Staff Frontend Engineer - Interactive Maps
About The Position
We are actively looking for a founding member of a new team to build a collaborative, offline-first visual floor plan editor. This is a next-generation tool for planning and managing the security infrastructure of complex multi-building campuses Join a small dynamic team that loves learning and applying the newest frontend technologies to create a beautiful realtime editing surface. You will work closely with Product and Design to develop great user experiences -- not just features -- and to help build and scale a web-based platform that will support a suite of connected devices for enterprise customers at scale.
Requirements
- 7+ years of industry software engineering experience
- Degree in Computer Science (or Engineering equivalent)
- Mastery of JavaScript: Scoping, closures, contexts, prototypes, classes, etc.
- React expertise, including common state and data libraries (React Query, Zustand, etc.)
- Thorough understanding of coordinate system conversions and projections
- Eye for design, product details, and polish
Nice To Haves
- Working knowledge of at least one server-side framework and one database system
- Experience with real-time collaborative applications
- Understanding of offline-first architectures (CRDTs, Operational Transforms).
- Experience with 2D graphics libraries (Canvas API, Konva.js, or similar)
- WebGL or GPU programming experience
- GIS experience (PostGIS, QGIS, ArcGIS, or web mapping libraries)
Responsibilities
- Build a sync engine for an offline-first collaborative editor
- Implement a visually engaging editor for our security deployment experts, aiding them in planning, deploying, and configuring Verkada’s wide range of hardware product offerings.
- Develop visually engaging power-user features, such as camera line-of-sight analysis and AI feature range tooling, useful for analyzing deployments in complex, real-world environments
- Experiment with cutting-edge browser features to find their opportunities and limitations
- Mentor teammates on frontend best practices and architectural patterns
Benefits
- Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
- Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
- Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
- Expanded mental health support
- Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
- Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
- Professional development stipend
- Fertility Stipend
- Wellness/fitness benefits
- Healthy lunches provided daily
- Commuter benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
