Hybrid Frontend Engineer

at Confluent

• Job title: Frontend Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Babel, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Flux, JavaScript, Python, React, Webpack, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Toronto, Canada

About the role

• Frontend Engineer building engaging and insightful products for managing large scale data streams at Confluent. Collaborating with teams to deliver intuitive client-side web applications.

Responsibilities

• In this position, you will build engaging and insightful products for managing and visualizing large scale distributed data streams, make data flow intuitive and attractive, and build client-side web applications for data-intensive applications.
• Build new features using advanced knowledge based on user requirements and make revisions to features based on feedback
• Build platform as a service (PaaS) product
• Take user requirements and vet the application program interface (API) contracts and user interface (UI) wireframes against them.
• Work with backend software engineers to understand the API contract and ensure the user experience is not degraded due to performance constraints from the backend APIs.
• Work with designers to understand and build components styling, from interactions to specification.
• Work with product managers to build a user experience.
• Build out a test plan and get sign-off from all stakeholders once development and testing has been completed.
• Write, monitor, and manage large scale system deployments.
• Triage Cloud incidents and monitor errors from Confluent's Javascript monitoring service.
• Triage bugs and troubleshoot production issues.
• Participate in the code review processes.
• Write tooling to improve day-to-day workflows.

Requirements

• Graduated from a Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD program in Computer Science, or a related technical field
• Good knowledge of data structures and algorithms and proficiency in at least one of these languages: JavaScript, C, C++, Python, Go
• Self-motivated and able to drive projects with mentorship and project requirements
• Smart, humble, and empathetic and ability to work effectively in teams and strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ready to make an IMPACT -- Driven and excited about the challenges of a fast-paced, innovative, and quickly growing software development environment
• Interested in building large scale distributed systems
• Experience building web applications for applications
• Experience with JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Experience with React/Flux, modern js tooling (Gulp/Grunt)/Webpack/Babel
• Strong foundation in algorithms and application design

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Paid time off
• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development