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You will join the team on a mission to reimagine mylifeinabook.com with an entirely new product proposition. You will be thinking of and building the best customer interactions, motion and typography needed for people to easily capture their most precious memories that can be shared with the closest people in their life.\nAs an expert frontend engineer with great visual and storytelling instincts, you are equally comfortable building out storyboards and tools as you are collaborating with designers and editors to refine ideas. You will be a bridge between the creative vision and functional code.\nYou'll be working within a small, focused team with a fair amount of autonomy. We're not looking for someone to execute a perfect brief. We're looking for someone with the judgment to help us figure out the right thing to build, and then build it well.\nThe initial contract is three months, but it could grow as the work and our working relationship develop. 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