CO and CR onlyBackblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands.
Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $100m in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud - managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals.
But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. We are seeking a Front End Developer to join our team!
What You’ll Do:
You will utilize JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to build performant and accessible user experiences, while leveraging web development best practices. Experience with Webflow and WordPress is a bonus, as we support several teams that rely on those platforms. As a member of our Front End Dev team, you will work closely with our web development and operations, UI/UX, and marketing teams to support both customer-facing features and internal marketing initiatives.You will also be responsible for building out new features and components, improving existing flows, and integrating with third-party tools that support our marketing, sales, and support functions. We’re also expanding our internal API suite—experience collaborating with cross-functional teams on API development is helpful, but not required.
We’re looking for someone that is:
- Eager to collaborate with engineers, marketing, and support to help solve real customer problems
- Building and maintaining reusable front-end components using modern standards
- Supporting the implementation of marketing campaigns, landing pages, and user-facing site updates
- Participating in continuous improvements to site performance and accessibility
- Comfortable working independently from a clearly defined and prioritized queue (we don’t micromanage, but we do plan well)
- Diligent with quality control—we rely on engineers to ship stable, tested code, with support from a small QA team
- Mindful of sustainability in their pace and code quality—we aim for long-term maintainability, not burnout
The Right Fit:
- 3+ years of experience working with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and jQuery
- Experience with Webflow, WordPress, Document360 and HubSpot is highly desired not required
- Understanding of ensuring cross-browser compatibility and browser security for features
- Basic SEO principles and ensuring that applications will adhere to them
- Engineering best practices such as unit testing, and conducting code reviews
- Using mainstream software tests, development tools / applications (Jira, Jenkins, Git, Splunk, etc.)
- Knowledge of HTTP and it’s security best practices
- Familiarity with ES2015+, unit testing
- React Flux, Redux, SASS, Node experience is required
- Experience with third party libraries like Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics
At this point, we hope you're feeling excited about the job description you're reading. Even if you don't meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Learning, developing, and growing are key parts of our culture. We're eager to meet people who believe in our mission and can contribute to our team in various ways. We want people to feel comfortable expressing their true selves and to come, stay, and do their best work here.
At Backblaze, we value being fair and good to our customers, partners, and employees. That’s why diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of our values. We are committed to fostering a workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, socio-economic status, ability, veteran status, and education. We believe that our dedication to cultivating a diverse workspace not only allows us to better serve our customers in over 175 countries, but further reinforces our commitment to doing the right thing. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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