Senior Software Engineer - Developer Platform

Front is a customer operations platform that enables support, sales, and account management teams to deliver exceptional service at scale. Front streamlines customer communication by combining the efficiency of a help desk and the familiarity of email, with automated workflows and real-time collaboration behind the scenes. With Front, teams can centralize messages across channels, route them to the right person, and unlock visibility and insights across all of their customer operations. 

More than 8,000 businesses across many different industries (manufacturing, logistics, travel, financial services, tech, etc.) use Front to drive operational efficiency that prevents churn, improves retention, and propels customer growth. Backed by Sequoia Capital and Salesforce Ventures, Front has raised $204M from leading venture capital firms and independent investors including top executives at Atlassian, Okta, Qualtrics, Zoom, and PagerDuty. Front has received numerous Great Place to Work accolades, including Y Combinator's list of Top Companies in 2023, #4 on Fortune’s Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™, Inc. Magazine's 2022 Best Workplaces list, Forbes Best Startup Employers 2022 List, and Best workplaces for Millennials 2022 list.

We are looking for an experienced full stack engineer to join the team responsible for the platform and APIs that power over 100 partner integrations, thousands of custom workflows, and millions of API requests per day. As a member of the Developer Platform team, you’ll be responsible for building the next generation of integrations for our partner developers and customers. By enabling customers to take advantage of backend automation and build bespoke UIs within Front, your work will be the foundation of Front’s mission to empower businesses to provide tailor-made service at scale. 

As a member of the Developer Platform team, you’ll be responsible for building the next generation of integrations for our partner developers and customers. This includes ownership of Front Platform, which allows customers to create and manage their applications directly in Front. We build the systems behind the Core API, plugin SDK, and application lifecycle framework. More recently, we have focused on no-code solutions which help customers bring in third party data to power their workflows within Front.

What will you be doing?

• Design, develop, and maintain the systems behind Front’s public API, application framework, and plugin SDK

• Drive discussions around Front’s integrations strategy

• Design, build, and own developer-friendly frameworks and documentation

• Collaborate closely with product managers, product designers and other engineers to conceptualize, build and test new product features

What skills and experience do you need?

• Product mindset: committed to building the best user and developer experience

• Industry experience building fast, reliable, real-time web-based applications

• Experience working with or building APIs

• Fluency in a dynamic language like Javascript, Python, Ruby, or similar

• Strong track record of launching and delivering projects of significant complexity and high level of ambiguity

• Understand the trade-offs in employing different engineering solutions to a problem, valuing pragmatism over idealism

• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, collaborative, and high-growth environment

• Full professional English proficiency

Bonus:

• Experience working with complex data models and distributed systems at scale.

• Experience with TypeScript and React.js.

• Experience with API design

Visas: Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

Hybrid: This position requires being in-office 2 days a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays)