Position: Senior Chrome extension engineer (VanillaJS)
Company: DataRoot Labs
Category: JavaScript
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2022-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

Our roadmap is an exciting combination of deepening functionality for team leaders and extending functionality for end-users — helping them be more effective and efficient in their writing.

**Traction and backing**

Our customers include Twitter, Intuit, UiPath, Pinterest, and InVision. It's a great community of writers, content strategists, copyeditors, and editorial leaders. They are a true community and the content vanguard. We have an NRR of +130% and we're just getting started.

Our funnel is large and growing fast (+1M visitors/month, thousands of weekly trial starts). This is important, as you'll have nearly instant feedback on the features you'll be building or the growth experiments you'll be running.

We're backed by the best funds in the game and a world-class group of founders, operators, and angels. (Series A not yet announced 🤫 but we will share more when we meet.)

**About this role**

With Writer, you'll be working closely with the founders and the engineering team to build, manage, and scale a user experience that tens of thousands of people rely on every day.

As a senior Chrome extension engineer, you’ll be the engineering lead on our Chrome extension, which is how many customers spend most of their time in Writer. 

You’ll build key feature sets for the Chrome experience, from FTUE to onboarding flows to the embedded product experience itself. You’ll optimize the extension code for performance and responsiveness, and you'll make sure it works great across the web.

We’re looking for someone with great UX and UI sensibilities who can make thoughtful, beautiful decisions on things usually decided by PMs and designers.


**Your responsibilities**

- Build out our incredible Chrome extension roadmap (very excited to tell you about the upcoming features)
- Build modular, reusable components that can empower you and other engineers to build well-designed features efficiently
- Update extension architecture as changes are made to browser extension APIs and deployment mechanisms
- Make sure every part of the Chrome extension is staggeringly fast
- Monitor for errors in the browser extension, and improve our analytics and tracking systems
- Write test-oriented code that covers common user workflows to guarantee stability across all browsers and priority websites
- Work closely with our product team to design and develop new features
- Contribute to an early, special team and help us build on our strong engineering culture


**Is this you?**

- 3+ years professional experience in front end engineering, including working on at least one product with significant (+100K DAUs) traffic
- Expert at VanillaJS and ES6 outside the context of a UI framework
- Strong understanding of browser technologies, including developer tools, the DOM, CSS selectors, etc.
- Experience with JavaScript build tooling (Webpack/Node/Bundler)
- Experience in multiple JavaScript frameworks (React and Angular.js)
- Experience building browser extensions across multiple browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge)
- Full-stack experience, especially in JavaScript


**And:**

- Proactive communication skills, both sync and async
- Sets the highest possible UX and UI bar for what you ship: it’s consumer-grade or bust
- A love for good writing


**Benefits**

- Startup culture, a strong product-oriented team that consists of Tech Leads and Senior specialists.
- Working with the newest technical equipment (MacBook Pro 16″).
- 20 working days of annual vacation leave.
- English courses, educational events and conferences are covered by the company upon request.
- Premium medical insurance is covered by the company.