About the opportunity
Contentful is a modern content platform for businesses. Our mission is to enable digital teams across the world to quickly build the best digital experiences imaginable. We are only scratching the surface of our full potential and we have an impressive amount of work ahead of us. This means you have an incredible opportunity to join us on this journey and do meaningful, challenging work whilst growing your career.
In this role, you will collaborate with product owners, designers, and other developers to build a best-in-class experience for our Contentful Studio customers. You will help enhance a unique frontend architecture that enables the rapid creation of frontend experiences for non technical users by designing and delivering performant, maintainable, and scalable features and services. Work across multiple teams helping guide technical excellence and facilitating the growth and development of engineers.
What to expect?
- Work with multiple teams on complex challenges that enable our customer developers to build experience creation platforms that empower their digital teams.
- Collaborate closely with other product, design, and engineering leaders to shape the long term vision of the Studio product
- Collaborate with other teams across Contentful to connect Contentful Studio to the entire product experience
- Collaborate with other staff engineers on high level architecture topics and technical alignment
- Leverage AI to rapidly innovate and deliver near infinite personalization
- Mentor and guide engineers to build quality, scalable code
- Develop innovative new features for Contentful Studio
- Build a deep understanding of our customers to improve onboarding, adoption, and usage of Studio
What do you need to be successful?
- Strong product oriented thinking, able to keep the customer and the business needs in mind while thinking deeply about implementation.
- Demonstrated expertise in JavaScript application development, including asynchronous programming, Promises, ES6, and TypeScript
- Strong understanding of React is ideal and knowledge of additional frameworks is desirable.
- Knowledge of functional programming principles is a plus
- Have strong teamwork skills, open to diverse opinions, and can give reasons for your technical decisions.
- Excellent English communication skills, both verbal and written
Nice to have:
- Experience with no-code page building products
- Experience with content management systems or organizations with sophisticated content operations
What’s in it for you?
- Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences
- Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
- Comprehensive healthcare package covering 100% of monthly health premiums for employees and 85% of costs for your dependents.
- Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
- We value Work-Life balance and You Time! A generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, sick days, compassion days for loss, education days, and volunteer days
- Company paid parental leave to care for and focus on your growing family
- Use your personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
- Enjoy a full range of virtual and in-person events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties
- An annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical, financial, or emotional health
- A monthly communication stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
- New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees. Get the gear you need to work at your best.
This role will need to be conducted in a state in which we are currently registered to do business.
The application deadline has been extended to 1/21/25
Colorado Salary Statement: The salary range displayed is specifically for those potential hires who will work or reside in the state of Colorado if selected for the role. Any offered salary is determined based on internal equity, internal salary ranges, market data/ranges, applicant's skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications (e.g. JD/technology), for example.
Colorado Salary Range: $212,000 - $232,000
[This position is eligible for equity awards in accordance with the terms of Contentful’s equity plans.]
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Who are we?
Contentful is the intelligent composable content platform that unlocks all of an organization’s digital content to deliver impactful customer experiences, making content a strategic business asset. The Contentful Platform, Contentful Studio, and the Contentful Ecosystem combine the flexibility of composable content with the intelligence of AI, empowering digital teams to drive business momentum through collaboration, speed, and scale. Contentful powers innovative content experiences across brands, regions, and channels for organizations around the world, including nearly 30% of the Fortune 500. Nearly 800 people from more than 70 nations contribute their energy and creativity to Contentful, working from hubs in Berlin, Denver and distributed around the world.
Everyone is welcome here!
“Everyone is welcome here” is a celebrated component of our culture. At Contentful, we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical [dis]ability, or length of time spent unemployed. We invite you to apply and join us!
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