Senior Front-end Engineer - Greenfield Project
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Do you relish the opportunity to design, build and run mission-critical applications? Do you want to get the attention of hundreds of thousands of engineers and technology leaders around the globe 24/7 so they can fix problems? Yes? Then read on to find out more about what makes PagerDuty a great place to be an Engineer!
As a Senior Frontend Engineer at PagerDuty on our Frontend Platform team, you’ll be part of a team that’s intensely focused on scaling our frontend architecture and infrastructure so that we can provide a best in class web experience for our customers. We are focused on reducing the complexity of our architecture to allow engineers to streamline the process of changing or developing new features. Additionally, you will be working closely with Product and UX to create our design system and help deliver innovative product features.
How You Contribute to Our Vision: Key Responsibilities
- From day one, you’ll be designing, coding, testing and shipping frontend interfaces and libraries that ensure we deliver secure, highly reliable and scalable solutions to our customers.
- Since we own and operate what we build, you’ll collaborate closely with engineers across teams.
- You’ll be involved in mentoring and teaching frontend skills to other engineers at PagerDuty.
- Curating the frontend design system in a complex distributed system.
- Developing frontend architecture patterns that scale across the engineering organization and provide better user and developer experiences
- Writing unit and integrations tests
- Owning and shepherding projects that our team takes on
- Creating alignment among various stakeholders about a recommended technical direction
What You'll Bring
- Professional experience building web apps using a modern component based framework.
- Deep understanding of semantic HTML and client-side JavaScript.
- Knowledge about core parts of frontend engineering (state management, performance, accessibility, styling, infrastructure)
- Empathy - you can clearly communicate your thoughts and opinions to others and facilitate these technical discussions to a successful outcome.
- Commitment to ensuring our team works sustainably and inclusively. Read more about PagerDuty’s commitment to diversity & inclusion.
We’re Particularly Interested In People Who
- Have worked on a component library or design system before
- Have worked on distributed React apps
- Favor regular, incremental delivery over perfection.
- Strive for continuous learning and improvement for themselves and their teams.
- Are excited about ensuring that all of our systems scale smoothly.
Our Tech Stack
- React / Redux
- Legacy systems in EmberJS and Backbone
- Ruby on Rails
- Elixir
- Kafka
- SQL
PagerDuty offers:
- Competitive salaries and company equity
- Comprehensive benefits package including: medical, dental, and vision plans for you, your spouse and family
- Generous parental leave
- Paid vacation (3 weeks vacation your first year, 4 weeks afterwards) in addition to paid holidays and ample sick leave
- Opportunities to get involved in PagerDuty's Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and other diversity initiatives. ERGs are self-organized, employee-run communities focused on advancing a sense of belonging and inclusion for all - members, advocates, and allies.
- Paid employee volunteer time - 20 hours per year
- Bi-annual company wide hack weeks
PagerDuty is committed to creating a diverse environment and is an equal opportunity employer. PagerDuty does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, parental status, veteran status, or disability status.
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