The Role

• We are looking for an experienced frontend engineer to join the Web Platform and Experiences Team in Zeta’s Tachyon Foundations Organization as a Principal Software Engineer. The engineer holding this position will be responsible for taking architectural decisions around building a scalable web application development platform through various frameworks and libraries with goal to improve the agility of developing web applications by enforcing reusability, consistency across user interfaces with a focus on improving the developer experience. 

What would you do here?

• Designing and building a first of its kind web ecosystem that drives the business, engages and inspires our community of consumers and enthusiasts, and meets the functional needs of our customers andpartners.
• Providing Technical Direction to the frontend engineers with the Web Platform and Experiences team
• Turn business requirements into a solid, detailed technical designs.
• Research, develop proof of concepts to validate design choices and technology choices are best fit for solving the challenges infront of the team
• Lead frontend technical development efforts independently, define software architecture, explore existing systems, determine areas of complexity and potential risks to successful implementation of enterprise scale web applications.
• Collaborate across various functional teams like design, product management and backend architects and development teams to validate prototypes and to create elegant, usable, responsive and interactive interfaces which meet client requirements.
• Mentoring and supporting team members
• Defining standardization across various frontend technologies and enforce best practices interms of coding, testing and deployment and documentation.

What are we looking for?

• A minimum of 8 years of professional JavaScript software engineering experience.
• Strong command over web development technologies and practices.
• Strong command over modern frontend development and micro frontend architecture
• Strong command over Javascript / Typescript, ES6 and beyond
• Strong command over Vue/React/Angular or any web framework with internal understanding
• Strong in CSS
• Strong command over design patterns, version control, enterprise architecture and software engineering principles.
• Proven experience in designing web application architecture for multi tenant SaaS applications
• Strong command over  Node JS and server side framework eg: Express JS/fastify
• Experienced with APIs and a strong understanding of HTTP and REST architecture.
• Confident working on solutions from initial wireframes, through prototyping, into building a final product
• Experienced with code building tools like webpack 4+, rollup etc.
• Experienced with web UI testing frameworks
• Experienced with build tools like Jenkins, Circle CI, Travis CI
• Good understanding of browser architecture and cross browser compatibility
• Good communication and personal skills: ability to interact and work well with members of other functional groups in a project team and a strong sense of project ownership.
• Enthusiast, Energetic, Fast learner towards new web technologies.
• Experience with backend focused languages like Go, NodeJS, Java, Python
• Have Understanding with database technology such as Postgres/MySQL
• Have understanding of different network  protocols like HTTP/HTTPS, HTTP2.0, websocket etc
• Understanding about web servers (NGINX, Apache etc) and application servers(Express)
• Have Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and other cloud technologies.
• Familiarity with performance testing and optimizations