At Primer, we build intelligent machines to help analysts, scientists, and other knowledge workers consume written information hyper-efficiently and focus their human intelligence on the most critical world problems to empower our customers by vastly reducing the cost of curiosity.
Primer is at the forefront of the natural language processing revolution. Our artificial intelligence platform can read millions of documents per hour, extracting information and updating a knowledge graph of billions of entities. It is capable of answering natural language questions and generating the first draft of natural language analytical reports in seconds.
Our customers include some of the world’s largest corporations, financial institutions, and government agencies. You can learn more about Primer's technology and the problems we solve here, on our blog.
Primer is proud to be recognized on two of Built In’s “2022 Best Places to Work” lists. For the second year in a row, Primer is one of the “Best Midsize Companies to Work For” – ranked No. 21 out of 100 companies – and this year we’ve also been named an overall “Best Places to Work” in the San Francisco Bay Area.
As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you are an experienced engineer who delivers immersive user experiences over complex, nuanced data. Does this sound like you? Guided by data, you use user behavior to optimize engagement. Seamless human-computer interaction, novel visualizations, and intuitive UX inspire you. You are passionate about engineering excellence and fostering innovation while remaining practical on implementation.
What You'll Do
- Collaborate with design and product to build functional and delightful product experiences
- Helping grow our team - through conducting interviews & helping more junior members of the team grow.
- Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
- Invest in making our UI platform scalable and our teams productive
- Work on improving our design system and React component library
- Conducting code reviews
- Improve or redefine our Frontend development process to continue delivering high quality products.
- Improving performance of page rendering and our React components
Who You Are
- 3+ years of professional frontend development
- Strong knowledge of core Javascript, Typescript, React, Redux, and HTML5 / CSS3
- Experience building and deploying a single-page application for public use
- Proficiency writing unit and integration tests
- Comfortable communicating with customers and conducting user interviews in order to get product feedback
- Ability to turn vague product requirements into actionable tasks
- Strong understanding of UX and Design fundamentals
- Experience with data visualizations
- Comfort with differing opinions and bias towards deciding and learning
- Note: We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of the qualifications above.
What We Offer
- We are a series C funded company with investors from Lux Capital, Amplify Partners, Addition Capital, Bloomberg Beta, and others.
- We are intentional around building a diverse and inclusive team of subject matter experts to better advocate for the needs of our users.
- We care a lot about our work and about the well being of our team. We encourage everyone to work at a sustainable pace and have an unlimited vacation policy for team members to utilize, Wellness Days and 100% paid leave for parents of growing families.
- We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits. This includes full medical, dental, and vision coverage, fertility benefits through Carrot, mental health coverage on demand with Ginger, 401(k) (US employees), remote work stipends, monthly internet allowance, and dedicated days off annually for you to volunteer for a cause that your heart calls you toward.
