Remote Staff Engineer

Summary

Join Upbound as a Staff Engineer on Upbound Console and build user experiences that delight customers, contributing to the overall business and product.

Requirements

• Written lots of responsive and performant User Interfaces (UIs - TypeScript preferred)
• Developed interfaces solving for cloud computing infrastructure management or Kubernetes management concerns
• Designed reliable, beautiful, and delightful to use Single Page Applications (SPA) with a variety of frameworks (React is ideal)
• Designed and developed APIs and services that are tuned for performance, observability, security, scalability, and high reliability
• Written test plans and implemented test cases to keep your code to a high standard of quality, using libraries such as Jest and react-testing-library, as well as end-to-end testing frameworks like Cypress
• Followed CSS best practices for designing responsive user interfaces, such as Flex and Grid
• Managed application state with libraries such as Redux
• Optimized the packaging and deployment of your applications with bundling tools like Webpack
• Internalized how important owning the “face” of the product is and the effect it has on customer experience
• Architected and deployed highly scaled and reliable applications in multiple environments
• Incorporated modern operational and application delivery tools and methodologies into your production deployment workflows, like CI/CD, IaC, and GitOps

Responsibilities

• Designing and building the end user facing experiences of Upbound Console
• Designing and developing backend declarative, RESTful, and GraphQL APIs to retrieve application data and build dynamic visualizations and experiences
• Optimizing and troubleshooting Single Page Applications (SPA) across a diverse variety of environments (browsers, etc.)
• Reporting and fixing bugs in private and public projects
• Designing and authoring test plans, unit testing, and integration testing to ensure high quality code that is free of regressions
• Mentoring more junior members of the team and providing high quality constructive feedback on pull requests and design documents
• Partnering with other disciplines and roles on a shared mission, demonstrating highly effective communication and collaboration skills
• Supporting the full project lifecycle - discovery, analysis, architecture, design, documentation, building, migration, automation, and production-readiness

Preferred Qualifications

• Have worked in a startup and distributed/remote team before, and understand the unique challenges of a startup environment
• Have built or contributed to backend services written in the Go programming language
• Have been responsible for deploying/managing workloads running on Kubernetes in production
• Have a history of speaking at technology conferences, blogging/writing technical articles, and/or contributing to a popular open source project