Sr Software Engineer - Storybook

The role

You will join the Storybook maintainers team to contribute to the codebase and design APIs. You will collaborate in the open by triaging issues, reviewing pull requests, and supporting contributors.

What you will do

• Contribute to the Storybook codebase as a core maintainer
• Design, develop, and refine Storybook APIs
• Collaborate in the open by triaging issues, reviewing pull requests, supporting contributors, and writing or reviewing RFCs
• Understand how developers use Storybook and create educational content
• Engage with the wider developer community to share work and ideas
• Work with other engineering teams at Chromatic to ensure feature continuity
• Participate in the engineering team's support rotation

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building for the web using JavaScript/TypeScript or other relevant languages
• Experience building tooling, frameworks, or libraries for other developers
• Solid understanding of the backend of frontend
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• Interest in engaging with developer communities
• Ability to form your own opinions, explain your reasoning, but also open to changing your mind

Nice to have

• Shared knowledge publicly through talks, writing, videos, or other channels
• Deep expertise beyond React for the web (e.g. Web Components, Angular, or React Native)
• Experimented with agentic tools and workflows
• Experience with Storybook or Chromatic
• Worked effectively in a distributed, remote-first team environment
• Taken a non-traditional path into software

About the company

Chromatic is a platform used by thousands of front-end teams worldwide. Their mission is to safeguard all of the world's pixels.