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title: 'Senior Frontend Engineer - Remote Europe at Reedsy'
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# Senior Frontend Engineer - Remote Europe at Reedsy

- **Company:** Reedsy
- **Location:** United Kingdom
- **Compensation:** £60k–£90k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-08-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/reedsy/742cc4da-d230-4707-835f-58bebe8e4e5e

## Job description

We welcome applicants based anywhere in Europe.

## About Reedsy

We’re here to give authors the tools and resources they need to create beautiful books. Our marketplace gathers the industry's best publishing professionals — the likes of Neil Gaiman's editor, Nora Roberts' book marketer, and GRRM’s cover designer. We’ve grown to a community of 5,000,000 authors, and transformed the way people write and publish their book. Want to hop on board and help us get to our next destination? Cool, keep reading!

## Responsibilities

- Develop high quality, responsive, mobile-friendly Vue.js apps
- Create amazing interactions and visualizations
- Work closely with our Back-end engineers and our UI designers
- Help bridge the gap between server and client (consuming RESTful APIs)
- Write unit and functional tests

## Requirements

- Professional experience with Vue.js
- A firm understanding of how to write maintainable and scalable CSS with Sass.
- Strong JavaScript fundamentals
- Experience with component-based front-end UI libraries.
- Understanding of MVC pattern and other object oriented concepts
- Experience with version control (Git and GitHub)
- Familiarity with agile development processes
- Exceptional communication skills

Bonus Points

- A good dose of ambition, as well as a great sense of humour
- You strive for pixel perfection
- Experience optimizing JavaScript applications
- UX skills
- Knowledge of Node.js, TypeScript, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Desktop Framework (e.g Electron), iOS
- Fluent in multiple languages. Reedsy welcomes applicants of all cultures and backgrounds.

## Benefits

- Work from home;
- Paid paternal and maternal leave;
- Annual team retreat

Salary range: £60k – £90k

## About Reedsy

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Reedsy operates an online marketplace and suite of software tools connecting authors with freelance publishing professionals for editing, design, marketing, ghostwriting, and translation services.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped / Grant-funded; last known funding was a $1.2M grant in 2016)
- **Headquarters**: London, England, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Ricardo Fayet, Matt Herron, Vincent Durand

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Book and Periodical Publishing / Marketplace for Professional Services
- **Target customers**: B2C (primarily self-publishing and indie authors), B2B (publishers and publishing professionals seeking project work)
- **Mission or purpose**: To give authors the tools and community they need to write, publish, and market high-quality books, while creating economic opportunities for the world’s best publishing professionals.

## Products & Services
- **[Reedsy Marketplace](https://reedsy.com/)**: A curated platform where authors can browse profiles, request quotes, and hire vetted freelance editors, designers, marketers, ghostwriters, translators, and web designers. Only the top ~1% of applicants are accepted as professionals.
- **[Reedsy Book Editor](https://reedsy.com/write)** (free tool): A browser-based writing and editing app designed for book-length manuscripts.
- **[Reedsy Learning](https://blog.reedsy.com/learning/)**: Free, high-quality online courses and webinars for authors covering craft, publishing, and marketing topics.
- **[Reedsy Discovery](https://reedsy.com/discovery)**: A review platform that connects indie authors with early readers and book reviewers.
- **[Reedsy Prompts](https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/)**: A community writing prompt tool and short story competition hub.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company; no known recent funding round setting a valuation; last funding was a $1.2M grant in 2016)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue estimated in the range of $5M–$25M (per LinkedIn company data); community of over **5 million authors** and publishing professionals.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors include Horizon 2020 (EU grant), DN Capital, Seedcamp, Kima Ventures, and Benjamin Yoskovitz.
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Headcount grew **14.9% YoY** to **371 employees** (per LinkedIn, as of mid-2025).
    - Operates in **33 countries**, with major hubs in the US (40% of staff), UK (13%), Canada, Spain, and Portugal.
    - LinkedIn followers exceed **96,000**, up ~6.8% year-over-year.
    - Revenue range of $5M–$25M for a fully remote, relatively lean lean marketplace places them in a healthy, profitable-looking growth stage for a private company.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Curated, high-quality talent pool**: Accepts only ~1% of freelance applicants, ensuring a high bar for quality comparable to top publishing houses.
- **Full tool ecosystem**: Unlike simple directories, Reedsy provides proprietary tools (writing, collaboration, file sharing, payments, project protection) that keep authors and professionals inside the platform.
- **Strong brand and community trust**: With millions of authors and thousands of professionals, the marketplace has significant network effects, making it harder for new entrants to compete.
- **Remote-native culture**: Fully distributed from the start, with a deep understanding of how to build and scale remote creative teams.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding the marketplace** to new professional categories (e.g., ghostwriting, marketing) and to more international markets (33+ countries).
- **Deepening author education** via Reedsy Learning courses and Discovery reviews to fuel author self-sufficiency and community engagement.
- **Refining AI/automation** tools to assist authors while protecting the value of human professionals (the company is cautious about full automation in favor of human creative quality).

## Why Work Here
- **Full remote forever**: Reedsy is a fully distributed company with a team of around 50 core employees (plus a global network of freelancers). Team members work from 15+ countries.
- **Flexible lifestyle**: Co-founders have publicly embraced location-independent work (e.g., co-founder Matt spending months living and working from the Alps).
- **Diverse, global team**: Recruits talent from top publishers (Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Macmillan) and freelancers globally.
- **High employee satisfaction**: Employer rating of **4.1/5** on LinkedIn across categories including Work-Life (4.1), Culture (4.0), Career Opportunities (4.2), and Compensation (3.9).
- **Flat, autonomous culture**: Small core team allows for significant ownership and impact. Roles span design, editorial, marketing, customer experience, and engineering.

## Sources
1. [Reedsy.com](https://reedsy.com/)
2. [LinkedIn - Reedsy Company Page](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/reedsy)
3. [CB Insights - Reedsy Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/reedsy)
4. [Reedsy Careers on Ashby](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/reedsy)
5. [Reedsy Careers on Workable](https://apply.workable.com/reedsy/?lng=en)
6. [Starter Story - How Reedsy Started](https://www.starterstory.com/book-publishing-services-marketplace)

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