Staff Software Engineer - Frontend - Web Development

Responsibilities

We are looking for a talented Staff Software Engineer who will utilize a modern technology stack to update and maintain our public web site experiences across SEO and SEM channels. This role entails being a seasoned engineer with deep frontend technology and leadership experience.

This position reports to the Director of Engineering Web. You will leverage your expertise in frontend web technology to meticulously select the latest technologies architectural frameworks and design patterns for implementation. Your role will involve providing visionary leadership architectural direction and technical mentorship to a dedicated team of engineers tasked with developing and maintaining our web platform technologies that are the front door of our business.

Who you are:

The ideal candidate is a handson outcomeoriented innovative technologyfocused engineer with extensive experience acting as a strategic leader helping to drive designing building and supporting modern front end technologies. They demonstrate a strong partnership with product teams ensuring alignment between technological innovation and product development goals.  Additionally they have a passion for lifting up all the engineers on their team through mentoring and applying industry standards and best practices.

What you will do:

• Use deep UI engineering and creative skills to take an influential role in iterating and continuously deploying new features functionality and products to our users
• Collaboratively design and architect cloud native and serviceoriented UI components and applications
• Collaborate with team and peers to design complex applications peer review code and suggest optimization
• Enable continuous deployment by championing quality engineering practices: linting unit testing e2e testing pipeline automation
• Collaborate with and influence product teams to build and maintain design system standards processes and adoption
• Create reference material for the purpose of mentoring and leading more junior staff (when required)
• Help define engineering best practices and provide technical mentorship
• Investigate and resolve any production issues from end user (UI) to service layer and work to prevent them
• Work with project managers to ensure that all project deliverables are on time and high quality
• Mobile first site performance optimizations with a focus on core web vitals
• Passionately understand the user experience and create a beautiful web journey

Qualifications :

Required Skills and Competencies:

• 10 years ofengineering experience working with a Javascript/Typescript React and NodeJS tech stack
• Indepth knowledge of frontend technologies frameworks and best practices. 
• Experience with leveraging relational databases in a scalable efficient way; GQL and MongoDB preferred.
• Thrives in a fastpaced environment while architecting dependable solutions that scale effectively
• Role model and champion modern waysofworking such as Agile DevOps and related practices actively participate in an engineering community.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills ability to articulate a vision or concept in simple terms to a broad audience at every level.
• Helps enable and establish services and products to take advantage of changing industry trends and opportunities
• Is able to step back from a task and reassess size and complexity when appropriate
• Takes ownership of the quality of the solution or feature being implemented
• Demonstrates competent problemsolving skills (e.g. debugging analysis and instrumentation) in a context beyond code theyve written
• Takes ownership of keeping technical documentation for their features up to date.

Additional Information :

Compensation

• Base Salary: $160000 to $% Bonus
• Benefits:
  • 401(k) plus match
  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Paid Time Off

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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