Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Whisky Library is a U.S.-based whiskey retail and subscription company building a modern way to discover and purchase bourbon. The Senior Frontend Developer will build and scale customer-facing experiences across its eCommerce and subscription platforms, collaborating with product, design, marketing, and backend engineering to deliver high-quality web features.
Responsibilities
- Build modern, responsive, and high-performance web applications using React and Next.js
- Develop customer-facing features across our eCommerce store, subscription platform, customer portal, and internal tools
- Translate Figma designs into clean, reusable, and maintainable code
- Ensure a consistent experience across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices
- Optimize page performance, Core Web Vitals, and overall frontend architecture
- Collaborate with product managers and designers to build intuitive customer experiences
- Work closely with backend engineers to integrate APIs and third-party services
- Participate in feature planning, technical discussions, and architecture decisions
- Continuously improve application usability, accessibility, and performance
- Write clean, scalable, and well-tested code following modern engineering best practices
- Review pull requests and contribute to maintaining high development standards
- Refactor and improve existing codebases for maintainability and performance
- Identify and resolve bugs before they impact customers
- Work cross-functionally with design, marketing, operations, and engineering teams
- Take ownership of projects from planning through deployment
- Proactively identify technical improvements and opportunities to improve customer experience
- Contribute ideas that help improve development workflows and engineering processes
- Take full ownership of the features you build from development through deployment
- Deliver high-quality code without sacrificing speed
- Think beyond implementation and consider the overall customer experience
- Proactively identify problems and propose scalable solutions
- Collaborate effectively across engineering, design, and business teams
- Continuously improve both the product and the engineering processes
Skills
- • 4+ years of professional frontend development experience
- • Strong experience with React.js and Next.js
- • Excellent knowledge of TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, and CSS3
- • Experience with modern styling frameworks such as Tailwind CSS
- • Experience consuming REST APIs and working with asynchronous data
- • Strong understanding of responsive design and cross-browser compatibility
- • Experience using Git in collaborative development environments
- • Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- • Strong communication skills and ability to work independently in a remote environment
- • Experience with Shopify or Shopify Hydrogen
- • Experience building eCommerce or subscription-based applications
- • Familiarity with GraphQL
- • Experience with state management libraries such as Zustand or Redux
- • Understanding of performance optimization and Core Web Vitals
- • Experience with testing frameworks such as Jest, Playwright, or Cypress
- • Familiarity with Vercel deployment workflows and modern CI/CD pipelines
Benefits
- Help build a category-defining DTC whiskey brand in a rapidly evolving industry
- Work on meaningful products used by thousands of customers
- High-impact role with direct influence on product direction and customer experience
- Small, highly collaborative team where your work is immediately visible
- Opportunity to own major features and contribute to technical architecture
- Remote-first culture with significant autonomy and trust
- Opportunities for long-term growth
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