Job Description
Position Overview:
Viral Nation is looking for a highly-skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer, Web to join our dynamic organization. This role will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our engineering processes. As a senior member of the tech org, this role will collaborate within a cross-functional team, but also with technical and non-technical teams across the business, providing technical leadership, frontend architectural guidance, and ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop scalable, secure, and maintainable web applications.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to refine and break down requirements into user stories and tasks in the squad backlog.
- Lead the technical design and implementation of complex features and modules, ensuring adherence to architectural principles and coding standards defined by the architecture committee.
- Collaborate with UX/UI designers to ensure seamless integration of design elements into frontend architecture.
- Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and mentor junior engineers to foster a culture of continuous improvement and excellence.
- Troubleshoot and debug issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement effective solutions to ensure the stability and performance of web applications.
- Implement and advocate for performance optimization techniques to enhance the overall user experience.
- Stay abreast of emerging web technologies and trends, and evaluate their potential use in our products and platform.
- Collaborate with the SRE team to optimize deployment processes, monitor application performance, and ensure reliability and scalability.
- Actively participate in Scrum rituals, such as sprint planning, estimation, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives, to drive project delivery and maintain transparency.
Qualifications and Skills:
- A minimum of 5+ years of experience in a full stack software engineer role with a strong understanding of web application architecture and design patterns, and performance optimization tools and techniques.
- Demonstrated expertise in frontend technologies and popular libraries and frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.
- Extensive experience with responsive design and CSS frameworks.
- An advanced understanding of frontend testing tools and frameworks.
- Strong familiarity with RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
- Clear and concise cross-functional communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience with web accessibility standards and guidelines is a strong plus.
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, OR relevant experience.
Viral Nation is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in our agency. Viral Nation welcomes applications from people with visible and non-visible disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruiting and selection process.