Full-Time Staff Frontend Software Engineer
A Place For Mom is hiring a remote Full-Time Staff Frontend Software Engineer. The career level for this job opening is Expert and is accepting New York, NY based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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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 front-end 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 hands-on, outcome-oriented, innovative, technology-focused 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 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 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
Required Skills and Competencies:
10+ years of engineering experience working with a Javascript/Typescript, React, and NodeJS tech stack
In-depth knowledge of front-end technologies, frameworks, and best practices.
Experience with leveraging relational databases in a scalable, efficient way; GQL and MongoDB preferred.
Thrives in a fast-paced environment while architecting dependable solutions that scale effectively
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
Takes ownership of keeping technical documentation for their features up to date.