Staff Frontend/NodeJS Engineer

About the role

At Inworld engineering, our philosophy is to enthusiastically pursue both speed and quality. As a startup, speed is a first principle. That said, quality is what makes our products great and our system enjoyable to work on, so we continuously improve to push the frontier on both.

As a Staff Frontend/NodeJS Engineer at Inworld, you will pursue both speed and quality as you contribute myriad ideas, features and improvements to our React-based web experience and to projects that utilize NodeJS.

Note that a number of our most interesting projects aren’t publicly announced, so we can’t go into much detail here. That said, please apply and we can discuss further.

This is an IC-focused role. We are looking for someone who loves direct technical contribution.

What you’ll do

• Collaborate with Product Managers, Backend and ML Engineers, QA and more to identify, refine, and prioritize the most impactful projects we can pursue
• Design, develop, test, and launch features and improvements, both on our developer-focused web app and for NodeJS projects
• Keep improving our web app experience via time-tested design principles: clarity, consistency, feedback, etc., in collaboration with our designers (or even contribute to design yourself if you have the appropriate skills and speed)
• Similarly, ship NodeJS code that is async, modular/well-structured, idiomatic, etc.
• Lean into AI-assisted coding, which is proving very useful for amplifying frontend and NodeJS development.

Expected experience

• Excellent programming skills and experience in JavaScript, TypeScript, and NodeJS
• Experience developing complex React apps, using popular libraries such as React Router and React Query
• Experience with:
  • MUI or similar
  • Emotion or similar
  • PostCSS or similar
  • React Testing Library, Playwright or similar
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, can collaborate and coordinate with other roles and engineer with ease, trusted and well-regarded teammate

Bonus Qualifications

• Familiarity with Cursor or other AI-assisted coding tools
• Familiarity with turborepo
• Experience building AI-centric web apps and familiarity with AI and ML concepts

Candidates must be based in the Vancouver, BC area or willing to relocate (you will be working on-site in our Vancouver office a few days a week). 

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