Principal Frontend Engineer

Feathr•Gainesville, FL

5d•Remote

About The Position

Feathr's Marketing SaaS platform is critical to the value we deliver to our clients. Feathr’s Principal Engineers help us grow and maintain the technical components that allow us to meet our diverse customer base's advertising, marketing, and web analytics needs. A Principal Engineer at Feathr has a demonstrated interest and proficiency in web development. You will work under the direction of the Associate Director of Product Engineering on frontend software development projects. Engineers at Feathr own their code from planning to maintenance to retirement - you will work with internal and external stakeholders to develop requirements and design technical solutions, collaborate with your engineering colleagues to implement those solutions, deploy and monitor your changes in production, and address issues as they are identified.

Requirements

6+ years of experience in software development, with a strong focus on SaaS products.
Expertise in designing, building, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems.
Professional experience owning a process that included shipping a complicated piece of software to real users.
Expertise with React and TypeScript.
Demonstrated focus on developing and maintaining security and compliance with enterprise data concerns.
Experience in writing automated unit tests for your code.
Planning and executing an integration with an API layer.
Knowledge of REST/CRUD API development.
Ability to maintain and scale containerized applications.
Ability to optimize data modeling for constantly growing business needs.
Experience with self-hosted Drone CI/CD.
Curiosity and enthusiasm for all aspects of web development.
Service-oriented team player who is here to achieve success for Feathr as well as themselves.
Pragmatic and customer-oriented. You are building software to help customers, not for the sake of building software.
Comfortable adapting to quickly changing conditions. You might be working on one project but need to context switch to another unexpectedly during a critical outage.
Careful, detail-oriented approach to building software - ask questions first and write code later.
Comfortable breaking down technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
Your code solves immediate problems while building a sustainable system that lasts into the future.
Understand how to ingest and transform event streams from a variety of sources.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Storybook for component development and documentation.

Responsibilities

Assist with the mentoring and training of developers.
Review and approve code written by colleagues.
Solve technical problems and document their solutions.
Plan and iterate over the product development lifecycle.
Work alongside other Product Team engineers to design and develop features.
Collaborate closely with designers to implement and refine frontend UI/UX.
Break down complex technical challenges into manageable work components, ensuring clear deliverables.
Receive feedback on your code and features and iterate.
Collaborate with members of other departments to ensure technical solutions meet the company's business interests.
Ensure the integrity, availability, and confidentiality of Feathr’s data and operations.