Junior Front-End/UI Engineer

Description

• Collaborate with senior engineers and designers to turn mockups into pixel-perfect, responsive UI components

• Help implement end-to-end UI features that delight users and align with our design system

• Write clear, maintainable JavaScript/TypeScript code under guidance, optimizing for performance and scalability

• Participate in code reviews—both giving and receiving feedback—to continuously level up your skills

• Troubleshoot UI bugs, cross-browser inconsistencies, and accessibility issues

• Stay curious about emerging UI patterns, libraries, and best practices; share your findings with the team

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related) from a top-tier university

• 1–3 years of hands-on UI development experience (including internships at well-known tech companies such as Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, etc.)

• Familiarity with React (or another modern framework like Vue.js or Angular)

• Solid grasp of JavaScript/TypeScript fundamentals

• Comfortable with HTML5, CSS3 (Flexbox/Grid) and responsive design principles

• Basic understanding of cross-browser compatibility and web accessibility standards

• Experience using Git (branching, pull requests, merges)

• Strong communication skills and a growth-mindset attitude

• A portfolio or code samples that demonstrate your UI chops (school projects, open-source contributions, hackathon builds, etc.)

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