Senior Software Engineer

Are you our “TYPE”?

Monotype (Global) 

Named "One of the Most Innovative Companies in Design" by Fast Company, Monotype brings brands to life through type and technology that consumers engage with every day.  

The company's rich legacy includes a library that can be traced back hundreds of years, featuring famed typefaces like Helvetica, Futura, Times New Roman and more.

Monotype also provides a first-of-its-kind service that makes fonts more accessible for creative professionals to discover, license, and use in our increasingly digital world. We work with the biggest global brands, and with individual creatives, offering a wide set of solutions that make it easier for them to do what they do best: design beautiful brand experiences. 

Monotype Solutions India 

Monotype Solutions India is a strategic center of excellence for Monotype and is a certified Great Place to Work® three years in a row. The focus of this fast-growing center spans Product Development, Product Management, Experience Design, User Research, Market Intelligence, Research in areas of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning, Innovation, Customer Success, Enterprise Business Solutions, and Sales. 

Headquartered in the Boston area of the United States and with offices across 4 continents, Monotype is the world’s leading company in fonts. It’s a trusted partner to the world’s top brands and was named “One of the Most Innovative Companies in Design” by Fast Company. 

Monotype brings brands to life through the type and technology that consumers engage with every day. The company's rich legacy includes a library that can be traced back hundreds of years, featuring famed typefaces like Helvetica, Futura, Times New Roman, and more. Monotype also provides a first-of-its-kind service that makes fonts more accessible for creative professionals to discover, license, and use in our increasingly digital world. We work with the biggest global brands, and with individual creatives, offering a wide set of solutions that make it easier for them to do what they do best: design beautiful brand experiences. 

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be working on various projects and services that power the core e-commerce engines at Monotype. You will be writing good quality code, review code, design scalable and optimized solutions and drive critical projects to success.

 What you’ll be doing:

• Work in a small scrum team to design and build high-quality customer-facing software.
• Building modular and reusable components and libraries.
• Optimizing application for performance.
• Code profiling.
• Implementing automated testing integrated into development and maintenance workflows.
• Write unit, functional and end-to-end tests using karma, mocha, chai & sinon.
• Create Documentation (HLD/LLD/ sequence diagrams) to support new feature architecture.
• Gain product knowledge by successfully developing features for our applications.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders, peers, and others.
• Strive for continuous improvement in customer experience, tools & processes.
• Co-ordinate with UI UX to convert designs into seamless functional UIs.
• Implement and maintain code architecture and build scalable and robust applications.
• Code using the best coding best practices.
• Code reviews.

What we’re looking for:

• 4-6 years of development experience developing complex, scalable web-based applications with 1+ years desired in eCommerce/Digital Commerce domain.
• Min 4+ years of hands-on experience in any front-end framework like Vue.js/React/AngularJS.
• Experience with building SPA.
• Experience in developing applications with responsive design principles, mobile first development and cross browser compatible development.
• Experience in working with Databases like MySQL, MongoDB.
• Experience with GIT, bitbucket, or GitHub and the Features branching workflow.
• Experienced in test driven development, continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• Experience with Microservice architecture will be a plus.
• Experience with Amazon AWS services (S3, EC2 etc.) will be a plus.
• Proficiency with modern development tools, like Babel and Webpack. 
• Experienced with working in Agile development environment.
• Awesome written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work in a global and distributed environment with agility to hold communication with different audiences.
• Ability to write efficient, secure, well-documented, and clean JavaScript code.
• Excellent problem solving and debugging skills.
• Exposure to Docker or Kubernetes will be a plus.
• Strong computer science fundamentals in algorithms and data structure.

Monotype is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

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