BuzzFeed is looking for an experienced front-end developer who is passionate about building software to join our site team, supporting BuzzFeed.com. BuzzFeed’s engineering team runs a lean, iterative development process where we deploy early and often. You'll report to an engineering manager on the BuzzFeed Originals team.

We’re looking to move more of our development from T3 and Backbone to React and in this role you’ll help to lead us forward in this direction. You will help empower your team to continue working productively on the feed and article pages on buzzfeed.com. The scope of what you’ll be working on could include: creating new destinations centered on well performing verticals, setting standards for how do automated testing, creating entirely new Quiz formats, and increasing community engagement with new interactive features.

You will join a forward-looking company packed full of highly-engaged people with the thirst to do great things through dedication to data, giving a voice to marginalized groups, with groundbreaking news investigations and new brands such as Tasty.

We’d love for you to join us on this journey

What you'll do:

• Lead technical initiatives and day-to-day operations of your team
• Mentor and train junior members of the tech team
• Work collaboratively with other teams across tech; other technical leaders and design/product/qa
• Help translate our goals on technical projects
• Perform code reviews and architecture reviews

Who you are:

• Someone with excellent front-end web development skills
• An understanding of semantic and accessible markup patterns for flexible reuse
• Experience with scalable and maintainable CSS/Sass architectures, and an understanding of how to manage complexity.
• Excellent JavaScript programming skills. You should have a fundamental understanding of the language and experience structuring large, modular applications.
• You have shipped products built with React and would like to be an advocate for React at BuzzFeed.
• Good understanding of techniques such as Responsive Web Design and progressive enhancement.
• Knowledge of strategies to improve FE performance (both load and runtime)
• Experience working with automated testing solutions and understanding of the pros and cons.
• Understanding of Service Oriented Architectures and consuming RESTful web services.
• Interest in mentoring team members and assisting with their professional development.
• Experience working with continuous delivery and understanding of the associated processes.

A big plus would be:

• You can go full-stack if you need to (python, Docker, AWS)
• Healthy interest in emerging platform level technologies - http/2, service worker, offline storage, etc.
• A level of familiarity with AWS or similar Cloud infrastructure associated tooling

Life at BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed strongly believes that the more diverse our team, the better our work will be. BuzzFeed is committed to equal opportunity employment and celebrates inclusion in all circumstances. As a BuzzFeed employee, you can expect:

• A supportive, inclusive atmosphere on a team that values your contributions
• Opportunities for growth and development via work experience and offerings from our in-house Learning Team
• Employee resource groups, frequent in-office events, volunteer opportunities, and more
• An attractive compensation package, including salary and equity
• A generous and well-rounded benefits program featuring PTO and unlimited sick time, comprehensive medical benefits, a family leave policy, access to mental health platforms, retirement plans, gym and wellness discounts, 401k with company match, and much more
• No shortage of snacks, catered lunches, beverages, birthday treats... even leftovers from the Tasty kitchens in LA and NYC