QuestDB
The fastest open source time series database
Senior Frontend Engineer
About the role
As a Front End Developer at QuestDB, you will be an integral part of a small tight-knit team, focusing on designing and developing user interfaces. You will write simple, high-quality, scalable, and maintainable code for the long run. You will fully own features and design changes.
The frontend landscape is ever-changing. Therefore, we value programming experience and the "itch" to deliver value, over knowledge of some specific framework.
We expect candidates to be comfortable with: Typescript, React, NextJS, Jest, Cypress, GitHub Actions.
The role requires a strong sense of problem-solving and ownership of UI/UX components and all user-facing interfaces.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain all QuestDB user interfaces
- Ensure a well-performing and consistent UX across all QuestDB products
- Improve and maintain tested and automated releases
- Ensure compatibility with back-end APIs
- Engage with the community to promote new features and gather feedback
Requirements
- 5+ years proven track record of building web front-end software
- Expert knowledge of React, Typescript, HTML and CSS
- Good grasp of popular front-end code build tools
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong team player open to guiding colleagues in your areas of expertise
Nice to have
Having any of the following skills would make a candidate stand out:
- Prior experience with building long-lasting products with scalability in mind
- Knowledge of cloud-native technologies
- Public contributions to open-source projects
- A strong backbone in aesthetic design and functional, delightful UX
About QuestDB
We are building an open-source time series database focused on performance and simplicity.
QuestDB is used to store, process and analyze time series data in real-time across a wide range of industries, such as Financial Services, Energy, Manufacturing, Web3 and Space Exploration. Fortune 500 companies such as Airbus and Yahoo deploy QuestDB for large-scale, data-intensive production systems, some of which serve close to a billion users.
Our open source repository has gathered 13k+ stars in three years and is the fastest-growing in our category. We are a product-first company with a large community of developers. We are a globally distributed remote-first team backed by leading venture capital firms and Y Combinator.
