We are on a mission to spark connections and bring people together.

Dcard is a social media platform service devoted to creating a safe and free environment for ever-flowing ideas and extraordinary stories. Garnering the trust of the youth generation, our service attracts millions of active users and up to 18 million unique visitors per month, making a substantial influence and achieving high penetration amongst the youth in Taiwan, but our ambitions do not stop here.

As a strong and emerging international company, we are on a mission to spark connections and bring people together. across the globe. Continuing our success in the Taiwan market, we are now expanding our scale to Hong Kong, Japan, and the APAC & LATAM market.

As a Senior Frontend Developer at Dcard, you will collaborate closely with brilliant designers, product managers and developers to build products that matter and create tools that accelerate growth. Join our team of talented developers to build the social network of the next generation. We code in a fresh monolithic repository and ship code every few hours, and most importantly, we're never afraid of trying new and bold approaches to conquer challenges.

If you are ready to spark in your career, join us in creating the experience that connects people all around the world!

About our Frontend Team

• You’ll be in a team with 10+ frontend developers and 2+ architects, where you’ll be focusing on frontend development.
• You’ll also join a cross-functional team (which is called delivery team in Dcard), working closely with product managers, engineers, and designers to develop either social media, e-commerce, advertising and global products.
• We have frontend meetings once a week, and study sessions every two weeks. Also, we have seminars for different engineering topics once a month, topics can differ from frontend, backend, mobile, machine learning..etc.

Our Tech Stack

• We mainly use TypeScript, React, Next.js and Redux
• We integrate and develop all internal and external websites with the use of yarn-based monorepo 👉 https://medium.com/dcardlab/3354ff78a0cf (written in Chinese)
• We use our in-house WYSIWYG Editor as few editors support Chinese input at a high standard 👉 https://medium.com/dcardlab/cdd0e65ed178 (written in Chinese)

Daily challenges

• You’ll seek the best implementation of each component with a balance between design, experience and efficiency.
• You’ll optimize Web Vitals of the overall website having multi-language and multi-region in mind.
• You’ll focus on optimizing developer experience and framework by evaluating and introducing new tech stacks if needed.

Our Workflow

• GitHub flow
• One mentor & one co-mentor for every new member
• Your PR needs to be reviewed before you merge. After each PR is created, CI will automatically create the testing environment for PR (including staging, production, storybook…)
• Release 3-4 times per day on average, but not on Fridays

Fun Facts

• We set a “Release” button on Slack.
• We designed our internal meal order system and massage order system by ourselves and launched in the team.

In this role, you will

• Design and develop compelling and performant web applications that deliver diverse content worldwide.
• Architect stable, maintainable and reusable front-end systems with clean, modular patterns.
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues.
• Continuously track, learn and apply the latest industry best practices, design patterns, tools and technologies.