Job Url: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/435a9770-0983-4ce1-bf4b-a395d7363cf0

Job Description: About the Role:
We are looking for a seasoned Frontend Engineer for the Experience Architecture team. The Experience Architecture team ensures and maintains a cohesive, intuitive and streamlined user experience across Confluent’s cloud products by collaborating across product lines.

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.

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.

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

What Gives You an Edge:
Excellent cross-group collaboration skills

Experience refactoring or migrating large code bases

Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.