Staff Frontend Engineer, Axios HQ – Axios

58% 1-Year Employee Growth Rate | 133% 2-Year Employee Growth Rate | LinkedIn | $57M Venture Funding

What Is Employee Growth Rate & Why Is It Important?

• Read customer reviews on G2
• Visit AxiosHQ.com
• Watch our launch event

Why it matters: Our Front-End Engineers are a critical part of our mission to deliver the cleanest, smartest, most efficient and trustworthy content to our users. You will architect and grow new and existing codebases, give technical input and feedback to Axios’ product and design teams for new features, and help develop the skills of less experienced developers with industry best practices around testing, accessibility, and documentation.

Go deeper: In this role, you will make an impact to Axios through the following responsibilities:

• Support the creating and evolution of our products, with an emphasis on our newly launched b2b technology, AxiosHQ

• Write clean, well-documented, and well-tested code using best practices for frontend development
• Collaborate with Axios’ platform, product, and design teams to ensure we quickly ship and iterate on high-quality products
• Mentor and coach members of the team through pair-programming and empathetic code review
• Stay up to date with industry trends and advise the team on best practices to implement

The Details: Ideal candidates will embody an entrepreneurial spirit and passion for Axios’ mission and have the following skills:

• Experience building large, high traffic frontend codebases in React
• Proven ability to ship high quality, testable, and accessible code quickly
• Experience working with product designers is preferred
• Experience working with back-end teams to integrate APIs is preferred
• Experience working on page performance and accessibility is preferred

Don’t Forget:

• Competitive salary
• Health insurance (100% paid for individuals, 75% for families)
• Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave
• 401K
• Generous vacation policy, plus company holidays
• Company equity
• Commuter and cell phone benefit
• A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture
• Annual learning and development stipend

Additional pandemic-related benefits:

• One mental health day per quarter
• $100 monthly work-from-home stipend
• Company-sponsored access to Ginger coaching and mental health support
• OneMedical membership, including tele-health services
• Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers
• Access to the Axios “Family Fund”, which was created to allow employees to request financial support when facing financial hardship or emergencies
• Class pass discount
• Virtual company-sponsored social events

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Axios is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Axios makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

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