Chromatic - Sr Software Engineer - Storybook
Requirements
• 5+ years of experience building for the web using JavaScript/TypeScript or other relevant languages • Experience building tooling, frameworks, or libraries for other developers (internal tools count too!) • Solid understanding of “the backend of frontend” — you know how modern web frameworks and build tools work under the hood • Strong written and verbal communication skills in English; comfortable working asynchronously across a distributed team • Interest in engaging with developer communities to understand their needs, exchange ideas, and share your work • Ability to form your own opinions, explain your reasoning, but also open to changing your mind as you learn • Genuine enthusiasm for making developers' lives easier and helping shape where frontend development is headed • Prior open-source maintainer experience is not required. • WE’D BE EXTRA EXCITED IF YOU… • Have shared knowledge publicly through talks, writing, videos, or other channels • Have deep expertise beyond React for the web (e.g. Web Components, Angular, or React Native), with an opinion of what good developer experience looks like in that ecosystem • Have experimented with agentic tools and workflows, and are excited about how AI is changing software development • Have experience with Storybook or Chromatic • Have worked effectively in a distributed, remote-first team environment • Have taken a non-traditional path into software and can bring insight from experiences beyond engineering • We understand that even the best candidates might not meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re excited about Storybook’s mission and want to grow your skills, we’d love to hear from you. • Salary range: US $161,900 - 197,700 + equity. Learn more about our compensation philosophy here https://www.notion.so/Chromatic-s-Compensation-Philosophy-bc0b2c567f6e44ac8d2ada3003404a93?pvs=4. Visit our careers page https://www.chromatic.com/company/careers for a list of our other benefits and a peek into life at Chromatic.
Responsibilities
• Contribute to the Storybook codebase as a core maintainer • Design, develop, and refine Storybook APIs that serve our end users, addon authors, and core maintainers (us!) • Collaborate in the open by triaging issues, reviewing pull requests, supporting contributors, and writing or reviewing RFCs • Understand how developers use Storybook, and create educational content that helps users get the most value out of features we ship • Engage with the wider developer community to share our work and ideas, with opportunities to speak at conferences if interested • Work with other engineering teams at Chromatic to ensure feature continuity between Chromatic and Storybook • Participate in the engineering team's support rotation, which is primarily within business hours
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