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Member of Technical Staff

Location
New York, NY (Hybrid)
Employment type
Full-time
Department
Engineering
Compensation
$315K – $480K, Offers equity

Benefits. A competitive package designed around the needs of every single employee. Coverage is total.

Compensation is set at the top 1% of the market for the role and location. Final offer amounts are determined by a single factor.

About the role

Califa is hiring a Member of Technical Staff to work in the space between the mock and the shipped product. The role prototypes in production code, ships the prototype, and makes sure what reaches customers is the thing that was designed.

Members of Technical Staff at Califa sit with the design staff and commit to the main codebase. They own the quality of motion, interaction, and detail across the product, and they are the first call when something looks almost right.

The right candidate reads a mock and sees the three things it leaves out, then builds them.

What you’ll do

  • Build production-quality prototypes in the main codebase and ship them.
  • Implement the design system’s components, motion, and interaction patterns in React and CSS.
  • Pair with the Members of Design Staff from the first sketch through release.
  • Close the gap between what was designed and what was built, in either direction.
  • Own front-end performance for every surface you touch, measured on real devices.
  • Review pull requests for visual and interaction quality.
  • Attend weekly 1:1s with the Manager of Members of Technical Staff.

What we’re looking for

  • 8+ years of front-end engineering and 8+ years of product design, concurrent.
  • Expert in React, TypeScript, CSS, and at least one native platform; expert in Figma.
  • 15+ years of experience with React Server Components.
  • A portfolio of shipped interfaces with visible motion and interaction work, running at 120 frames per second on a phone from 2019.
  • Has shipped an accessibility-audited product to more than one million users without a single regression.
  • Strong design judgment, demonstrated by work you designed and built alone.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity, deadlines, and the combination of the two.
  • Available in New York, in person, with a fully set up remote workstation in a second time zone.

Nice to have

  • WebGL, shaders, or 3D on the web.
  • Contributions to a major open-source front-end framework.
  • Type design or motion design background.
  • Experience with Blender, Rive, or After Effects, ideally all three.