Lead Software Engineer, UX Engineering

About the position

Cisco ThousandEyes is a Digital Experience Assurance platform that empowers organizations to deliver flawless digital experiences across every network – even the ones they don’t own. Powered by AI and an unmatched set of cloud, internet and enterprise network telemetry data, ThousandEyes enables IT teams to proactively detect, diagnose, and remediate issues – before they impact end-user experiences. ThousandEyes is deeply integrated across the entire Cisco technology portfolio and beyond, helping customers deploy at scale while also delivering AI-powered assurance insights within Cisco’s leading Networking, Security, Collaboration, and Observability portfolios.

Responsibilities

• Improving the core frontend technology that enables the ThousandEyes engineering organization to scale horizontally, primarily our design system, component library, and the developer tooling surrounding them
• Developing the set of data visualizations used across our application to bring clarity to complex datasets
• Influencing across other teams to improve frontend code quality, accessibility, usability, performance, and visual consistency across our product
• Growing your knowledge of modern frontend development, while helping to set and communicate standards used across the company
• Exploring new technologies that will benefit our workflow and contributing architectural/technical decisions
• Collaborating closely with UX designers, using two-way feedback to take proposed design changes from ideas to beloved experiences
• Mentoring and guiding other engineers on the team to help them maximize their professional potential

Requirements

• Expertise with at least one modern frontend framework/library (e.g. Vue, React, Angular, etc)
• Confidence with frontend languages and standard processes across TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Capability leading technical projects supported by 2+ engineers, including architecture/design, project breakdown and estimation, mentorship, and code review
• Comfort in fast-paced, dynamic environments and a willingness to challenge the status quo
• Understanding of how to build performant, testable, maintainable, and well-documented code
• A keen eye for detail, knowledge of standard web design principles, and empathy for the user
• Proficient at collaborating and communicating across Product, Design, and Engineering organizations
• Passion for sharing your ideas, bringing others along, and caring for your teammates

Benefits

• Quality medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• Numerous wellbeing offerings
• Up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, including one floating holiday
• Vacation time off accrual for non-exempt new hires
• Flexible Vacation Time Off policy for exempt new hires
• Sick Time Off policy with 80 hours provided on hire date and annually
• Paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues
• Additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community