React Engineer — xCharts

Details of the Role

• Location: Remote (strong preference for UTC-6 to UTC+5).
• Type of work: Full-time (contractor or employee

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for someone with strong front-end skills. More important than specific technical skills though is that you’re a strong problem solver who loves to learn. Details matter to you.

Required

• Expertise in the modern JavaScript ecosystem. MUI’s open-source projects are built on the shoulders of giants, making use of technologies such as ES2021, TypeScript, Node.js, React, Next.js, Webpack, and Babel.
• A track record of demonstrating an eye for product and solving real-world user problems. If you have a knack for solving problems at the root cause, shipping beautiful user interfaces and intuitive APIs, we want you on our team.
• Experience building and shipping production code in a team setting with a passion for writing tested, performant, and high-quality code.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. As part of the team, you’ll interface both directly and indirectly with community members and enterprise customers, and contribute to user documentation. Clear communication is fundamental in creating intuitive and compelling resources.
• Ability to dive into complex problems. You should be able to quickly assess, understand, and iterate upon aspects of our codebase.
• Ready and willing to ask and answer questions. If you’re comfortable saying you’re unsure, asking for help; but equally reaching out to assist others, you’ll be an incredible addition to our team. We thrive because of continuous learning. First-time mistakes should be celebrated, not blamed.
• Experience or interest in drawing technologies. Charts use SVG and canvas which implies using other API than HTML/CSS. Hope you know them or enjoy discovering new documentation.
• Avoid monolithic deliverables. You scope and stage your work into well-defined milestones to ship.
• Past work with front-end infrastructure. Perhaps you’ve created your company’s design system, written a Babel plugin, or written complex React components. It would be great if you could address this in your cover letter!

Nice to have (but not required)

• You’ve experience with charts. You have contributed to building chart libraries, integrated charts in a design system, or contributed to chart intensive applications. You have built complex and advanced features while making sure the accessibility was fully functional.
• You’ve contributed to a design system before. You have worked on enterprise components in the past, maybe for internal use in your company. You have built complex and advanced features while making sure the accessibility was fully functional.
• You’ve maintained an active repository before. Maybe you’ve helped maintain a popular open-source repository, or perhaps you’ve worked on internal repositories that saw contributions from multiple teams. Previous experience with highly active repository workflows is a definite plus for this role.
• You have contributed code. A history of contributing to MUI’s open-source projects is a plus.