Frontend Engineer

What We Offer

• $80K – $113K gross annual salary.
• Remote-first: 19+ years of remote and async work; we hire globally, with at least 3 hours of overlap with Pacific Time required.
• 34-39 days each year (depending on location, including holidays), parental leave (3-6 months), health insurance, laptop reimbursement.
• Optional relocation support to Portugal after a probation period.
• Business impact: Work in a small, dedicated team, collaborating directly with startup founders and CTOs. Instead of closing tickets, you shape products, solve real user problems, and create measurable business value.
• Architectural impact: You lead technical decisions, especially when working on greenfield projects, proposing stack choices, shaping architecture, and solving real problems alongside founders.
• Transparent finances and revenue sharing.
• Open source culture (We created PostCSS, Autoprefixer, Browserslist, Nanostores, and many other popular projects). Support for conference speaking and professional growth.
• Most of our team can code, including founders, managers, and designers.

Who Fits This Position

1. You aren’t just a JS developer, but also love and respect CSS, UX, and design. You build polished, thoughtful UI.
2. You are driven to understand the “why” behind your work. For you, engineering is about helping people and businesses succeed. You understand the processes of a modern startup.
3. You’ve worked inside at least one English-speaking company or product team, and you know how they plan, ship, and communicate.
4. You’ve been a “manager of one” for a client or stakeholder: clarifying requirements, pushing back when needed, driving scope from fuzzy concept to shippable reality. You’re a master of your own time with proactive communication and a deep appreciation for clear, timely written updates.
5. You don’t just follow tutorials or hype; you learn your tools very deeply and enjoy understanding how frameworks, LLMs, and the browser actually work.
6. You have strong written and spoken English and feel comfortable understanding and communicating nuances in client calls. Russian is a big plus for internal communication.

How to Apply

Don’t send us a standard CV.

Send us an email to obey-frontend@evilmartians.com with your full name as the email subject.

In your email:

1. UI work you’re most proud of. We’re looking for examples of meticulous polish (“every little detail”), crazy optimizations, or cases where you went beyond the requirements. Explain the small details and why you’re proud of them. Illustrate them with a link to the UI, or at least a video or screenshots.
2. Your past experience, highlight your experience working with English-speaking teams.
3. Your consultancy story: share a story about running a startup, making business decisions, or communicating among different stakeholders. For example, describe a time you solved a communication problem inside a company.
4. Which apps with good and non-standard UI design are role models for you, and why?
5. What are you excited about in the near future of software? For example, a new CSS spec, better tooling integration, etc. What gets you excited in tech?
6. Tell us how you use LLMs and ML, and how you do control LLMs.
7. Your location. You must work in a territory that is not currently under any sanctions by the USA.
8. Links to open source work, talks, workshops, meetups, or writing—these give you bonus points in the process.
9. Tell us about yourself: what your main area of interest in software is, and how you became a frontend developer. Add your GitHub user name even if you have empty account (we may need it later).

Put some effort into writing this email. Include as many concrete facts and details as you can. We are looking for people who can work with text and it is your first task.

The Hiring Process

1. Your cover letter review.
2. Short interview to check your English and communication style.
3. Test project focused on real-world product work (we check both communication and technical skills here).
4. Zoom interview with the CEO of Evil Martians.

We always respond with detailed feedback so you see where to grow.

What You’ll Do

• Explain your decisions and architecture—clearly and often—to engineers and non-engineers alike.
• Be the “manager of one”: clarify your tasks, set expectations, provide transparency with clear communication and accountability, and bring your best work and opinions proactively.
• Ask for help without waiting for a “better moment”.
• Build UI, frontend, and backend with TypeScript, and set up build and quality control tools. The choice of a tool always depends on a task, but we often use React. Knowledge of the server-side (Node.js) is a big plus.
• Code alone or in a team; in many cases, one or two of our Frontend Engineers work on a project.
• Work with different code bases: refactor old code as well as build greenfield projects.
• Be passionate about understanding the product and developing empathy for people using it, and work side by side with product owners and designers.
• Communicate with clients and teams that work in the following time zones for at least a few hours per working day: PST (US West Coast, GMT-8), EST (US East Coast, GMT-5), CET (European Time).