Staff Frontend Engineer

Aerospike

11d

About The Position

At Aerospike, we dream big. Our focus is helping companies tackle seemingly insurmountable problems and doing what’s never been done before. That is why we developed the world's leading real-time data platform that powers mission-critical applications at the world's most innovative, category-disrupting companies. Aerospike companies have deployed extreme-scale real-time applications to fight fraud, dramatically increase shopping cart size, enable global digital payments, and deliver hyper-personalized user experiences to tens of millions of customers. Customers like Airtel, Experian, Nielsen, PayPal, Snap, Verizon Media, and Wayfair rely on Aerospike as the data foundation for the future to help them act in the microsecond moments that matter. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Aerospike has a global presence with offices in London, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv. As a Staff Frontend Engineer at the Aerospike Cloud team, your role is pivotal in developing the Aerospike Cloud Platform - the company's Multi-Cloud, Multi-Tenant Aerospike Platform. Your contributions will directly impact our ability to deliver innovative solutions to our global customer base.

Requirements

Proficient knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, CSS
Deep understanding of modern web practices and the associated technologies (JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Angular, etc.)
Experience with at least one of the major public cloud providers: AWS, Google, Azure
Experience with API development frameworks (Swagger or other frameworks)
Technical knowledge and understanding of techniques and standards for authentication, authorization, and encryption
Experience converting UI mockups to usable web pages
5-10 years of experience developing web applications
Experience shipping UI software in production environments
Experience leading development for a UI team
Experience with modern observability platforms (Datadog or similar)

Nice To Haves

Experience with developing, deploying, and maintaining distributed services with containers (Docker) & orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS, GKE)
Experience with Git and CI/CD pipeline engines (GithubActions, Jenkins, TravisCI, etc.)
Familiarity with one or more common backend languages (Go, Python, Java)
Experience with NoSQL database development

Responsibilities

Communicate regularly with stakeholders, project managers, quality assurance teams, and other developers regarding progress on a long-term technology roadmap
Convert business requirements into actionable engineering plans and work items
Produce quality code, raising the bar for team performance and speed
Write code and tests, build prototypes, resolve issues, and profile and analyze bottlenecks
Optimize front-end services for performance, reliability, security and scalability
Integrate front-end service deliverables from other engineering teams into a single user-experience
Provide technical leadership and direction to other front-end developers
Partner with back-end developers to develop services and APIs
Develop automated unit and integration tests to ensure business needs are met
Participate in an on-call rotation to quickly resolve technical issues impacting customers
Develop product analytics designed to understand the user experience
Mentor and develop front-end engineering talent