Working at SambaNova

This role presents a unique opportunity to shape the future of AI and the value it can unlock across every aspect of an organization’s business and operations. It is a high-visibility position that will shape the future of the AI platform by delivering best-in-class software solutions within SambaStudio and Previews. 

SambaNova Suite™ is enabling organisation's and enterprises to achieve the transformative promise of these new AI technologies with a fully integrated hardware-software system that delivers innovation across the full AI stack, including the most accurate generative AI models, optimized for enterprise and government. This creates the AI backbone for the next 10 years and beyond.

SambaNova Previews showcases the opportunity to experience how SambaNova enables outcomes for customers' business, by building state of the art web applications using generative AI. 

SambaNova is hiring a Senior Principal Front End Engineer for SambaStudio & other upcoming products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development and implementation of complex frontend solutions. Drive UI and UX strategy across products. Provide technical guidance and mentorship to frontend developers. 
• Contribute to and improve existing systems with architectural and technological decisions for the team. Achieve deep knowledge of our product architecture, usage patterns, and real-world deployment scenarios to develop an understanding of which solutions will bring value to our customers.
• Collaborate with a global team of business stakeholders, architects, UX designers, engineers & product managers to design scalable and maintainable frontend architectures. Evaluate new technologies and frameworks to improve frontend development processes based on ReactJs, TypeScript, FastAPI and other platform services.
• Establish clean and testable coding standards, best practices, and code review processes to maintain high-quality codebases. Ensure adherence to industry standards and guidelines.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations to enhance responsiveness of web applications. Pay extra attention to non-functional requirements (performance, scalability, reliability, and high availability). Conduct performance profiling and analysis to improve user experience.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives for frontend development processes and tools. Implement automation, CI/CD pipelines and monitoring solutions to streamline development workflows.
• Investigate and resolve complex technical issues related to frontend systems. Perform root cause analysis and implement effective solutions to prevent recurrence. 
• Create technical documentation, guidelines and tutorials to share knowledge and promote best practices among team members. Conduct training sessions and workshops on frontend technologies and methodologies.
• Work in an agile environment and follow scrum practices to deliver high-quality software in a timely manner.

Basic Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience focused on cloud based application & platform development.
• Extensive experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React, Angular or Vue.js. 
• Expertise in Typescript, CSS, HTML, NodeJS.
• Experience in writing tests on the React testing library and implementing E2E tests.
• Strong understanding of web technologies, browser compatibility and responsive design principles.
• Deep knowledge of frontend build tools, package managers and version control systems e.g. webpack, npm, Git.

Additional Required Qualifications

• Proven track record of leading frontend engineering projects and delivering high quality software products. 
• Experience of building and managing UI frameworks and components for multiple products.
• Good understanding of latest advances in User Experience designing.
• Experience of building REST API servers using Python/Go/NodeJS.
• Understanding of DB schema designing & ORMs.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and problem solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Open source contribution and evangelism of UI technical stack.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is preferred.
• Good to have knowledge of building DevOps pipelines using Jenkins.
• Good understanding of algorithms and OOPS concepts, as well as proficiency in one or more of the following programming languages: Python, GoLang and Javascript.
• Experience with one or more cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and familiarity with related services and tools.
• Demonstrated passion for learning new technologies and staying updated with industry trends.

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities effectively.
• A team player who demonstrates humility while being action-oriented with a focus on speed and results
• Ability to thrive in a no-boundaries culture and make an impact on innovation.

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