Visual development for React, starting with e-commerce
Replo enables companies to build websites with less code. The team is building the world’s first platform and marketplace for creating and distributing the UI building blocks of the web — enabling commercial teams to build ultra-customizable websites like lego blocks.
At its core, Replo is building the world's first web component app store + visual editor built on React
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC8MU05ZkyY
We're open to remote positions, but for this role, we prefer if you're located in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, or within +/- 3 hours of these timezones.
Replo was founded by Yuxin and Noah in 2021. They've been friends since freshmen year studying Computer Science at Cal. They've raised over $2.6M from YCombinator, Infinity Ventures, MAGIC Fund, as well as the founders of NextJS/Vercel. Noah was previously principal engineer at Plangrid, Yuxin ran the Commerce team at Uber.
Be a critical part of technical and product roadmap for our no-code storefront development platform
Build products across our stack (using React, Typescript, and more) that enable our customers to build differentiated user experiences online
Architect full-stack systems across our product area (e.g. creating an SSR publishing flow for Replo components, or integrating Replo components with different third-party systems) and lead the implementation of these projects with our engineering team
Collaborate directly with our team and customers to ship stable, maintainable code while iterating as fast as possible
Hopefully have a blast working with us 😇
Has professional experience building performant frontend web applications (5 years of professional experience preferred)
Has a very product and customer focused mindset
Is very experienced in Typescript, React, HTML, CSS
Understands the value of writing clean, maintainable software, including documentation
Is comfortable with ambiguity and defining software architecture patterns to solve customer pain points
Is self-driven and can roll with the punches in a fast-paced environment where priorities and requirements may change frequently
Not wasted hours interview-prepping on Leetcode 😭
Worked at or founded an early-stage startup previously
Have experience with modern full-stack React frameworks like Next.js or Remix (the founder of NextJS/Vercel is one of our investors)
Experience in Python or other programming languages, or interest in learning
An eye for visual design (or past experience in product design, Figma, etc)
Today there’s millions of e-commerce businesses built on platforms like Shopify but developing websites for them is still a terrible experience. Engineers have to be involved in every change and can’t even use basic frameworks like React.
Our product is a drag-and-drop editor for visually building React applications, starting with e-commerce. It’s backed by our super-flexible content management system and commerce APIs which integrates with 3rd-party platforms, including product, subscription, and user-defined data.
Our founders have worked together for 10+ years and previously held principal engineer + management roles at companies like Uber, Plangrid, Autodesk, and Yelp. Replo is backed by Y Combinator and folks in the e-commerce and open-source community, including the creator of NextJS.