Software Engineer, Front End

Paperless Post is seeking a software engineer that specializes in the frontend to help develop our JavaScript application with more than five million unique visitors per month. In this role, you’ll work within a dedicated and fully staffed feature team to build and maintain user-facing features and libraries that are essential for cross-functional development teams.  

You’ll use your experience building performant, user-focused web applications to implement the tools and software that allow our users to create best-in-class event pages and greeting cards. You will work with React, Redux, TypeScript, NextJS, and GraphQL to build a range of functionality helping users to create, send, and manage custom event pages.  Your contributions will make a meaningful impact on a complex consumer product used by millions of users. 

This role will offer the opportunity to work across our product, including our web-based editor for designing dynamic web pages and our event management platform, which helps event hosts connect with their guests. 

A little bit about us

The PP Engineering team, a highly collaborative group of developers and technologists, is charged with building and refining a consumer-facing product that millions of people interact with each month. The team you’ll be joining focuses on the highest priority projects across our product domains and is made up of engineers, product managers, QA, and product designers.  We prioritize creativity and continuing education, and our ongoing commitment to quality code shows in our pragmatic but brave approach to technology.

What you’ll do here

• Develop and maintain our applications with reusable, testable, and resilient components that foster a consistent user experience.
• Contribute to the design, development, and testing of React (TypeScript, NextJS), React Native, and GraphQL.
• Ensure code quality and maintainability through participation in code reviews and testing.
• Assist in writing user stories for new features.
• Troubleshoot and debug software issues.
• Actively participate in developing useful API contracts between Front End and Back End 
• Coordinate with technical leads on best practices and align on implementation strategies.

• Implement interfaces and queries between the Front End and Back End using GraphQL

What you bring to the table

• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Must have a minimum of 3 years of experience developing for web or mobile platforms in React or React Native
• Strong experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and modern React.
• Familiarity with Next.js, SSR concepts, and frontend tooling.
• Solid understanding of HTML, CSS, responsive layouts, and accessibility basics.
• Hands-on React Native experience building and shipping features.
• Some experience with backend development is helpful, especially familiarity with designing simple APIs, understanding basic data flow, and contributing to light Go or GraphQL resolver work.
• Knowledge of good design and UX.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable code and collaborate effectively.
• Experience in Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Golang, or Java is a plus.
• Experience working on e-commerce or consumer-facing products is desirable.

Company-wide, we enjoy an amazing ecosystem of an even gender split and a balance of engineers and designers. Because Paperless Post isn't supported by ad revenue, we can focus our efforts on creating and improving on the ideal version of our platform, product, content, and partnerships for our users. 

We are proud that Paperless Post has helped over 220 million people globally connect in the real world since our inception. Paperless Post exists to help all people celebrate all the moments that matter to them. We believe that having a team reflective of the diverse world around us empowers us to create a product that serves everyone. Women, people of color, trans/genderqueer individuals, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are especially encouraged to apply.

AI Usage Note

At Paperless Post, we value Being Resourceful, Progress Over Perfection, and being a Positive Force. Embracing thoughtful AI use is one way we put those values into practice. In our day-to-day work, we encourage teams to thoughtfully use AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot to move faster and think more creatively.

During interviews, our recruiting team may use AI-powered note-taking tools so we can stay focused on the conversation.

However, our interviews are designed to understand each candidate’s individual skills, problem-solving approach, and reasoning in real time. For that reason, unless explicitly requested and/or approved by the recruiting team, AI tools (including but not limited to generative AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, etc.) may not be used during any interview sessions, including but not limited to:

-Recruiting phone interviews

-Technical Screens 

-Live coding challenges

-System design interviews

-Take-home assignments

These conversations are intended to assess your independent thinking and technical depth. If we determine that AI tools were used without disclosure or approval during an interview, it may result in disqualification for the role and removal from the interview process.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations. This policy does not apply to approved accessibility or disability accommodations. If you require assistive technology or other support, please let the recruiting team know.

The compensation range for this role is $112,500 - 145,000 USD. 

At Paperless Post, compensation is based on a number of factors, including geographic location, job-related skills, years of experience, and internal team banding. All full-time offer packages come with a base salary, equity component, and options for fully paid medical, dental, and vision benefits. The range posted here is based on the NYC market and may vary based on candidate location.

While this position is remote-friendly, we can only employ in the following locations: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, California, Colorado, Ohio, Texas, Florida, Illinois, Washington, Maine.