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Lead Front-End Engineer
Ranker Los Angeles, CA
Full Time | Sports & Recreation 7 Months Ago
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Ranker is Hiring a Lead Front-End Engineer Near Los Angeles, CA

What is Ranker?

Ranker is the people-powered source of definitive rankings. Our editors have curated tens of thousands of lists about all aspects of pop culture and beyond. Millions of visitors shape these rankings by voting, making Ranker the ultimate source for the best (and worst) of everything. We also turn the over one billion votes cast on Ranker into opinion graphs of consumer sentiment across all of entertainment and more. These are deep psychographics of what fans love at very granular levels across shows, films, celebrities, games, music and countless other categories. Whatever the topic - TV, movies, video games, sports, brands, food, lifestyle - Ranker puts the vote into the hands of millions rather than a few critics to answer the questions we are most passionate about.

Benefits of Working for Ranker

  • Enhance your leadership skills by joining fast-paced and growing media organization 
  • Competitive compensation package 
  • Competitive benefits plan, including fully-paid medical
  • Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Holidays)
  • Free Food & Snacks
  • Wellness Resources
  • Remote Friendly (We welcome remote candidates from California, New York, Arizona, Illinois, Texas, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Washington)

Lead Front-End Engineer

We are currently looking for a Lead Front-End Engineer to join and lead our growing team. This is a great opportunity to work on a new product for a leading, high traffic site (over 60 million unique visits a month).

Despite the immense traffic we generate, we do all this with a small, talented team of dedicated software engineers who love working with interesting, complex projects. As part of the team you’ll be leading building and optimizing the new implementations of our main site based on Next.js / React. You will also be driving forward improvements in our front end stack to keep us ahead of the curve on technology. You will be using your creativity and knowledge to solve both technical and business problems.

What This Role Entails

  • Work on a modern web app, solving unique challenges and building amazing experiences
  • Communicate and document architectural designs and requirements
  • Collaborate in a team environment, with a variety of developers across the world
  • Contribute directly to the technology, processes and methodology used to solve problems day-to-day
  • Take full ownership for the team and to build, ship, and maintain features, end-to-end
  • Champion and set high standards by mentoring and leading by example
  • Identify technical and business deficiencies and lead the team to fix them
  • Constantly look for ways to make the product better
  • Collaborate with designers, product managers, manual qa / automation engineers, and software engineers to design features and break down high-level features into tasks and timelines
  • Build, document and maintain tests, features, and infrastructure
  • Lead, communicate and document architectural designs and requirements
  • Invent patterns and reusable components that our team can assemble to build things

Who will succeed in this role?

Besides the usual skill set for a Frontend Engineer (i.e. competency in Javascript, React, HTML, CSS), you MUST have:

  • At least 5 years of commercial frontend software engineering experience
  • Strong business acumen and great communication skills
  • Experience optimizing website performance
  • Expert knowledge of React and main related libraries
  • Ability to weigh pros and cons of each library and compare them to the business needs
  • Extensive knowledge of Next.js. Understanding of various ways to render the content, their pros and cons
  • Extensive working knowledge of hand-coded, standards-based, object-oriented Javascript
  • Solid understanding of Redux thunk/Flux Architecture and React’s useContext and useReducer hooks
  • Solid intuition of testing behavior not an implementation with a focus on quality over quantity
  • Experience with REST APIs, and/or social network APIs
  • Experience building complex HTML layouts by hand, without a grid system
  • Solid understanding of web caching strategies and use of CDN
  • Experience working in a high-traffic environment and tools to monitor real user experience

Bonus points if you have:

  • Work experience in an Internet startup, particularly in mobile web apps, entertainment or Ad-driven industries (ie online content, ad tech, social media, etc)
  • Understanding of SEO concepts
  • Working knowledge of advanced CSS concepts
  • Working knowledge of modules, ES6 or ES20xx
  • Experience of configuring Webpack and setting it up from scratch
  • Experience setting up and using Javascript unit test environments

Ranker is the leader in fan-powered rankings on just about everything. Whatever the topic - TV, movies, video games, sports, brands, food - Ranker puts the vote into the hands of millions rather than a few critics to answer the questions we are most passionate about. Over 1 billion votes now power Ranker Insights, a treasure trove of psychographic correlation data that delivers personalized consumer recommendations (“if you like X, you’ll also like Y, Z”) and audience insights to marketers, studios, and platforms seeking a deeper understanding of consumer tastes and preferences. Launched in 2020 and powered by Ranker Insights, Watchworthy is the only statistically relevant, crowd-sourced TV recommendation app available to consumers. Ranker is listed on 2020’s Inc. 5000 and Inc. 5000: California Series; Deloitte’s 2019 Technology Fast 500; Built In LA’s Top 50 Mid-Sized Companies To Work For in 2020 and 2021; and on Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2021 (No. 5). Ranker is headquartered in Los Angeles and has over 115 employees.

Job Summary

JOB TYPE

Full Time

INDUSTRY

Sports & Recreation

POST DATE

08/14/2022

EXPIRATION DATE

11/29/2022

WEBSITE

ranker.com

HEADQUARTERS

LOS ANGELES, CA

SIZE

200 - 500

FOUNDED

2009

TYPE

Private

CEO

SANDRA MARSH

REVENUE

<$5M

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