Company Description
Avochato is an AI-based messaging platform designed to help businesses improve customer communication through a unified inbox supporting SMS, MMS, RCS, Live Chat, and Voice. Over the past decade, Avochato has grown into a reliable and profitable platform that powers customer interactions and generates revenue for organizations of all sizes. With a commitment to solving high-impact problems and delivering seamless products across desktop and mobile, Avochato ensures businesses can communicate with their customers in the most rewarding ways.
Avochato is a flat organization made up of builders who care deeply about product quality, customer satisfaction, and moving fast without breaking trust. It’s easy to launch something, but it’s much harder to make it last. That’s the work the team enjoys and the mindset that unifies the entire team. You'll join a high-autonomy team where engineers ship real features weekly for customers that perform millions of actions per day. If you want ownership, impact, and interesting technical challenges (real-time messaging, AI features, complex UX), we encourage you to apply for this role.
Role Description
This is a full-time remote role for a Frontend Developer located in the United States. As a React/TypeScript specialist, this role also serves as a technical resource for frontend best practices, code review standards, and provides the opportunity to mentor and shape frontend practices.
The Frontend Developer will be responsible for designing, building, and improving user interfaces that enhance the customer experience. Key responsibilities include collaborating in cross-functional project teams, maintaining responsive web designs, debugging issues, ensuring high performance of web applications, and staying up-to-date with industry trends and technologies.
Qualifications
- 4+ years of professional experience with React with production TypeScript usage
- Strong experience with React state management (Redux, Zustand, or similar)
- Strong experience writing frontend tests (Jest, Vitest, Testing Library, or similar)
- Experience with WebSockets
- Familiarity with build tooling (Webpack, Vite)
- Experience working with RESTful APIs and async data patterns
- Experience in a Rails-backed environment is a plus
- Experience using AWS services (S3, CloudFront) and web accessibility standards (WCAG) are a plus
Benefits
Base salary ~$150k, equity incentive plan, medical/vision/dental benefits for employees and dependents, 401k with Guideline, 15 PTO days + 12 company holidays per year
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