Senior Front End Engineer (React, TypeScript) at DuckDuckGo

About DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo is an online protection company and a remote first team of more than 300 people on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. Founded in 2008 and profitable since 2014, annual revenue now exceeds $100m USD. Millions of people use the DuckDuckGo browser on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android, along with the search engine and the DuckDuckGo subscription. The company also offers private, useful, and optional AI through Duck.ai, which allows users to chat privately with ChatGPT, Claude, and other AIs in one place.

The culture of trust, inclusivity, and empowered project management underpins everything. Each team member takes full ownership of their projects, from scoping and execution to postmortem. If you are seeking end to end ownership of your work, this is the right place.

Your Team and Role

Working on the Frontend Functional team, you will build and own features across new and existing products using React and TypeScript, and work on related projects. Recent projects include creating a new Instant Answer on the search page (such as weather or calculator), building an in app onboarding experience, and text ad optimizations.

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will build scalable user interfaces, leading and contributing to the development of new and existing products and features. You will demonstrate ownership over major components of the codebase while taking responsibility for their maintenance and improvement over time. In addition to writing pragmatic, performant, and testable code that works consistently across settings, devices, and browsers, you will play a key role in improving the frontend software architecture, all while prioritizing privacy and user experience throughout the engineering process.

About You

• 7+ years of experience in positions where your primary responsibility was writing code
• Advanced level of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS expertise
• Advanced level of React and TypeScript
• Advanced level of web application architecture expertise
• Ability to lead engineering projects with little to no oversight
• Experience building large scale web applications
• Experience identifying success criteria and metrics and validating decisions against them
• Experience collaborating with backend engineers and other platforms such as Android and iOS
• Experience collaborating with product and design to build polished consumer facing products
• Ability to contribute to technical architecture decisions for complex products
• Willingness to learn new technologies and ideas