Senior Software Engineer, Frontend

• Full-time

When you join Turnitin, you'll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For over 25 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Over 21,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services: Feedback Studio, Originality, Gradescope, ExamSoft, Similarity, and iThenticate.

Experience a remote-centric culture that empowers you to work with purpose and accountability in a way that best suits you, supported by a comprehensive package that prioritizes your overall well-being. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education.

Turnitin is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer with strong expertise in modern frontend technologies such as web components, React, and microfrontends. This role is ideal for engineers passionate about designing and delivering intuitive, high-performing, and reliable user interfaces that support our award-winning educational platform.

As a core contributor to our product development team, you will play a critical role in shaping the user experience of both existing and new applications. You will collaborate closely with backend engineers, designers, and product managers to create scalable and engaging solutions that meet the needs of educators and students worldwide.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain highly efficient, reusable, and scalable web components using Stencil.js, TypeScript, and React.
• Build modular and reusable UI components to ensure consistency and maintainability across projects.
• Establish and enforce best practices for component design, including accessibility (WCAG compliance), performance optimization, and responsive design.
• Collaborate with the team to define the architecture of the design system or reusable component library.
• Ensure seamless integration of web components into various applications, particularly within React projects.
• Work closely with backend engineers to design APIs that enable efficient data flow and interaction with frontend components.
• Code Quality & Standards:
  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code, adhering to modern standards and practices.
  • Perform regular code reviews and ensure adherence to best practices and coding standards.
• Create robust unit and integration tests for web components.
• Debug and resolve performance bottlenecks and other frontend issues.
• Work closely with designers and product managers to understand requirements and provide technical insights during the planning phase.
• Mentor junior frontend engineers, sharing knowledge on web components, Stencil.js, TypeScript, and React.
• Performance Optimization:
  • Continuously improve the performance of web components, ensuring compatibility with various browsers and platforms.
  • Optimize assets and rendering pipelines for faster load times and better user experience.
• Documentation & Support:
  • Create comprehensive documentation for the developed reusable components, including usage guidelines and examples.
  • Provide technical support to teams integrating the components into their projects.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging frontend technologies, particularly in web components and frameworks like Stencil.js and React.
• Proactively suggest improvements to existing tooling, frameworks, or processes to enhance team efficiency and product quality.
• Cross-functional Collaboration:
  • Collaborate with DevOps to streamline CI/CD processes for frontend builds and deployments.
  • Ensure smooth handoff of frontend deliverables to QA and collaborate on addressing issues during testing.

Essential Qualifications, Skills, and Knowledge/Experience:

• 6+ years of professional experience in frontend development, with at least 2 years working on web components and React projects and building micro-frontends.
• Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining reusable component libraries or design systems used across multiple projects.
• Strong expertise in web components development using Stencil.js or similar frameworks.
• Advanced knowledge of React and experience building reusable, high-performance components. Deep understanding of TypeScript, including advanced types, generics, and best practices for scalable codebases.
• Experience with unit testing, integration testing, and frameworks like Jest, React Testing Library, or similar tools.
• Knowledge of frontend performance best practices, including rendering optimization, lazy loading, and asset management.
• Experience with modern build tools like Webpack, Rollup, or Vite.
• Proficiency with version control systems like Git.
• Familiarity with creating or maintaining design systems and component libraries.
• Understanding of accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG) and responsive design principles.
• Proven experience collaborating effectively with designers, product managers, and backend teams across geographically distributed time zones, including Europe and the USA, to deliver seamless and cohesive user experiences.
• Strong communication skills to articulate technical concepts and collaborate effectively.
• Hands-on experience writing comprehensive test cases to ensure code quality and reliability.
• Familiarity with integrating frontend builds into CI/CD pipelines.

Preferred Qualifications, Skills, and Knowledge/Experience:

• Understanding or experience with AI/ML.
• Understanding or experience with backend technologies.
• Familiarity with tools like Storybook for component documentation.
• Experience working with Agile/Scrum teams.

Total Rewards @ Turnitin
Turnitin maintains a Total Rewards package that is competitive within the local job market. People tend to think about their Total Rewards monetarily — solely as regular pay plus bonus or commission. This is what they earn in exchange for what they do. However, Turnitin delivers more than just these components. Beyond the intrinsic rewards of unleashing your potential to positively impact global education, and thriving in an organization that is free of politics and full of humble, inclusive and collaborative teammates, the extrinsic rewards at Turnitin include generous time off and health and wellness programs that offer choice and flexibility and provide a safety net for the challenges that life presents from time to time.

Our Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes.

Our Values underpin everything we do.

• Customer Centric - We realize our mission to ensure integrity and improve learning outcomes by putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.
• Passion for Learning - We seek out teammates that are constantly learning and growing and build a workplace which enables them to do so.
• Integrity - We believe integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin. It shapes our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.
• Action & Ownership - We have a bias toward action and empower teammates to make decisions.
• One Team - We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each other's successes.
• Global Mindset - We respect local cultures and embrace diversity. We think globally and act locally to maximize our impact on education.

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Seeing Beyond the Job Ad
At Turnitin, we recognize it's unrealistic for candidates to fulfill 100% of the criteria in a job ad. We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of the requirements because we know that skills evolve over time. If you're willing to learn and evolve alongside us, join our team

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