Senior Software Engineer, Front-End Platform Team

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Engineering (R&D)
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Senior Software Engineer, Front-End Platform Team

Estonia
Engineering (R&D)
Position already filled
Apply Now

About Glia

Our award-winning technology powers conversations with customers for some of the world’s largest enterprises. We believe that combining the human touch with technology is the best way to create amazing customer experiences. When human abilities such as problem-solving, creative thinking and relationship building are enhanced with technology... magical moments happen.

Our award-winning technology powers conversations with customers for some of the world’s largest enterprises. We believe that combining the human touch with technology is the best way to create amazing customer experiences. When human abilities such as problem-solving, creative thinking, and relationship building are enhanced with technology... magical moments happen.

The opportunity 

Our Engineering team moves fast and doesn’t break our highly available, multi-region, feature-robust, continuously-delivered, AWS-K8s-hosted, microservice-powered, mission-critical system. Your mission as part of the Engineering team will be to apply cutting edge technology, to help some of the largest, most-respected companies in the world better connect with their customers.

What you'll do

As a Senior Software Engineer working at our Front-End Platform team, you’ll be helping other teams to achieve their goals faster by providing an in-house design system, adoptable React based framework and tooling that supports Front-End Engineers throughout the development lifecycle. In this impactful role, you will shape the platform of Glia’s most used front-end application.

Your primary focus is to significantly contribute to reaching the goals that are set for the team.   In addition to that you are expected to help setting the technical direction and mentor engineers inside and outside of the team. Curiosity and ability to learn fast independently is expected. Since you will be working on improving development experience and speed for others, you will at some point also need to work on technologies that are not associated with Front-End development. Examples being shell, groovy, kubernetes, docker, Ruby and configurations of different tools. The exact amount will depend on the needs of the product development teams.

The work

  • Maintaining and building tooling and build pipelines for the front-end developers.
  • Improving front-end developer experience in the organization.
  • Suggest and build solutions for improving application reliability, performance and robustness.
  • Guide fellow Engineers to help them succeed in their challenges and achieve their goals.
  • Design and implement proofs of concepts that support decision making.
  • Analyze different solutions to find the best one for current and future needs.
  • Plan and manage the full lifecycle of development projects.

Candidate requirements

  • Passionate and focused on technical aspects of Front-End - with a good understanding of core JavaScript and Web API’s
  • Experience in JavaScript Bundle optimization for complex large-scale applications
  • Experience creating Front-End application architecture for scale
  • Understanding of JavaScript build tooling, such as webpack
  • Experience in JavaScript performance optimization
  • Experience working in product organizations
  • Experience working cross-team
  • Interest in platform work, not just building good-looking Front-End

Nice to have

  • Experience in FE development using React
  • Full-Stack experience
  • Experience with open source library development
  • Experience working with Kubernetes and Docker to support shipping the solutions

Our tech stack

  • Front-end: React, JavaScript
  • Monitoring: DataDog
  • CI/CD: Jenkins
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, Docker


Benefits

  • Glia stock options and competitive salary
  • Diversity: 18 languages and 15 countries represented.
  • Professional development support  (trainings, courses, conferences, books, etc)
  • Transparent career development system
  • Different options for your working preferences (office, remote, flexible)
  • Access to all the latest tools and equipment you’ll need 
  • Sports compensation, reimbursement for therapy, counseling sessions
  • Team events: annual employee awards, internal hackathons, and a dozen cool events from cooking to the Glia olympic games :)
  • Generous referral bonuses 

*Glia is an equal opportunity employer. Glia does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law.

 

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What is Glia’s Mission?

To help businesses reinvent how they support customers in a digital world.

Customers should be able to engage with a brand from where they’re most comfortable and move seamlessly to other modes of communication as needed. Brands should be able to see the customer’s screen to instantly understand the customers’ point of view, and be their co-pilot to a satisfying experience.

Glia’s Digital Customer Service solution brings the in-person experience to all customer interactions - whether they start online or on the phone.

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