Frontend Engineer, Docs

Company: Buildwithfern
Location: New York
Posted on: April 17, 2025

Job Description:

OverviewThis role is ideal for ambitious engineers with entrepreneurial goals. Many of us are former or future founders, and this is an opportunity to scale a company from $1M to $10M ARR while partnering with fast-growing tech companies shaping the future of software. We value in-person collaboration and work out of our office in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. Sound like you? Get in touch.What you'll do

• Streamline the developer experience for our monorepo. Streamline the developer experience for our monorepo by sharing your vision of an ideal internal developer experience. Your work will focus on reducing build times, accelerating deploy times, and increasing time-to-ship.
• Manage our frontend infrastructure. Lead the implementation of Storybook, enhance our CI/CD pipeline, optimize web application performance, and implement application monitoring to ensure robust and reliable operations.
• Build user-facing features. Develop features such as a WYSIWYG editor to replace Markdown files with an intuitive in-browser app, and a changelog to track developer documentation changes over time. You'll oversee the architecture, design, deployment, and customer adoption of these features.
• Earn trust with customers. Work with developers from startups, growth-stage companies, and enterprises. Collaborate to understand their needs and define product requirements.What you'll bring
  • 3+ years of professional frontend development experience, ideally including startup environments
  • Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Next.js
  • Experience collaborating with product designers
  • A customer-first mindset, with enthusiasm for engaging with users to ensure we build polished, user-centric products
  • (Bonus) Experience working with the OpenAPI specification, Conjure (Palantir), or Smithy (AWS)What we offer
    • First-hand experience building an early-stage startup
    • A salary of $170,000 to $210,000 and equity
    • Living proximity bonus of $18,000 per year if you choose to live near the office
    • Enjoy breakfast, lunch, and dinner at the office
    • Health, dental, and vision insurance
    • Unlimited vacationOur tech stack
      • Next.js + Vercel (Frontend)
      • Claude + Bedrock (LLM)
      • Fern (API)
      • Microservices: Express (Node.js), FastAPI (Python)
      • Algolia + turbopuffer (Search)
      • Postgres DB + Prisma ORM (Database)
      • AWS (Cloud)About the interview
      • Phone Screen with a founder
      • Technical Interview: Debug
      • Technical Interview: Coding
      • Work Trial (in office)
      • Offer!
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Keywords: Buildwithfern, New Brunswick , Frontend Engineer, Docs, Engineering , New York, New Jersey