Senior OSS Engineer – Storybook

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October 23

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SaaS • Productivity • Enterprise

Chromatic is a visual testing and review tool that helps ensure flawless user interfaces by scanning every possible UI state across different browsers. It is designed to catch visual and functional bugs before they reach users, streamlining team sign-offs and improving the development workflow. Chromatic integrates seamlessly with tools like Storybook, Playwright, and Cypress, providing comprehensive visual coverage for end-to-end tests. It allows teams to conduct visual and interaction tests, ensuring that appearance, layout, styles, and user interactions are functioning as expected. Chromatic is trusted by engineering teams to prevent bugs and regressions, offering a centralized workspace for managing UI components, tests, and documentation. It provides easy collaboration across teams with features like UI review and status syncing, enhancing efficiency and reducing the time needed to ship high-quality UIs.

11 - 50 employees

☁️ SaaS

⚡ Productivity

🏢 Enterprise

📋 Description

• Contribute to the Storybook codebase as a core maintainer • Design, develop, and refine Storybook APIs that serve our end users, addon authors, and core maintainers (us!) • Drive implementation of Storybook features and growth experiments • Collaborate in the open by triaging issues, reviewing pull requests, supporting contributors, and writing or reviewing RFCs • Work with the DX team to create detailed documentation and help content for end users • Work with other engineering teams at Chromatic to ensure feature continuity between Chromatic and Storybook • Participate in the engineering team's support rotation, which is primarily within business hours • Optionally, you will have opportunities to represent Storybook externally through conference talks, blog posts, or other channels

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building for the web using JavaScript/TypeScript or other relevant languages • Prior experience building or maintaining developer tools, frameworks, or libraries used by other developers • Solid understanding of how modern web frameworks and build tools (e.g. Next.js, Vite) work under the hood — you’ve built, debugged, or extended them to solve real-world problems • Strong written and verbal communication skills in English; comfortable working asynchronously across a distributed team • Comfortable engaging in open, constructive discussions in a collaborative, engineering-led culture • Interest in learning how large open-source projects operate, from release cycles to community feedback, and in growing your impact over time • Genuine enthusiasm for making developers' lives easier and helping shape where frontend development is headed. • Have experience running growth experiments designed to increase adoption, retention, and expansion • Have deep expertise with React Native or a non-React framework • Have experience with Storybook or Chromatic • Have worked effectively in a distributed, remote-first team environment • Have followed a non-traditional path into software and bring insight from experiences beyond engineering.

🏖️ Benefits

• equity