Squarespace is looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to join the Frontsite Core team. You are an experienced Frontend Engineer who keeps up with the latest techniques in web design. You have experience solving impactful projects. You have a rare blend of creative, technical, and leadership mindsets. No detail escapes you. You are ready to join a team building award-winning websites for a world renowned publishing platform.
Our team spawns new projects from both strategic hypotheses and creative projects. We use data-driven strategy, iteration, and play to create an experience worthy of the customers we attract. This agile team has the freedom to perpetually prototype and integrate new technologies. You’ll work side by side with world-class designers, product managers, and engineers to produce the best work of your career.
This is a hybrid role working from our NYC office 3 days per week. You will report to the Engineering Manager.
You'll Get To…
- Create our impactful websites, including squarespace.com
- Develop new projects with our strategy and creative teams, helping people learn about Squarespace
- Build new prototypes to push the boundaries of our developer platform
- Improve site design and performance across a variety of modern devices
Who We're Looking For
- 5+ years of industry experience
- 1+ years of team leadership experience
- You've built several outstanding websites from concept to launch
- Development skills using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
- Familiar with the latest web techniques and libraries (React, etc.) and understand their opportunities and tradeoffs
- Working knowledge of responsive web design and cross-platform compatible coding techniques
- Experience using data to form and validate strategic hypothesis
- Comfortable with rapid experimentation and iteration
Benefits & Perks
- A choice between medical plans with an option for 100% covered premiums
- Fertility and adoption benefits
- Access to supplemental insurance plans for additional coverage
- Headspace mindfulness app subscription
- Retirement benefits with employer match
- Flexible paid time off
- 12 to 20 weeks of paid family leave
- Equity plan for all employees
- Pretax commuter benefit
- Education reimbursement
- Employee donation match to community organizations
- 6 Global Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
- Dog-friendly workplace
- Free lunch and snacks
- Private rooftop
Cash Compensation Range: $128,500 – $231,500 USD
The base salary for this position will vary based on job-related criteria including relevant skills, experience, and location, among other factors.
In addition to the cash compensation above (which includes base salary and, where applicable for eligible roles, may include on-target commissions or overtime pay), all Squarespace employees are eligible to receive equity in the company as part of their total compensation.
About Squarespace
Squarespace is a design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online. We empower millions of customers in more than 200 countries and territories with all the tools they need to create an online presence, build an audience, monetize, and scale their business. Our suite of products range from websites, domains, ecommerce, and marketing tools, as well as tools for scheduling with Acuity and creating and managing social media presence with Bio Sites and Unfold. Our team of more than 1,500 is headquartered in bustling New York City, with offices in Dublin, Ireland, Aveiro, Portugal, and coworking spaces in the UK, Netherlands, and Australia. For more information about our company culture, visit www.squarespace.com/about/careers.
Our Commitment
Today, more than a million people around the globe use Squarespace to share different perspectives and experiences with the world. Not only do we embrace and celebrate the diversity of our customers, but we also work toward the same in our employees. At Squarespace, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, veteran status, or other class protected by applicable law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
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What We Do
Squarespace is a design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online. We empower millions of customers in more than 200 countries and territories with all the tools they need to create an online presence, build an audience, monetize, and scale their business.
At Squarespace, we celebrate creative possibility. With a culture rooted in curiosity, Squarespace aims to provide its employees with the support to turn possibility into reality – learning from challenges and celebrating progress. At Squarespace we root for customer and employee success, uplifting them with the tools needed to achieve their goals, while also applauding what makes them unique and fulfilled. Our customers and employees alike are imaginative, with the confidence to put their ideas out into the world and welcoming input and iteration. And our people run towards the next frontier to create our success, motivated by the unknown and inspired by “first-ever” opportunities, truly embracing a sense of possibility.
Why Work With Us
Squarespace employees are ownership-minded, builders, tenacious, resourceful, hands-on, humble, self-motivated, experimental, curious, resilient, inclusive, and empathetic.
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