Senior Software Engineer, Web (Remote)

About the position

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with product, design, and development teams both inside and outside the company to plan new features.
• Designing the API and data models provided by our SDKs that clients will use to extend their own apps and websites.
• Developing tailored experiences to help clients engage with their users and meet their goals.
• Optimizing our SDKs along many axes: developer-friendliness, customizability, and reliability.
• Supporting clients as they integrate our SDKs into their own products with documentation, sample code, and correspondence.
• Automating tools and processes that our team can rely on for daily development, testing, and release management.
• Monitoring crash logs and developer feedback to identify points of improvement in the products.
• Conducting code reviews and maintaining high standards for code quality and efficiency
• Leading and managing multiple web development projects concurrently, ensuring timely and quality delivery
• Supervising the work of junior web engineers to ensure quality standards are met.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience in similar roles.
• Considerable experience building developer-facing products like software libraries, frameworks, and SDKs. Experience working at a SaaS company is appreciated.
• Expert proficiency in JavaScript and HTML/CSS development. Experience with React JS, React Native, and Lit.js is a plus.
• Deep understanding of how to interact with HTTP APIs. Nuanced opinions on API design such as RPC vs. REST are a plus.
• Have complementary skills such as API design, data modeling, and technical writing.
• Outstanding collaboration and communication skills. Ability to effectively collaborate with a distributed team.
• Understand and practice agile development methodology.
• Working knowledge of User Experience design best practices. Ability to translate user stories into visual designs, mockups and wireframes using industry-standard tools, like In Vision.
• Strong skills with HTML5, CSS, Basic JS, Responsive Bootstrap, Material Design, LESS/ SASS.
• Experience with relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and/or NoSQL databases would be an added advantage.
• Experience with modern software engineering workflows and tools (e.g. Agile, JIRA, Git, CI/CD, Amazon Web Services, ELK, APM).
• Extremely passionate about code reviews, engineering best practices and mentoring/coaching the developers to make them successful.
• Ability to incorporate new technologies as required.
• Ability to work in global cross-office teams
• Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communications.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and programming ability Initiative and drive to contribute

Nice-to-haves

• We’re the kind of team that can banter one minute and crunch the next, and we’d love for you to be able to do the same.
• You’ve got a strong sense of personal drive and will move forward at full force when tasked to solve something tricky.
• In the same breath, you believe your team is your most valuable resource, and you won’t hesitate to collaborate with them.
• You take the initiative and don’t assume someone else will move things along, you pull in new work, and you follow up on work in progress.
• An unbridled passion for learning.
• You’re a techie at heart, and you want to talk to us about the latest stuff you saw on Product Hunt, Gamasutra, Medium, ESPN, etc.
• You’re not afraid of an open, candid, and respectful work environment
• You've built apps that involve real-time communications
• Excellent organizational and task management skills
• Operational (DevOps) experience by managing deployments, QA, scripting in AWS.
• Strong experience with unit testing and test-driven development.
• Enjoy creating solid, clean code so you won’t hate yourself the next time you visit it
• Takes regular direction from more senior-level staff.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Employee Assist Programs
• An opportunity to work in a variety of domains
• Exposure to diverse clients and projects
• Be part of a rapidly expanding, dynamic, and committed company
• Work in a global and intellectually stimulating environment

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