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The role involves developing and maintaining high-impact applications using React and TypeScript, collaborating with product and design teams, optimizing performance, mentoring engineers, and supporting backend services for AccuWeather's Developer Platform.
AccuWeather is seeking an experienced Senior Front-End Developer to help shape and scale our Developer Platform. This role is ideal for an engineer who is passionate about developer experience and building elegant, high-impact interfaces. You will implement intuitive, performant user experiences using React and TypeScript, while partnering across product and design to turn complex requirements into polished workflows. Leveraging your full-stack expertise, you will also contribute to backend services and automation that generate, validate, and deliver OpenAPI documentation—powering personalized, reliable, and best-in-class experiences for developers.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop and maintain high-impact applications for AccuWeather’s Developer Platform using React, TypeScript, and modern web technologies.
- Build intuitive and responsive UI components using modern JavaScript frameworks.
- Translate complex product and business requirements into scalable, maintainable, and well-architected front-end solutions.
- Integrate frontend applications with commerce platforms, APIs, payment gateways, and third-party services
- Work with RESTful APIs and OpenAPI (Swagger) specifications to deliver a first-class developer experience.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to deliver cohesive, end-to-end platform features.
- Contribute to and support backend services and integrations that power portal functionality, API access, and personalization.
- Optimize performance, reliability, and scalability across the full stack, from front-end rendering to API documentation delivery.
- Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and architectural decisions, helping evolve platform standards and best practices.
- Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code, with a strong focus on long-term sustainability.
- Mentor junior engineers and drive technical excellence.
QUALIFICATIONS
- BS/BA in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 5+ years of professional frontend development experience, with deep expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Extensive experience building complex, production-grade applications using React and modern React patterns (hooks, context, performance optimization.)
- Solid front-end fundamentals, including HTML, CSS, responsive design, and component-driven UI development.
- Proven experience with e-commerce concepts such as product catalogs, checkout flows, payments, promotions, and personalization.
- Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger specifications, and API lifecycle management.
- Experience developing in Linux-based environments, including WSL, Docker, and command-line tooling.
- Familiarity working with API documentation tools such as Redocly, Swagger UI, or similar platforms.
- Working knowledge of C# and the .NET ecosystem, particularly when integrating with internal API services.
- Experience using Git, CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms, and modern API gateway and developer-platform tools such as Zuplo or Zudoku.
- Knowledge of API security best practices, including rate limiting, API keys, OAuth 2.0, and JWT.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in an agile, fast-paced environment.
About AccuWeather
AccuWeather, recognized and documented as the most accurate and most used source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world, has saved over 12,000 lives, prevented injury to over 100,000 people, and saved companies tens of billions of dollars through better planning and decision-making. Billions of people around the world rely on AccuWeather’s proven Superior Accuracy™ across our consumer digital platforms. AccuWeather.com is the #1 weather destination and one of the top 100 most-visited websites in the world, and our award-winning AccuWeather app delivers detailed real-time forecasts to millions of smartphones.
AccuWeather forecasts also appear on digital signage, in 700 newspapers, are heard on over 400 radio stations, and viewed on 100 television stations. The AccuWeather Network and AccuWeather NOW® reach an audience of over 125 million on cable and streaming platforms including DirecTV, Charter Communications - Spectrum, Verizon, Philo, Frndly TV, Comcast’s Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Stream, Roku, Xumo, Rockbot, LG, and Amazon Freevee. AccuWeather For Business serves more than half of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands of other businesses and government agencies globally. Dr. Joel Myers, Founder and Executive Chairman, established AccuWeather in 1962 and is considered the “father of modern commercial meteorology.” Myers, a leading creative thinker and visionary, has been called “the most accurate man in weather” by The New York Times and has been recognized as one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur’s Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs.
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
AccuWeather is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. AccuWeather is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
Top Skills
.Net
Ci/Cd
CSS
Docker
Git
HTML
JavaScript
Openapi
React
Restful Apis
Typescript
Zudoku
Zuplo
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