Full-Time Staff Software Engineer

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 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.