The modern world runs on the Internet, and the Internet cannot exist without its underlying infrastructure. Cisco Meraki makes setting up, managing, and maintaining that infrastructure easier than it has ever been before. Meraki enables connectivity everywhere from neighborhood cafes to education institutions to global hospitality groups operating thousands of sites. At Meraki, we know that technology can connect, empower, and drive us. Our mission is to simplify technology so our customers can focus on what's most meaningful to them: their students, patients, customers, and businesses. We’re making networking easier, faster, and smarter with technology that simply works.

As a Lead Front End Engineer at Meraki, you will help design and build the UI for Meraki's Dashboard - the window to the entire Meraki experience. From Dashboard, our customers can control their entire Meraki stack: switches, access points, firewalls, client devices, cameras, and more. You will work across the stack with other developers, UX designers, and product management to build and improve the Dashboard web application. Meraki engineers put the customer experience first, own projects from beginning to end, and are empowered to make impactful decisions.

Meraki believes that the quality of our product is dependent on the quality of our engineers. We place a high value on nurturing the growth and development of everyone on our team. We foster an open and supportive workplace where everybody is given the opportunity to succeed.

What you will do:

• Craft data rich visualizations to intuitively display the performance of different networks and applications
• Work on initiatives to provide a delightful network management experience
• Collaborate with UX designers and analyze user feedback to identify frictional workflows, then build tools to streamline those processes
• Improve performance and efficiency of our front end, allowing us to handle increasingly large datasets with minimal delay
• Build internal frameworks and refine front end infrastructure to augment developer productivity
• Build web pages that uses Meraki RESTful API endpoints
• Perform in-depth code reviews
• Provide technical leadership to junior team members

You are an ideal candidate if you:

• Have 7+years of experience in designing, developing and testing enterprise class web applications
• 3+years of experience in object oriented programming with JavaScript, HTML/CSS/SASS, webpack, Node.js, React/Redux or similar libraries and test frameworks such as Mocha
• Take complete ownership from conception to production release by leveraging your ability to influence, facilitate, and work collaboratively across teams
• Would thrive in a small engineering team and are excited to solve open-ended problems
• Are passionate about what you do and ignite people around you

Bonus points for:

• Experience with Ruby on Rails, rspec and Postgres
• Experience with Git and Gerrit
• Experience with designing and developing RESTful API endpoints
• Experience or willingness to work in an agile environment (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)
• Have working knowledge of network protocols used on both local and wide-area networks

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

At Cisco Meraki, we’re challenging the status quo with the power of diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. When we connect different perspectives, we can imagine new possibilities, inspire innovation, and release the full potential of our people. We’re building an employee experience that includes appreciation, belonging, growth, and purpose for everyone.