Quick Summary
Work Location: Remote | Employment Type: Full-time
About Sched
Sched empowers thousands of events globally, including professional development programs, academic conferences, industry gatherings, and community meetups. Our platform facilitates connection, learning, and progress.
We are a profitable, established SaaS company with a robust user base and production systems. The features you develop will directly impact organizers and attendees worldwide.
We are seeking a Full Stack Engineer with strong frontend expertise. While this is a full-stack position, a significant focus will be on enhancing user-facing systems to improve usability, performance, and reliability across our web application.
The Role
This is a hands-on engineering position, focusing on React frontend systems and PHP backend services. You will directly contribute to our production codebase by:
- Building and refining user-facing features utilized daily by thousands.
- Maintaining and improving core frontend architecture.
- Contributing to backend systems and APIs that support the product.
- Debugging production issues across the entire stack.
- Thoughtfully refactoring and modernizing legacy codebases over time.
We value candidates who demonstrate a strong commitment to frontend craftsmanship, including semantic HTML, clean CSS, maintainable JavaScript, performance optimization, and overall usability, beyond just framework knowledge.
What You'll Do
Frontend Development (Primary Focus)
- Build and maintain frontend features using React and modern JavaScript.
- Write clean, semantic, and accessible HTML.
- Implement responsive, maintainable CSS layouts.
- Improve performance, rendering efficiency, and browser compatibility.
- Debug production UI issues and edge cases.
- Ensure consistency across various devices and screen sizes.
Backend Development
- Develop and modify backend services using PHP and REST APIs.
- Work with MySQL-backed systems and production data.
- Implement features end-to-end across both frontend and backend.
- Maintain stability and continuity of core functionality.
Maintenance & Modernization
- Refactor legacy code to enhance readability and maintainability.
- Improve error handling and system reliability.
- Strengthen performance in critical areas.
- Continuously improve the codebase.
Collaboration
- Work closely with product and engineering leadership.
- Participate in architecture and implementation discussions.
- Contribute to technical direction and best practices.
What We're Looking For
Required Qualifications:
- 3–7 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, and modern JavaScript.
- Extensive experience building production applications with React.
- Strong understanding of browser behavior, rendering, and frontend performance.
- Experience debugging production systems.
- Experience with REST APIs and relational databases (e.g., MySQL).
- Ability to work within and enhance existing systems.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working on SaaS products.
- Experience maintaining or refactoring legacy codebases.
- Familiarity with AWS or other cloud infrastructure.
- Experience collaborating closely with UX/UI designers.
- Familiarity with accessibility best practices.
What Success Looks Like
Within 30 Days:
- Comfortable navigating the frontend codebase.
- Shipping small fixes and improvements.
Within 90 Days:
- Independently implementing and shipping frontend features.
- Confident in debugging production UI issues.
Within 6 Months:
- Contributing confidently across both frontend and backend.
- Improving the stability, performance, and maintainability of core systems.
What We Offer
- Anticipated On-Target Earnings (OTE): $85,000 – $135,000 USD (base + discretionary bonus).
- 100% remote team (30 people, no corporate office).
- Comprehensive benefits: Health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
- 401(k) with company match.
- 20 days Paid Time Off (PTO).
- Education and fitness benefits.
- Discretionary annual bonus.
- Team offsites (Schedcations) in international locations like Morocco, Japan, Brazil, and Colombia, fully covered by Sched.