Senior Frontend Software Engineer

Overview

About Us

Cast & Crew has empowered creativity and supported the global entertainment industry for decades. Together with our family of brands — Backstage, CAPS, Checks & Balances, Final Draft, Media Services, Sargent-Disc, and The TEAM Companies — we operate as a combined entertainment technology and services provider offering industry standard screenwriting accounting software, digital payroll products, data & reporting, and a host of creative tools.

The industry continues to move faster than ever, and the need for our expertise, our technology, and our people has never been greater. We are a production’s best ally every step of the way. #One Cast One Crew

Backstage is seeking a Frontend Software Engineer to join our passionate web team. Our frontend team includes mid and senior level engineers, tech leads, and an engineering manager. This team is part of Backstage’s larger product and engineering department, which includes frontend, backend, iOS, and devops engineers, designers, product managers, data analysts, and quality assurance resources. We value curiosity, trust, and impact, and we foster a culture of constant learning and improvement where teammates work together to accomplish user-focused initiatives.

• What You’ll Do:
  • Partner with product, marketing, business intelligence, and design teams to create beautiful, usable interfaces for desktop and mobile web
  • Design engineering plans to meet the requirements of the product or goal
  • Leverage a modern tech stack, including Type Script and React, to build complex web applications
  • Contribute to and influence the overall frontend architecture decisions
  • Build and maintain payment workflows and tools, including our checkout forms; manage the integrations with Stripe
  • Work closely with product, marketing, and customer service to translate customer feedback into successful features and tools
  • Collaborate with front-end engineers outside your feature team to maintain shared code and front-end infrastructure
  • Coordinate with back-end engineers to provide a cohesive experience

• What we’re looking for from you:
  • Proven experience building a major product or feature from scratch at scale for a large public-facing web application
  • Advanced proficiency with Typescript and React; experience writing custom hooks
  • Deep understanding of various state management and data fetching approaches in the React ecosystem
  • Knowledgeable of the trade-offs of different rendering techniques (server-side-rendering, static-site-generation, client-side rendering)
  • Familiarity with common front-end development tools such as Webpack, eslint, npm, etc.
  • Experience incrementally rolling out new features, components or refactors without blocking the rest of the team, and iterating upon and maintaining live products
  • Strong project management skills; able to organize, adhere to process, and execute projects across disciplines and by deadline
  • Excellent communication skills; you can articulate clearly, thoroughly, and concisely to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Comfortability with the entire development life cycle (inception to release) in an Agile environment
  • Collaborative, engaged, and adaptable; you are comfortable joining a team with a large, mature codebase with established engineering processes
  • Flexible and proactive, you’re able to shift gears quickly in a fast-paced environment
  • Familiarity with Python and/or Django a plus

• Special Work Conditions
  • Sedentary – Involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Some positions may entail exerting up to 15 lbs. of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force to lift, carry, push, or pull.
  • This is a hybrid role, with in-person presence at the New York office required a few times per month.

Cast & Crew provides a comprehensive package of employee benefits including:
Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO, health and wellness programs, employee discounts, and more!

Note:

Cast & Crew benefits are subject to eligibility requirements.

Cast & Crew is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. It is our policy to provide equal…