Senior Software Engineer (Frontend)
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As part of this mission, we are building a new SaaS publishing platform called Posit Connect Cloud. Connect Cloud delivers value to individual data scientists and businesses by empowering them to quickly publish and share their work, including custom reports and interactive applications. These artifacts, written in Python, R, Quarto, and more, allow data scientists to tell stories with data and solve real-world problems. Connect Cloud is a cloud-based platform that solves the challenges of putting code into production and securely sharing it without setting up and managing dedicated infrastructure.
About the role :
We are seeking a product-minded front-end developer with expertise in using the React framework to build SaaS applications. In addition to committing code, we are looking for a candidate motivated to engage with our UI / UX designers, product managers, and quality engineers to deliver a thoughtful and highly usable product that delights our users. In this position, you’ll primarily work with TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, React UI framework, and the Redux state management library to build features in Connect Cloud. Our technology stack also includes Python, Go, and Rust; however, knowledge of them is not required.
What you’ll own :
- Developing, testing, reviewing, deploying, and maintaining code in the Connect Cloud web application
- Marshaling specific features from design to implementation to deployment and beyond
- Ensuring continued product quality through thoughtful design, continuous integration, and test automation
What you’ll help with :
Collaborating iteratively with other engineers, designers, and product managers to understand and revise upcoming features and other improvements during backlog refinement and design sessionsSuggesting process improvements to enhance the effectiveness of the teamMentoring and collaborating with other engineersSupporting our users via support tickets and through our community forumsWhat you’ll teach :
Building web applications using modern JavaScript / TypScript design patterns and best practicesWorking with modern JavaScript / TypeScript frameworksWriting clean, modular, accessible, and highly testable codeWhat you’ll learn :
An appreciation for data science workflows and some of the tools and methodologies used by data scientists.The Posit products and how they empower our customers to do effective data science, along with open-source data science tools like R and Python open-source tools Posit builds to empower data scientists.About you :
You have 5 years of professional software development experience working with TypeScript / JavaScript and the React framework.You are collaborative, an effective communicator, action-oriented, and invested in learning.You are user-focused and driven by our mission to facilitate data science for everyone.You share our commitment to building great software by striving for elegant design, clean and well-tested code, and delightful user experiences.You excel at breaking down complex problems into bite-size tasks and driving them to completion.You love to learn and help others succeed through code review and other forms of mentorship.You are humble, pragmatic, deliberate, and have a keen empathy for your co-workers and users.Within one month, you will…
Get to know everyone on the team and become familiar with our current development practicesFollow our onboarding guide and suggest improvementsWork on your first feature and deploy your changes to productionWithin three months, you will…
Participate in feature planning and design sessionsComplete code reviews providing meaningful feedback to your peersLeave each part of the product that you work on in better shape than how you found itJoin in supporting customers with another member of the team leading the effortUnderstand our automated test systems and be able to investigate failuresWithin twelve months, you will…
Plan features and drive their developmentShare your expertise and insights with team members, contributing to the collective knowledge and skill set of the teamBe able to point to parts of the products that you have significantly contributed toJ-18808-Ljbffr
