Search Engineer - Front End
Brave
Software Engineering
Remote
Posted on Friday, January 27, 2023
<p> <strong>Search Engineer - Frontend<br>Remote</strong> </p><h4> <strong> <br>About Brave </strong> </h4><p> <span style="font-weight:400;">Brave is on a mission to protect the human right to privacy online. We’ve built a free web browser that blocks creepy ads and trackers by default, a private search engine with a </span> <em> <span style="font-weight:400;">truly</span> </em> </p> <p> <span style="font-weight:400;">The internet is a sea of ads, hackers, and echo chambers. Big Tech makes huge profits off our data, and tells us what’s true and what’s not. Brave is fighting back. Join us!</span> </p> <h4> <strong> <br>Summary </strong> </h4><p> <span style="font-weight:400;">Brave Search is looking for talent to make search.brave.com better. Your work will impact the future of search to be used by millions of people. Brave search engine is fully autonomous and independent with its own ranking, crawling and indexes, aiming to offer a true alternative to Microsoft and Google. Plenty of challenges, if that triggers you and feel you can contribute, do not hesitate to apply.</span> </p> <p>Job Description:</p> <p> <span style="font-weight:400;">As a Frontend Engineer you will be part of our search team and work very closely with our Design, Product, Business Development and Marketing teams.</span> </p> <p> <span style="font-weight:400;">Search is a very performance-sensitive application and you will be responsible for front-end, and some back-end, development. You will own, build, and develop new and existing capabilities into the search page.</span> </p> <p> <span style="font-weight:400;">You should be very familiar with HTML, CSS, Python, Javascript and have strong design principles. We currently use a mixture of tools but are primarily using Fastapi and Svelte. If you obsess over fast, performant, and beautiful web applications then you should apply.</span> </p> <p>Responsibilities</p> <ul> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Communicate with Design, Product to determine requirements and assets for functionality on the Brave Search web application.</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Maintain existing components and features on Brave Search.</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Effectively translate designs into performant and fully responsive pages or apps. This occasionally involves offering design suggestions in order to better accommodate various screen sizes.</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Ensuring high-performance and availability.</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Keeping us to a high security standard</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Work collaboratively with geographically-distributed team members to help identify and fix bugs</span> </li> </ul> <p> <strong> <br>Location </strong> </p><p> <span style="font-weight:400;">Anywhere, but European timezones preferred (or at least a significant overlap with European timezones).</span> </p> <h4> <strong> <br>Requirements </strong> <ul> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Deep understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript.</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Advanced knowledge of Python.</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Experience working with a design team to implement a front-end design system.</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Experience developing API Gateways.</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Experience working with a front-end framework/library such as React, Vue, Angular, or Svelte.</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Experience building a responsive website across various screen sizes</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Understanding of security issues surrounding all aspects of the front-end</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Ability to work fast and under tight deadlines</span> </li> </ul> <h4> <strong> <br>Nice to haves </strong> <ul> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Remote work experience</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Experience with Svelte.</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Understanding CDN systems, cache purging</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Experience deploying and managing AWS services and web apps</span> </li> </ul> <h4> <strong> <br>Working at Brave </strong> <ul> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Industry-leader in privacy, with a research and engineering team that’s innovating everyday to keep people safer online and beat Big Tech</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Highly competitive salaries benefits, and generous home-office stipends</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Fully remote team (no office, no commute)</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Welcoming, humble, ridiculously smart teammates, and a truly flat org structure</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Opportunity to get in early at a hyper-growth company, and revolutionize the web</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Oh, and did we mention Brendan, our CEO co-founder, </span> <em> <span style="font-weight:400;">invented</span> </em> </li> </ul> </h4> </h4> </h4><p> <span style="font-weight:400;"> <br> <span style="font-weight:400;">United States Candidates: The salary range for this role is $70,000 - $200,000 USD, depending on experience.</span> </span> </p><h4> <strong> <br>Check us out </strong> </h4><p> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/brave-software/mycompany/"> <span style="font-weight:400;">LinkedIn</span> </a> <a href="https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Brave-EI_IE2159279.11,16.htm"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Glassdoor</span> </a> <a href="https://brave.com/"> <span style="font-weight:400;">brave.com</span> </a> </p> <p> <br> <br> <br> <br> </p>
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