Senior Frontend Engineer

About the role

As a frontend engineer at Pi, you will ship delightful experiences to every customer and potential customer who visits Pi’s site. You will help with technical decisions, collaborate with other engineers on the team, and partner with stakeholders cross-functionally. You'll write code and be part of the team that defines our product strategy. On a typical day, you can expect to plan and scope future projects and help ship a new feature. Besides writing & reviewing code, you'll plan work, write tech specs & review design docs, lead projects, collaborate across disciplines, and mentor other engineers. And if you do well and help us grow, you may be given the opportunity to manage a team if you're interested in that.

What you'll do

• You will design and build software capable of reaching our users

• You will partner with product managers, designers, and analysts to deeply understand the needs of our users and create a product that serves those needs

• You will develop and execute against both short and long-term roadmaps, making effective tradeoffs between business impact, user experience, and a high-quality technical foundation

• You will improve the team and company – you will be an active participant in our culture (mentorship, interviewing, and new initiatives)

• You will support your fellow engineers through feedback, code reviews, and advancement of internal tools and processes

• You will help translate designs and wireframes into high-quality code

• You will optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

What we're seeking

Must have

• Proficient in React JS, JavaScript/TypeScript.

• Advanced proficiency in core principles, including state management, functional components, hooks, and virtual DOM manipulation.

• Experience working with sophisticated application state, e.g. MobX, Apollo Client, Redux, or similar.

• Working knowledge with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, or similar data communication protocols.

• Experience with asynchronous programming, workers, and performance optimization.

• Experience in developing secure web applications and knowledge of application vulnerabilities such as Cross Site Scripting (XSS), Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) etc.

• Familiarity with Figma and principles of design

• Good understanding of advanced CSS3 concepts including Flex and CSS Grid and usage in large-scale enterprise applications.

• Experience with 2D visualization libraries like D3 and 3D visualization tools like Three.js and WebGL.

• Accountable for conducting Unit and Automation tests using the Cypress framework, Storybook, Test Complete, Silk Test, Jest, Mocha, Playwright and Chai.

• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines (like Github Actions). Hands-on experience with cloud services, preferably AWS, CI/CD solutions, and monitoring tools.

• Familiarity with modern web UI trends and Motion designs.

• Ability to write clean, well-factored UI code.

• Proven ability to lead and mentor other React JS developers

Nice to have

• Proactive problem-solving skills with an eagerness to fix inefficiencies

• Comfort with ambiguity and resilient when facing rapid change

• A consistent track record of successfully leading and coordinating projects across teams or functions

• Juggle a mix of large and small projects, often with overlapping priority and urgency

• A sense of urgency and ownership over your work