Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

As a Software Engineer - Frontend on a feature team, you'll be responsible for building an intuitive, responsive product. Your work will help thousands of customers to monitor the health and performance of their systems, no matter the scale. In this capacity, you’ll use tools like React and Typescript to help streamline the flow of data from platform to user, enable seamless pivots from one view to the next, and build a powerful yet easy-to-use platform.

What it asks for · 8

• You have been designing and engineering UIs for several years
• You’re a master of the Javascript ecosystem and you’re aware of the latest trends with frontend technologies
• You know how to use design patterns to create simple and reusable components for complex UIs
• You are familiar with data structures and algorithms, profiling and optimization
• You value code simplicity, performance and details
• You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
• Bonus: you’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products

What the job covers

• Work closely with backend engineers, product managers and designers to inform/refine/validate design concepts
• Break down complex features into distributable engineering tasks and rollout plans
• Design and deliver features that have direct impact on thousands of users
• Experiment with and advocate for new systems, design patterns, and tooling
• Participate in hackathons, sync with other Front end engineers at the monthly demos meeting and yearly Front End summit
• Use and contribute to a best-in-class in-house design system
• Own meaningful parts of our service, improve performance and address scalability limits
• Work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment that values diversity of talent, excellence of product, and exciting engineering challenges at scale

Degree language

• You’re a master of the Javascript ecosystem and you’re aware of the latest trends with frontend technologies

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• design5×
• product5×
• build4×
• engineering4×
• engineers4×
• features4×
• frontend4×
• performance4×
• challenges3×
• complex3×
• data3×
• systems3×
• tools3×
• users3×
• value3×
• building2×

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