(Remote) Sr. Front-End Engineer

Who We Are

Join a team that puts its People First! Since 1889, First American (NYSE: FAF) has held an unwavering belief in its people. They are passionate about what they do, and we are equally passionate about fostering an environment where all feel welcome, supported, and empowered to be innovative and reach their full potential. Our inclusive, people-first culture has earned our company numerous accolades, including being named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for eight consecutive years. We have also earned awards as a best place to work for women, diversity and LGBTQ+ employees, and have been included on more than 50 regional best places to work lists. First American will always strive to be a great place to work, for all. For more information, please visit www.careers.firstam.com.

What We Do

About Us First American is looking for a passionate, energetic, and motivated Sr. Front-end Engineer to join our Business Technology Solutions based in Santa Ana, CA. As First American continues building cloud native products, a front-end engineer is required to help build exciting, responsive interfaces in a complex product.

** Remote Work Welcome**

How You’ll Contribute

We are looking for an experienced JavaScript/Typescript developer who is proficient with React. The primary focus of the selected candidate would be on developing user interface components, implementing, and executing them following well-known React workflows (such as Flux or Redux). Also, ensuring that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to manage. A commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality products are important.

What You’ll Bring

• Interact with multiple teams working on multi-tiered architecture
• Mentor junior staff to grow their skills
• Collaborate with product and design teams to create user-friendly and responsive web applications that meet business requirements
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and debugging to ensure that code meets quality standards
• Ensure that UI is scalable for high loads, secure, and optimized for performance
• Design to support multiple browsers and WCAG compliance
• Develop and maintain high-quality code using React.js, TypeScript, Redux, and other relevant technologies
• Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality code
• Build reusable components and front-end libraries for future use

Technical Skills

• Exposure to AWS and/or Playwright a plus
• Familiarity with more current specifications of EcmaScript
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Understanding of design patterns, state management and data structures
• Prior experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
• Experience with git
• Knowledge of useMemo, useCallback and hooks in general
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript/Typescript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Knowledge of HTML / CSS / SCSS / SASS / LESS / TailwindCss
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs. GraphQL a plus
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience creating unit tests using Jest, Mocha or equivalent
• Experience with browser-based debugging and performance testing
• Thorough understanding of React.js, its core principles and workflows

Pay Range: $86,500 - $192,000 Annually

This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location.

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What We Offer

By choice, we don’t simply accept individuality – we embrace it, we support it, and we thrive on it! Our People First Culture celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion not simply because it’s the right thing to do, but also because it’s the key to our success. We are proud to foster an authentic and inclusive workplace For All. You are free and encouraged to bring your entire, unique self to work. First American is an equal opportunity employer in every sense of the term.

Based on eligibility, First American offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, PTO/paid sick leave and other great benefits like an employee stock purchase plan.