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Front End Engineer

San Francisco, California, United StatesRemoteFull Time$150–$250 /yrPosted 2 months agoHidden Gem · YC Startup

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Role summary

Fifth Door is seeking a passionate Front-End Engineer to deliver outstanding user experiences for their turn-based gaming platform. This role involves architecting, developing, and maintaining highly responsive web applications using React and Typescript. Responsibilities include collaborating with cross-functional teams, ensuring technical feasibility of UI/UX designs, optimizing for speed and scalability, writing clean code, and troubleshooting performance issues. Must have 3+ years of experience, proficiency with React, Typescript, build pipelines, RESTful APIs, WebSockets, Git, agile environments, and AI tools in development. Experience with web animations and backend technologies is a plus.

## **About Us**

Fifth Door unlocks the power of imagination by making it easy for anyone to create, share, and play turn-based games anywhere, with anyone. We exist to inspire connection, creativity, and community through the limitless joy of games.

Create. Play. Anywhere.

## **About the Role**

We are seeking a **Front-End Engineer** who is passionate about delivering outstanding user experiences that delight our users. This is an opportunity to join a fast-moving, ambitious team where your work will have real impact from day one.

## **Responsibilities**

* Architect, develop, and maintain highly responsive and user-friendly web applications.
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn mockups and prototypes into elegant, functional code.
* Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
* Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
* Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
* Identify and troubleshoot front-end performance issues.
* Stay current with front-end trends and emerging technologies, bringing ideas back to the team.

## **Qualifications**

**Must-Have:**

* 3+ years of experience as a front-end engineer or similar role.
* Expert proficiency with React and Typescript.
* Strong understanding of cross-browser compatibility, responsive design, and accessibility standards.
* Familiarity with modern build pipelines and tools (Webpack, Vite, Rollup, etc.).
* Experience integrating with RESTful APIs and WebSockets.
* Git proficiency and experience working in an agile development environment.
* Proficiency using AI tools in development workflows

**Nice-to-Have:**

* Interest or experience in animations on the web.
* Some familiarity with back-end technologies is a plus.
* Passion for gaming, creative tools, or AI applications.

## **Benefits**

* Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
* Health, dental, and vision coverage.
* Flexible work hours and unlimited vacation policy.
* A collaborative, supportive team environment.
* Opportunity to shape product direction and culture early.
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