Who you are

You have 5+ years of professional experience writing and maintaining JavaScript applications for the Web. You have strong opinions about client-side text editing, and you have the technical expertise to do something about it.

• You’re an expert in working with the Slate text editor framework, or a similar client-side rich text editor. Very likely you have worked on custom plugins.
• You know Markdown like the back of your hand, and are familiar with its popular variations.
• You’re fluent in React and in modern JavaScript, and are at least familiar with TypeScript.
• Ideally, you have some familiarity with any of the following: Collaborative text editing, web sockets, Y.js, CRDTs in general.

You’re a great communicator and collaborator.

• You take care to write code that your colleagues will also own, understand, and maintain.
• You’re comfortable training and mentoring other engineers in technical contexts that are new to them.
• You’re clear and concise in explaining your thought process and in enumerating the tradeoffs made in your work.
• You work well with designers and product managers to come up with optimal solutions. 

You enjoy taking an active role in the development process.

• You’re comfortable working across multiple product development teams to support them in leveraging your work.
• You habitually seek out the root cause when debugging software defects, and champion improvements that prevent future issues.
• You have experience taking the lead in planning and executing the development roadmap for software projects.

Responsibilities

• You’ll be the lead technical resource for developing our rich text editing component, which is one of the most complex and mission-critical pieces of front-end technology in our growing product.
• You’ll work with other product engineers to create a more robust experience for users authoring rich text across Lattice’s products, including making architectural decisions, managing upstream dependencies, and improving test coverage.
• You’ll ensure that Markdown rendering in Lattice’s products is consistent and robust across different platforms, including desktop web, mobile web, mobile applications, and notifications.
• You’ll manage the internal migration of existing content to new, future-proof formats. 
• You’ll build new features to enhance the experience of users creating text content in Lattice, possibly including @mentions, content embedding, real-time collaboration, and offline support.

About Lattice 

Lattice is on a mission to build cultures where employees and their companies thrive 💪. In an age where employees have more choice than ever before, businesses that put employees first are winning – and Lattice is building the tools to empower those people-centric companies. Lattice is a people management platform that offers performance reviews, employee engagement surveys, real-time feedback, weekly check-ins, goal setting, and career planning in a way that allows companies to focus on employee development, growth, and engagement – yielding stronger employee retention, performance, and impact to the bottom line 📈. Since launching in 2016 we have grown to over 3,500+ customers globally, including brands like Slack, Pinterest, Reddit, and Asana. 

What else does Lattice have to offer? We’re so glad you asked! We invest in our people’s personal and professional growth because that sort of growth begets business impact and personal fulfillment 🤗. We believe in the value of continued learning investments 🤓and reimbursements. We offer a competitive salary (including equity💸) and our benefits are thoughtful. We believe that taking the time for you is important and have a flexible vacation/time-off policy to prove it. We even incorporated Lattice “Recharge Days” 🔋 to ensure you’re getting a break every month. Lattice has also implemented a 💻 remote-first hybrid model (team-dependent, you work from wherever makes you most comfortable). If that gets you excited, now is the perfect time to join; so bring your appetite for ownership and creation and help Lattice continue to grow! 🎉

Lattice is committed to equal treatment and opportunity in all aspects of recruitment, selection, and employment without regard to gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law. Lattice is an equal opportunity employer; committed to a community of inclusion, and an environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.

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