Overview

At Apartment Therapy Media, our mission is to help people make their homes more beautiful, organized and healthy. As a Senior Front-End Web Engineer, you’ll join our Product team in shipping software that delivers an excellent experience to our 29+ million monthly readers on Apartment Therapy and Kitchn. We have a wonderful, supportive team and you can read more about our process, culture, and tech stack on our team README.

Our ideal candidate is excited to step into a new codebase and hit the ground running. With plenty of support, you’re comfortable proposing high-level code decisions with solid reasoning to back them up. The fundamentals of the client-side web (JavaScript, CSS, HTML) are second nature and you’re hard-wired to consider the long-term maintainability and scalability of your work. You’ve shipped a variety of projects into a production environment and have a deep understanding of how modern web applications live in the wild.

Leadership is practiced at all levels of the company, and we look to our Senior members to help drive decisions while keeping a holistic view of our projects and processes in mind. We value learning on our mixed-experience team and you’ll share knowledge and mentor others through thoughtful code reviews, pair programming, and the example you set.

Our team (and much of the company) works remotely. We all wear many hats and maintain a collaborative and encouraging environment. You may work remotely or in our New York City office, however you must be able to work effectively with a remote team and coworkers. Excellent communication skills and self-direction are critical for success.

Additional “nice to haves”:

  • Experience working with a distributed team
  • Experience in data-driven development
  • Familiarity with React and Ruby/Rails
  • Experience in small team (startup/lean/agile) environments
  • Experience mentoring less-experienced engineers
  • Interest in home design, cooking and other lifestyle areas our publications cover

Here’s what current Product team members say about the job:

  • “Smart, action-oriented people; everyone always willing to jump in to help; flat team culture”
  • “Working from home is obviously great”
  • “I feel like our priorities stay pretty solid once they’re defined and on the roadmap; I’ve definitely worked places where they shift so much nobody ever knows what’s going on — definitely a bad thing about other places”
  • “Diverse team is really cool too — everyone comes from a very interesting background”
  • “Coming into this team I was used to using what was easy. Seems like the whole team here jumps on board with what makes the most and best sense.”
  • “We’ve also hired people who have a ‘bias for action.’ Like get your hands dirty from day 1 and shine.”

when applying, in addition to a cover letter, résumé and links to relevant additional work (portfolios, blog, GitHub profile, Twitter account, etc), please include:

  • something you dislike about your favorite web framework
  • a link to a post from one of our sites you find compelling, stating briefly why
  • any questions you have for us

We prefer candidates who can keep standard US timezone working hours. No recruiters or agencies.

About Apartment Therapy

Our Mission: Helping people make their homes more beautiful, organized and healthy by connecting them to a wealth of resources, ideas and community online.

Ten years ago, Maxwell Ryan was known as the "apartment therapist," traveling by scooter to his clients' homes to help them make their spaces beautiful, organized and healthy. Part interior designer, part life coach, his touchpoints were simplicity, comfort, and lack of clutter.

Unlike typical designers, Maxwell didn't want to dictate where things should go or how people should live, he wanted to arm them with the tools and the confidence to decide for themselves. Shortly after launching in 2001, he started a weekly email where he would send tips and recommendations to an increasing distribution list, combining education with decoration.

In April 2004, Maxwell, with his brother Oliver Ryan, launched Apartment Therapy, turning the weekly email into a daily blog post, reviewing stores, offering tips, posting photos of Maxwell's design projects and answering readers' questions.

As the readership grew, so did Apartment Therapy. Between 2004 and 2008, the site launched sister sites devoted to cooking, family, technology and green decorating. Maxwell hired full-time staff, and an expanding pool of contributors.

In early 2012, Apartment Therapy relaunched in order to better serve its readers. Because family, technology and green living are integral parts of modern life, these separate sites are now absorbed into a more comprehensive site that focuses on the two centers of life at home, living and food. Streamlined and easier to navigate, Apartment Therapy continues to offer its readers different ways to build their own "good life," based not just on style but on lifestyle.