Staff Software Engineer - Frontend

Responsibilities

We are looking for a talented Staff Software Engineer who will utilize a modern technology stack to update and maintain our lead platform experiences. This role entails being a seasoned engineer with deep frontend technology and leadership experience.

This position reports to the Director of Engineering - Lead Platform. You will leverage your expertise in technology to meticulously select the latest technologies, architectural frameworks, and design patterns for implementation. Your role will involve providing visionary leadership and architectural direction to a dedicated team of engineers tasked with developing lead platform technologies that support our business.

Who you are:

The ideal candidate is a hands-on, outcome-oriented, technology-focused engineer with extensive experience acting as a strategic leader - helping to drive designing, building, and supporting modern front end technologies. Additionally, they demonstrate a strong partnership with product teams, ensuring alignment between technological innovation and product development goals.

What you will do:

• You will use your deep UI engineering and creative skills to take an influential role in iterating and continuously deploying new features, functionality, and products to our users
• Collaborate with leads to design and architect cloud native and service-oriented 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 implementations 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

Requirements

Required Skills and Competencies:

• 10+ years of engineering experience
• Thrives in fast-paced environments while architecting dependable solutions that scale effectively
• In-depth knowledge of front-end technologies, frameworks, and best practices.
• Role model and champion modern ways-of-working 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 problem-solving skills (e.g. debugging, analysis and instrumentation) in a context beyond code they've written