Frontend Developer — CSS & Animation
About the Role
Linear is hiring a Frontend Developer with deep CSS and animation expertise to help us build the most polished project management tool in the industry. You'll own the visual quality bar — from micro-interactions to page transitions to our CSS design token system.
If you've spent time deeply studying how Apple, Linear, and Stripe implement their animations, and you can articulate why they feel the way they do, this role is for you.
What you'll do:
- Implement complex CSS animations and transitions with GPU compositing in mind - Audit and improve the performance of existing animations - Build and maintain our design token pipeline - Work closely with designers to push the visual quality of every feature
Requirements
- 4+ years of frontend experience with a CSS focus
- Expert knowledge of @keyframes, transition, and the Web Animations API
- Understanding of browser rendering pipeline — layout, paint, composite
- Experience profiling and fixing animation performance issues in DevTools
- React and TypeScript proficiency
Nice to Have
- Experience with GSAP, Framer Motion, or Motion One
- Three.js or WebGL experience
- Strong opinion on easing curves and timing
Skills
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