Senior Front End Software Engineer - Application Development
New York, NYFull-TimeSeniorSoftware Engineering
Core Responsiblities
- Leading and mentoring within our community of engineers and building shared frontend tooling to enable teams across Foundry.
- Architecting and building for high-scale data intensive APIs (example).
- Developing interactive workflow UIs.
- Building products which aim to make technical concepts accessible for non-technical users.
- Creating low-code/no-code WYSIWYG tools, which enable application builders within Foundry to build products for their users.
- Building the user experience for our next generation of pro-code tools to enable developers to build on top of Foundry.
- Engaging with signal directly from our forward deployed engineers and deployment strategists to rapidly evolve our product to meet real world requirements.
Technologies We Use
- Typescript, React, and GQL are central to our frontend development.
- Blueprint as a re-usable front end component library.
- A combination of open-source and internal technologies that suit the problems at hand.
- Industry-standard build tooling, including Webpack, GitHub, and CircleCI.
What We Value
- Passion for improving user workflows and building user interfaces that enable users to tackle their problems, while still maintaining engineering quality.
- Ability to work collaboratively in teams of technical and non-technical individuals and understand how technical decisions impact the people who will use what you're building.
- Skill and comfort working in a constantly evolving environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users.
- Experience brainstorming and iterating with product designers.
- Experience building high-quality software in a fast-paced CI/CD development environment.
- Proven ability to learn continuously, work independently, and make decisions with minimal supervision.
- Ability to learn new technology and concepts, even without in-depth experience.
- Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance is beneficial, but not necessary.
What We Require
- 4+ years of frontend software engineering experience.
- Experience crafting complex user experiences (UX) with a strong intuition for good design and usability.
- Experience working with design systems such as Blueprint, Material-UI, or similar.
- Strong frontend coding skills used to write clean, effective code, regardless of framework, and existing proficiency in JavaScript and understanding of how web technologies work.
- Familiarity with data structures, loading patterns, frontend frameworks, and other technical tools and concepts.
- Proficiency with programming languages such as JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
