Senior Web Engineer I

Summary

Join HashiCorp's Web Presence team as a Senior Engineer and contribute to the development and maintenance of the HashiCorp Developer platform. This role involves improving the platform's functionality using TypeScript, JavaScript, and React, while collaborating with other teams. You will take ownership of backend systems and platform tooling, advocate for clean code, and contribute to the improvement of the developer experience. The ideal candidate possesses extensive full-stack development experience, particularly within the JavaScript ecosystem, and a strong understanding of backend development and API design. The position offers the opportunity to work remotely and contribute to a high-impact platform.

Requirements

• 8+ years of full-stack development experience, with a focus on the JavaScript ecosystem (Node.js, Express, Next.js) and its related tool chain
• Must have experience with Nextjs
• Strong expertise in backend and platform-side development, including API design, server-side architecture, and database integration and design
• Deep expertise and experience with React
• Experience with TypeScript, semantic HTML, CSS, and modern JavaScript standards
• Demonstrated experience building high-quality web experiences from inception to completion that are accessible, performant, responsive, and scalable
• Source code control best practices using GitHub or other similar tools
• Understanding of and experience with unit, integration and end-to-end testing
• Communicate clearly while remaining empathetic and kind
• Have an eagerness to learn through humility and reflection

Responsibilities

• Continuously improve the product by writing code in systems based on TypeScript, JavaScript, and React
• Take ownership of, contribute to and evolve our backend systems and platform tooling in support of project initiatives
• Advocate for clean code, refactoring when needed, and understanding trade-offs
• Enable your teammates through technical contributions, code reviews, and pair programming
• Learn and adhere to best practices, and provide suggestions for improvements, including reviewing and contributing to RFCs and PRDs
• Collaborate with product and education engineers to improve their authoring experience of educational content and product documentation. Troubleshoot and support their publishing processes when necessary
• Strive for consistency, and advocate for data-driven decisions
• Communicate technical opinions and project rationale to other engineers and leadership

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong experience working with the Vercel platform
• Familiarity with content management workflows and tools, including experience working with Markdown transformation pipelines
• Experience building custom GitHub Actions or with similar CI/CD platforms
• Experience using Docker and container-based deployments
• Experience with deploying services and maintaining cloud-hosted services, AWS experience is a plus
• Strong understanding of web accessibility standards and inclusive design principles, including a basic understanding of WCAG 2.2 Level AA accessibility standards

Benefits

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