About

• Position: Front-end Developer
• Company: Distance
• Work Hours: Full-time, Remote (EST Hours)

Company

• Distance is a powerful platform designed to help businesses enhance communication with their customers, streamline lead collection, and prioritize business opportunities. Distance combines software, AI agents, and personalized support to serve as the supercharged back-office for businesses. With an intuitive, user-friendly interface, Distance simplifies customer relationship management, making it easier for companies to focus on growth and achieving their revenue goals. Learn more at distance.so.

Responsibilities

• Develop, ship and maintain Distance’s front-end application.
• Develop, ship and maintain high quality interfaces for our marketing pages.
• Work with our designers to transform ideas and design into modern, clean and readable code.
• Implement robust engineering solutions with thoughtful designs across the full-stack.
• Shepherd products from design and specification to live deployments.

Requirements

• Must have 2+ years of experience building front-end applications, component libraries, design systems, and tools using TypeScript and NodeJS - Work experience or school projects / side projects.
• Front-end development experience building, running, and debugging web applications using functional programming in NextJS, NodeJS.
• Experience in debugging and optimizing NextJS performance issues whether in application code or in the JavaScript and TypeScript bundler.
• High attention to detail in translating high/low fidelity designs to implementation, user experience and accessibility, and understanding scope.
• Experience with AI coding copilot or generator (v0, Cursor, Windsurf etc.) is a plus.
• Experience with back-end APIs and integration work is considered a strong plus.
• Proficient in English with good writing and communication skills.

Background & Characteristics

• Willingness to work hard and achieve very ambitious goals.
• An ability to think through customer requirements to come up with high-impact ways of quickly solving their problems.
• A passion about performance, user experience and design.
• A high bar for the quality of code and quality of user experience.
• Familiarity with current trends and best practices in front-end architecture.