Senior Frontend Engineer

With Confluent, organisations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better everyday – we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organisation to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day.

One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform.

Data Connects Us.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer interested in building engaging and insightful products for managing and visualising large scale distributed real-time data streams. Data flow is central to how companies operate, and we aim to make that experience intuitive and attractive. As a Front-End Software Engineer, you will be responsible for creating new visualisations and interfaces that scale with Apache Kafka.

More about our stack:

• Our Cloud UI stack is written in Typescript and built based on React.
• The UI connects to multiple REST and GraphQL APIs.
• We unit test our code with Jest.
• We deploy the UI to production every day, with the ability to test each and every commit in production (even PRs) before it goes live.
• Feature flags unblock us from coordinating releases with backend teams
• Bots keep all of our dependencies up to date

What You Will Do:

• As a Senior Frontend Engineer, 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.
  You will:
• 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.

What You Will Bring:

• Graduated from a Bachelor’s or Master’s program in Computer Science, or a related technical field with 3+ years of experience.
• 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

Come As You Are

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