Senior Frontend Engineer

Arena is a tech company created in Silicon Valley with a mission to revolutionize the conversation AI industry. Companies using Arena include Disney, Red Bull, ESPN, Microsoft and Fox. We have +2,000 customers in 150 countries and with +550M users consuming our live chat per month. Arena has raised $16M from top-tier investors in Silicon Valley such as CRV, Craft Ventures, and Redpoint.

More about Arena on Techcrunch and VentureBeat.

 

What you will be doing

Our team is made up of very experienced engineers, some with more than 10 years of experience. You will have an enormous impact on making our app and API service faster, more scalable and more flexible. You will add new features to the service and find ways to make the existing ones perform orders of magnitude faster.

The Senior Frontend Engineer will be responsible for developing features and improvements to the Arena product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way. They will work with Product Management and other stakeholders, such as Backend and UX, to iterate on new features within the Arena product.

Crafting code that meets internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment is crucial. The Senior Frontend Engineer will maintain and advocate for these standards through code review. Improving the overall product experience through improving the quality of the Frontend features, both in their group and features that benefit other groups, is also a responsibility. Identifying areas of improvement in the code base and contributing to improving it is also essential.

The Senior Frontend Engineer will learn, collaborate, and teach other Frontend Engineers. They will fix prioritized issues from the issue tracker and contribute to and follow the workflow process. Advocating for product quality, security, and performance improvements that have a particular impact on their team and others is a crucial responsibility.

Solving technical problems of the highest scope and complexity for their team and exerting significant influence on the group's overall vision and long-range goals is also expected. They will shepherd the definition and improvement of internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment, drive innovation on the team, and proactively seek out and solve difficult impediments to the team's efficiency.

Representing Arena and its values in public communication around broad initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions are also part of the role. Providing mentorship for all Engineers on the team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers is also expected.

Participating in the Incident Management on-call rotation to help ensure the availability goals for Arena.im is also a requirement.

The Senior Frontend Engineer must have professional experience with:

• React or another modern JavaScript web framework

• Experience with writing automated tests, experience using Git in a professional/workplace environment

• A solid understanding of core web and browser concepts

• A solid understanding of semantic HTML, CSS, and core JavaScript concepts

• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and primarily asynchronous work environment,

• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and organizational problems proposing through iterative solutionsExperience with performance and optimization problems

• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process

• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term, a positive and solution-oriented mindset, practical communication skills, an inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility, self-motivated and self-managing with excellent organizational skills

• Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization and share the organization's values.

If you have a passion for web development and are excited about using your skills to build high-performance systems, we want to hear from you. Apply today to join our team!

 

 

WHY WORK FOR ARENA?

🔥  Be a part of the team in Silicon Valley and join a global team
🗺   Work remotely and visit the HQ in San Francisco, California
💪  A team of exceptional engineers
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