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JavaScript Typescript EngineerFingerprint • Chicago, Illinois, USA
JavaScript Typescript Engineer

JavaScript Typescript Engineer

Fingerprint • Chicago, Illinois, USA
7 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Know what really happens under the hood of a browser

Can you walk through the JavaScript event loop in your sleep Do you understand the browser rendering pipeline better than most devs understand their own code Have you ever built your own JavaScript framework just for fun Love open source Then you might be exactly who were looking for.

This isnt your run-of-the-mill TypeScript / JavaScript role. Were not building landing pages or dashboards here. This is backend-level engineering that happens to run in the most hostile performance-constrained environment there is : the browser.

Were hiring a TypeScript / JavaScript Engineer to own our browser-side JavaScript agent CDN integrations and performance-critical SDKs used by millions every day. Youll be crafting tamper-resistant lightning-fast code that survives in the wildpushed to its limits by scale security threats and the quirks of every browser under the sun.

If you want to push the boundaries of whats possible in the browser apply today! But first check out our open-source projects to see if you can picture yourself here.

What Youll Do

  • Build and maintain our browser-side TypeScript / JavaScript agent used for device identification bot detection and risk assessment
  • Engineer for stealth resilience and performanceminimizing footprint resisting detection and maintaining compatibility across browsers
  • Optimize for both code size and execution speed in complex adversarial environments
  • Stay ahead of browser changes plugin behaviors and fingerprinting techniques
  • Collaborate with backend security and data science teams to align signal capture with detection logic
  • Write comprehensive tests and contribute to CI pipelines that ensure functionality across a wide range of platforms and devices
  • Contribute to a widely-used open-source project with 24K GitHub stars and 25B monthly usages

What You Bring

  • 6-10 years of JavaScript and TypeScript experience especially in browser environments
  • Deep understanding of browser APIs DOM behavior timing attacks and anti-debugging techniques
  • Experience building libraries or SDKs especially for production or developer-facing use cases
  • Strong frontend experience (80%) with backend familiarity (20%)
  • Proficiency with build tools like Webpack Rollup Esbuild including code obfuscation and minification
  • Experience with modern testing frameworks such as Jasmine Jest or similar
  • Familiarity with security principles privacy best practices and adversarial engineering
  • Comfortable working in fast-paced environments without rigid specifications
  • Strong sense of ownership and autonomy; you enjoy working independently and solving hard technical problems
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills in English
  • Nice to Have

  • Experience in complex domains like media gamedev or security or on technically demanding browser projects (e.g. Google Docs Figma Miro or 3D browser games)
  • Contributions to open-source projects especially in the JavaScript / TypeScript ecosystem
  • Experience with WebAssembly browser extensions or remote debugging
  • Familiarity with AWS services such as Lambda CloudFront and DynamoDB
  • Browser automation or scraping experience
  • For US-based employees the cash compensation range for this role is $159000 $170000. We set standard ranges for all US roles based on function level and geographic location benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. To comply with local legislation and provide greater transparency to candidates we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. However these ranges are specific to the hiring location and may differ within or outside the US. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including geographic location as well as candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.

    Key Skills

    Arm,CSS,C / C++,HTML5,React,Redux,Node.js,Angular,Ember.js,JavaScript,backbone.js,Operating Systems

    Employment Type : Full Time

    Experience : years

    Vacancy : 1

    Monthly Salary Salary : 159000 - 170000

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