Senior Front-End Engineer

Summary

Join PagerDuty's diverse team in Lisbon as a Senior Front-End Engineer - Platform! You will be instrumental in building and implementing a new design system and component library, working closely with designers, engineers, and customers. This role requires extensive experience in front-end development (React), design systems, and building npm packages. You will architect, code, test, and ship frontend components, ensuring secure and scalable solutions. The position involves collaboration across teams and participation in on-call rotation. PagerDuty offers a flexible hybrid workplace and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• You have at least 6+ years of experience building and managing web apps using a modern component-based framework
• Experience building npm packages including bundling and distribution
• Deep understanding of semantic HTML, CSS, and client-side TypeScript/JavaScript
• Must have experience working with React, have worked on distributed React apps, and be familiar with NodeJS/bundling tools required
• Have a deep understanding of modern styling techniques on the web including, CSS-in-JS frameworks and CSS modules
• Knowledge about core parts of frontend engineering (state management, performance, accessibility, styling, infrastructure)
• You will be participating in your team’s on-call rotation, triaging and addressing production issues as they arise

Responsibilities

• Act as long term and partner with designers and engineers to build a design system and component library that will be used across PagerDuty
• Design and architect the set of flexible platform building blocks that will become the PagerDuty Platform
• Working closely with teams, building on top of our design system and component library to understand their needs, gather their feedback, and communicate with them on a regular basis
• From day one, you’ll be architecting, coding, testing, and shipping frontend components and libraries that ensure we deliver secure, highly reliable, and scalable solutions to our customers
• Since we own and operate what we build, you’ll collaborate closely with engineers across teams
• Curate the frontend design system and component library in a complex distributed system
• Develop and use frontend architecture patterns that scale across the engineering organization and provide better user and developer experiences
• Write unit and integration tests
• Own and shepherd projects that our team takes on
• Champion accessibility on the web and its usage in the component library

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with open-source UI component libraries like Chakra, MUI, or similar
• Empathy - you can clearly communicate your thoughts and opinions to others and facilitate these technical discussions to a successful outcome
• Commitment to ensuring our team works sustainably and inclusively
• Have worked on a component library or design system before
• Favor regular, incremental delivery over perfection
• Strive for continuous learning and improvement for themselves and their teams
• Are excited about ensuring that all of our systems scale smoothly

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive benefits package from day one
• Flexible work arrangements
• Generous paid vacation time
• Paid holidays and sick leave
• Dutonian Wellness Days - scheduled company-wide paid days off in addition to PTO
• Company equity*
• ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Program)*
• Retirement or pension plan*
• Paid parental leave - up to 22 weeks for pregnant parent, up to 12 weeks for non-pregnant parent (some countries have longer leave standards and we comply with local laws)*
• HibernationDuty - an annual company paid week off when everyone at PagerDuty, with the exception of a small, coverage crew, is asked to take a much needed break to truly disconnect and recharge
• Paid volunteer time off - 20 hours per year
• Company-wide hack weeks
• Mental wellness programs