Contract: Senior/Lead Front End Engineer

Upwork ($UPWK) is the world’s work marketplace. We serve everyone from one-person startups to over 30% of the Fortune 100 with a powerful, trust-driven platform that enables companies and talent to work together in new ways that unlock their potential.  

Last year, more than $3.8 billion of work was done through Upwork by skilled professionals who are gaining more control by finding work they are passionate about and innovating their careers.  

This is an engagement through Upwork’s Hybrid Workforce Solutions (HWS) Team. Our Hybrid Workforce Solutions Team is a global group of professionals that support Upwork’s business. Our HWS team members are located all over the world.

We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to build one of our most complicated website SPAs! You will work on sophisticated UI applications, such as recording candidate applications, messaging, and lots of real-time interactions, and resolving client needs to complete the hiring process.

We’re using Vue.js, Nuxt.js, Angular.js, Web Components, AWS, Docker, microservices, and Symfony to help build apps that millions of freelancers use every day.

This is a contract position with the potential for contract renewal based on project needs and accomplishment toward deliverables.

Work/Project Scope:

• Collaborate with project stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver high-quality solutions.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable and robust server-side logic, databases, and APIs according to project requirements.  
• Utilize programming languages such as Typescript or Javascript for frontend development.
• Develop, test, and maintain high-quality front-end code for web applications.
• Utilize modern frameworks like Vue.js, Nuxt, React.js, or Angular for efficient development.
• Optimize front-end performance and ensure cross-browser compatibility.
• Integrate front-end interfaces with backend APIs for seamless data flow.
• Contribute to the enhancement of our codebase by improving quality and documentation and reducing technical debt.
• Stay updated on current and emerging technologies.
• Utilize collaborative tools such as Gmail, Slack, Confluence, Jira, and various others for efficient communication, documentation, and project management.
• Participate in code reviews and design reviews.
• Document code and technical specifications for future reference.
• Analyze system performance, respond to incidents within specified deadlines, and provide services during on-call rotations to address system issues.
• Provide services in the Scrum process, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospective meetings, to contribute to project progress and team coordination. 
• Participate in project-critical meetings and provide regular status updates on deliverables.
• Manage your time independently and effectively to achieve project deliverables, which may require an estimated 40 hours of project-related effort per week.
• Coordinate with the team during core hours (8:00 am to 11:00 pm Pacific Time) to enhance project collaboration.  Some roles or urgent matters may require availability until 12:00 pm Pacific Time on occasion.

Must Haves (Required Skills):

• 8+ years of professional software development experience;
• Deep knowledge of modern JavaScript (ES6+) or Typescript, CSS, and HTML;
• Extensive experience with a modern JS framework, such as Vue (preferred), React, or Angular;
• Flutter experience or mobile experience is a major plus;
• Experience with unit testing and end-to-end UI testing;
• Basic understanding of accessibility (WCAG) guidelines and engineering principles;
• Self-motivation, self-organization and self-education skills;
• English on at least an intermediate level (should be able to pass the technical interview in English);
• Basic knowledge of PHP, server-side Javascript or Typescript, or other server side languages.  Basic knowledge of Node.js backend framework;
• Basic understanding of system design principles.
• Extensive knowledge of REST
• Experience in writing well-structured, easily maintainable unit tests (such as JUnit, Mockito, etc)
• Experience with relational databases
• Consistent track record of collaborating with large, distributed teams of engineers over documentation and code
• A desire to learn new technologies and continually develop your professional skills
• Comfortable working with AWS
• Experience building / supporting high-load web applications and solving scalability issues

Upwork is proudly committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce. We never discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.