Senior Front End Developer Experience Engineer

Summary

Join Preply's DevEx squad as a passionate Front End Engineer! Enhance developer experience, streamline software development, and leverage AI for efficiency improvements. You will identify and resolve pain points in workflows, support engineers, evaluate tools, automate tasks, and collaborate across teams. The role requires strong TypeScript/JavaScript expertise and experience with modern frontend build tools and CI/CD pipelines. Preply offers a collaborative culture, generous benefits including a lesson allowance, learning & development budget, competitive financial package with equity, health insurance, flexible setup, and the opportunity to impact learners globally.

Requirements

• Strong TypeScript/JavaScript expertise
• Experience with modern frontend build tools (Vite, Webpack etc.)
• Experience with constructing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins and GitHub Actions preferred)
• Understanding of frontend testing approaches (unit, integration, storybook, screenshot, e2e)
• Experience with test automation and stability improvements
• Experience with frontend monorepo management
• Experience with npm package development and publishing
• Understanding of web performance optimization
• Experience with frontend application monitoring and debugging

Responsibilities

• Unlock Developer Productivity: Identify and resolve pain points in code, build, test, and deployment workflows to make our engineers’ lives easier
• Support: Become the go-to expert for diagnosing and resolving development environment and tool issues
• Tool Evaluation: Test, evaluate, and investigate software development tools, and collaborate with vendors to elevate our development process
• Automation: Automate repetitive tasks and streamline development workflows
• Collaboration: Partner with other tribes and squads in Platform tribe to deliver the best tools and practices for development workflows
• Documentation and Training: Develop clear guidelines and conduct training sessions to help developers adopt new tools and processes
• Onboarding: Simplify the onboarding process with user-friendly, self-service development environments
• Technical Excellence: Help improve the Backend engineering experience and keep our tooling in tip top shape, including AWS running infrastructure and tools supporting our engineers
• Data-Driven Improvements: Make measurable improvements to our CI/CD pipelines, ensuring fast and reliable builds (currently around 90 deployments per day)
• Infrastructure Optimization: Maintain and optimize our development and testing infrastructure to provide stable and efficient environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with GraphQL
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Python development experience
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Experience with AWS
• Experience with localization tooling and pipelines (crowdin)
• Experience improving build times and CI/CD reliability

Benefits

• Open, collaborative, dynamic and diverse culture
• Generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com
• Learning & Development budget, including time off for your self-development
• Competitive financial package with equity, leave allowance and health insurance
• Access to free mental health support platforms
• Flexible set-up with the option of paid relocation to Barcelona, or working remotely within a close time zone
• Opportunity to shape the lives of learners and tutors from over 175 countries through language learning and teaching