Staff Software Engineer - Frontend Web Developer

Summary

Join A Place for Mom as a Staff Software Engineer and leverage your expertise in front-end web technology to lead the development and maintenance of our public website. You will utilize a modern tech stack (Javascript/Typescript, React, NodeJS) to update and maintain our website experiences across SEO and SEM channels. This role requires 10+ years of engineering experience and in-depth knowledge of front-end technologies. As a strategic leader, you will collaborate with product teams, mentor junior engineers, and champion quality engineering practices. You will play a key role in designing, building, and supporting modern front-end technologies, ensuring alignment between technological innovation and product development goals. The position offers a competitive salary ($160,000 to $175,000 + 20% bonus) and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• 10+ years of engineering experience working with a Javascript/Typescript, React, and NodeJS tech stack
• In-depth knowledge of front-end technologies, frameworks, and best practices
• Experience with leveraging relational databases in a scalable, efficient way; GQL and MongoDB preferred
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment while architecting dependable solutions that scale effectively
• Role model and champion modern ways-of-working such as Agile, DevOps and related practices, actively participate in an engineering community
• Strong communication and “storytelling” skills – ability to articulate a vision or concept in simple terms to a broad audience at every level
• Helps enable and establish services and products to take advantage of changing industry trends and opportunities
• Is able to step back from a task and reassess size and complexity when appropriate
• Takes ownership of the quality of the solution or feature being implemented
• Demonstrates competent problem-solving skills (e.g. debugging, analysis and instrumentation) in a context beyond code they've written
• Takes ownership of keeping technical documentation for their features up to date

Responsibilities

• Use deep UI engineering and creative skills to take an influential role in iterating and continuously deploying new features, functionality, and products to our users
• Collaboratively design and architect cloud native and service-oriented UI components and applications
• Collaborate with team and peers to design complex applications, peer review code, and suggest optimization
• Enable continuous deployment by championing quality engineering practices: linting, unit testing, e2e testing, pipeline automation
• Collaborate with and influence product teams to build and maintain design system standards, processes, and adoption
• Create reference material for the purpose of mentoring and leading more junior staff (when required)
• Help define engineering best practices and provide technical mentorship
• Investigate and resolve any production issues from end user (UI) to service layer and work to prevent them
• Work with project managers to ensure that all project deliverables are on time and high quality
• Mobile first site performance optimizations with a focus on core web vitals
• Passionately understand the user experience and create a beautiful web journey

Benefits

• Base Salary: $160,000 to $175,000 + 20% Bonus
• 401(k) plus match
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Paid Time Off