Frontend Developer Productivity Engineer

Hybrid /onsite in New York

A world leading software company that employs over 4000 staff, our client builds software to enable companies to make data-driven decisions. A powerful platform that empowers partners to develop life changing solutions from healthcare to supply chain.

We are looking for a frontend developer with a real passion for engineering qualit and more importantly, increasing the productivity and impact of your fellow internal engineers.

As a Frontend Developer Productivity, you’ll work within the Frontend Infrastructure group to identify, develop, and drive investments to improve the velocity and quality of engineering.

The frontend infrastructure group covers the entire frontend development stack, from the developer experience in the IDE to the final user experience in the browser. Across the group you will be responsible for developing and maintaining:

• The build and CI system for a large frontend monorepo with millions of lines of code and hundreds of active developers (Gradle)

• Core infrastructure required to develop and serve frontends, including feature flags, internationalization, and commit previews.

• A GraphQL API for declarative data loading, spanning many underlying services.

• An Open source UI framework used by all applications and thousands of developers around the world.

• A variety of tools and VSCode extensions that improve developer experience across the company.

Core Responsibilities

• Design tools and infrastructure that make it easy for developers to build performant applications.
• Identify the most pressing issues affecting frontend developers and advocate for potential solutions.
• Extend the Gradle-based build tooling to decrease build times even as the size of the monorepo increases.
• Provide support for other developers by answering questions on Slack, documenting common dev workflows and issues, or giving internal tech talks.

Technologies

• A variety of programming languages, including TypeScript, SCSS, and Java.
• Open-source libraries and frameworks like React and GraphQL.
• Industry-standard build tooling, including Gradle, Webpack, CircleCI, and GitHub.

What Are We Looking For:

• Passion for helping other developers build better applications.
• Empathy for the impact your changes will have on the workflows and productivity of developers and end users.
• Demonstrated ability to design solutions that balance complexity and ongoing maintenance cost against value to the developer and end user.
• Eagerness to delve into the source code of open-source libraries (such Webpack or Chromium) to truly understand how they work or to debug an issue.
• Staying up-to-date with recent industry practices and advancements in open-source technology.
• In-depth knowledge of web technologies and/or build systems is preferred, but not required.
• 2+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong coding skills, with demonstrated proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, C++, Python, or another similar programming language.
• Great problem solving skills with the ability to navigate complex systems.
• Familiarity with data structures, distributed systems, and other technical tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

What Is On Offer:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life and disability coverage
• Paid leave for new parents and emergency back-up care for all parents
• Family planning support, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy assistance
• Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
• Commuter benefits
• Relocation assistance
• Unlimited paid time off
• 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year