate new features and improvements, participating in strategic planning and team collaboration.
• Code Quality: Ensure high standards of code architecture, quality, and performance.
• UI/UX Enhancement: Collaborate with designers to enhance UI interactions and ensure a high-quality, accessible user experience.
• Testing and Reviews: Implement and maintain robust testing strategies, conduct thorough code reviews, and manage version control using Git and GitHub.
• Performance Optimization: Optimize the performance and scalability of the CreativeEditor SDK.