Magnet Forensics - Senior Frontend Engineer

• Frontend depth. This is the core of the role: • Strong JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, and comfortable building without a framework. That means a real understanding of the browser itself: the DOM, the event loop, rendering, and the network • Experience improving a mature production frontend incrementally, without stopping to rewrite it • Frontend architecture: state management, component design, and module boundaries • Performance work: profiling load time and runtime behavior, and fixing what you find • Frontend testing at the unit, integration, and end-to-end levels, with good judgment about which tests are worth writing • Real-time UI patterns such as WebSockets or server-sent events • Web security fundamentals, including XSS prevention and safe handling of untrusted input • Python. The templates live in our Python application, so you'll be in Python code regularly. You should be comfortable reading, changing, and testing production Python, including Jinja (or similar) templates and the endpoints the UI depends on. • Instrumentation. You've designed product analytics event schemas that product managers could use, and you understand what the frontend has to get right for that data to be trustworthy. • Constrained environments. Our software runs on custom hardware installed on-premises at customer sites, often on locked-down networks. The UI can't count on a fast or open internet connection, so you should be comfortable building for that: keeping pages light, not depending on outside resources to load or work, and handling slow or missing connections gracefully. • 6+ years of professional engineering experience, most of it on production web frontends. • A track record of setting frontend direction for a team: choosing patterns, writing them down, and getting others to adopt them. • Experience working directly with product managers on scope, priorities, and trade-offs. • Strong with git and code review. • Clear written communication, since you'll be explaining frontend decisions to engineers who don't specialize in frontend. • Experience building or maintaining a component library or design system alongside product designers. • Background in digital forensics, law enforcement, or security tooling. • At Magnet Forensics, we take a hybrid-flexible approach to support your productivity and work-life balance. If you’re within a comfortable travel distance to one of our offices, you’ll occasionally join us in person. How often you’ll come in depends on your department and team needs, typically ranging from weekly to monthly. These in-person moments help us build stronger connections, spark new ideas, and celebrate our successes together. Most days, you can choose what works best for you, while staying in tune with your team’s goals. • We’re excited to welcome you to our team and look forward to achieving great things together - both in the office and wherever you work best! • The Most Important Thing • We’re looking for candidates that can provide examples of how they have demonstrated Magnet CODE in their previous experiences: • CARE – We care about each other and our mission to make a difference in the world. • OWN – We are accountable for our results – while never forgetting to act with integrity, empathy, and respect. • DEDICATE – We put our heart and soul into meeting the needs of our customers and helping them serve the people they protect. • EVOLVE – We are constantly innovating and exploring new ways to work together to make an impact with our work. • Here at Magnet Forensics, we are committed to continuous learning and are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. This commitment will be reflected in our hiring processes and embedded in our values and how we treat one another. If you’re interested in this role, but do not meet all of the qualifications listed above, we encourage you to apply anyways.