Front End Developer (Part-time)

Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands.

Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $100m in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud - managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals.

But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. We are seeking a Front End Developer to join our team!

What You’ll Do

You will utilize React and best practices for Web Development. Experience with Webflow and Wordpress are added bonuses as we support several teams which use those tools. As a member of our Front End Dev team, you will work closely with our web development, software design, UI designer and marketing teams.

You will also be responsible for helping build out new features, rethink old processes, and enabling third party systems to empower our marketing/sales/ and support teams. We are expanding our internal API suite and experience developing APIs with cross-functional teams is desired but not required.

We’re Looking For Someone That Is

• Passionate about building friendly, easy to use Interfaces and APIs.
• Likes to work closely with other engineers, support, and marketing to help customers.
• Is comfortable working independently on a mutually agreed upon prioritization queue (we don’t micromanage, we do make sure tasks are reasonably defined and scoped)
• Diligent with quality control. Backblaze prides itself on giving our team autonomy to get work done, do the right thing for our customers, and keep a pace that is sustainable over the long run. As such, we expect everyone that checks in code that is stable. We also have a small QA team that operates as a secondary check when needed.
  
  

The Right Fit

• 3+ years of experience working with React, HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery
• Experience with Webflow, WordPress, Document360 and HubSpot is highly desired not required
• Understanding of ensuring cross-browser compatibility and browser security for features
• Basic SEO principles and ensuring that applications will adhere to them
• Engineering best practices such as unit testing, and conducting code reviews
• Using mainstream software tests, development tools / applications (Jira, Jenkins, Git, Splunk, etc.)
• Knowledge of HTTP and it’s security best practices
• Familiarity with ES2015+, unit testing
• React Flux, Redux, SASS, Node experience is required
• Experience with third party libraries like Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics
  
  

At this point, we hope you're feeling excited about the job description you're reading. Even if you don't meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Learning, developing, and growing are key parts of our culture. We're eager to meet people who believe in our mission and can contribute to our team in various ways. We want people to feel comfortable expressing their true selves and to come, stay, and do their best work here.

At Backblaze, we value being fair and good to our customers, partners, and employees. That’s why diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of our values. We are committed to fostering a workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, socio-economic status, ability, veteran status, and education. We believe that our dedication to cultivating a diverse workspace not only allows us to better serve our customers in over 175 countries, but further reinforces our commitment to doing the right thing. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we're helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands.