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 Apply tot his job