Staff Software Engineer

We are a cloud-native observability platform with AIOps capabilities seeking a Staff Engineer – React-based UI to drive the front-end design and implementation of our new marketplace initiative. This project focuses on enabling e-commerce features for internal products and eventually expanding to third-party integrations. You will join a small, focused team (4–5 engineers) where you’ll own the front-end technical strategy, mentor other developers, and ensure a seamless user experience across our marketplace.

Your Role

• UI Architecture & Design
• Define and implement a scalable front-end architecture using React, ensuring maintainability and performance.
• Drive decisions around state management, component composition, and design patterns (e.g., Redux, Context API, or similar libraries).
• Hands-on Development
• Build and maintain high-quality, reusable components in React (and possibly TypeScript) to support rapid feature development and consistent UX patterns.
• Collaborate closely with backend engineers to integrate RESTful or GraphQL APIs, ensuring robust data fetching strategies and error handling.
• Performance & Reliability
• Implement front-end optimizations for fast load times and smooth interactions, leveraging modern caching, code-splitting, and bundling techniques.
• Champion best practices for monitoring front-end performance in production (e.g., real user monitoring, error tracking, analytics).
• E-commerce & Marketplace User Experience
• Design engaging, intuitive workflows for browsing, purchasing, and managing SKUs in our marketplace.
• Incorporate secure payment flows and user authentication patterns that streamline checkout processes while maintaining compliance and security.
• Continuously refine the user journey in response to feedback, usage metrics, and evolving product goals.
• Technical Leadership & Mentoring
• Guide mid-level and junior front-end developers, conducting code reviews and sharing best practices.
• Collaborate with designers, product managers, and other engineers to align on project goals and manage technical priorities.
• Contribute to long-term technical strategy and front-end standards (code quality, testing, accessibility).
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Work with Product, UX, and QA teams to gather requirements, ensure design fidelity, and maintain a consistent look and feel throughout the marketplace.
• Align with back-end and infrastructure teams to enable continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) and orchestrate frontend environments effectively.

Required Skills & Experience

• Expertise in React & Modern Front-End Technologies
• 5+ years of professional experience in front-end or full-stack development, with a primary focus on React.
• Deep understanding of JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3, and front-end build tools (e.g., Webpack, Babel).
• Familiarity with state management frameworks such as Redux, MobX, or React Context.
• UI Performance & Optimization
• Proven ability to optimize React applications for performance, including code splitting, memoization, and lazy loading.
• Experience diagnosing performance bottlenecks using Chrome DevTools, Lighthouse, or similar tools.
• E-commerce Integration
• Hands-on experience building user-facing checkout or subscription flows.
• Understanding of secure payment integrations (Stripe, PayPal, etc.) and best practices in data security.
• Collaboration & Leadership
• Track record of providing technical leadership to projects and teams.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and guiding architectural decisions in a cross-functional environment.
• Preferred Qualifications
• TypeScript Proficiency
• Working knowledge of TypeScript or other typed languages for a more reliable and scalable codebase.
• Cloud & Observability
• Familiarity with cloud-native observability practices, including logging, tracing, and monitoring front-end applications.
• Comfortable with AIOps concepts and how they might enhance user experience and troubleshooting in a marketplace context.
• Design Systems & Accessibility
• Experience implementing design systems for consistent UI patterns.
• Understanding of WCAG guidelines and hands-on experience ensuring accessibility compliance.

If you’re passionate about building high-performance, intuitive front-end experiences in a cloud-native environment and want to help define the look, feel, and functionality of a cutting-edge marketplace, we encourage you to apply. Join us and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of observability-driven e-commerce.