Senior Software Engineer, Text Editor - job 1 of 2

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.

Why Lattice? 

We are rapidly growing across multiple dimensions, including our customer base, the scope of products we offer, and the size of the engineering team. Now is the opportune time for a strong candidate to join, take on outsized ownership, and continue to grow with us.

We invest in the personal and professional growth of every employee because we believe growth leads to both business impact and personal fulfillment

The opportunity to join an experienced and ambitious team that is passionate about solving customers’ needs and loves coming to work every day

Partner with 2,750+ companies around the world to make sure their employees are engaged and performing at a high level

A culture that encourages and promotes professional growth and development, with continuous learning reimbursements

Competitive salary, equity, and benefits

Hybrid work model with a mix of work from home and centrally located office

Flexible vacation/time-off policy

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 3,100 customers globally, including brands like Slack, Pinterest, Reddit, and Asana.

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