Job Description

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