Senior Front-end Engineer (Operationalize)

Job Summary

Responsibilities:

• Make decisions based on multiple quality dimensions like user impact, failure tolerance, code maintenance, implementation time, security breaches, and performance.
• Mentor fellow teammates.
• Collaborate on novel ideas to improve the team processes.
• Lead initiatives.
• Care for and monitor the quality of our product.
• Raise awareness of technical issues.
• Develop a clear understanding of business value and collaborate with stakeholders by analyzing features and suggesting alternatives.
• Proactively identify technical debt and product areas that require attention or improvements and suggest improvements in our technology stack.
• Bring up difficult and/or systemic challenges and impediments to the attention of your manager.

In the first week, expect to:

• Meet your team members.
• Get acquainted with our technical stack.
• Learn about our architecture and the development process.

In the first month, expect to:

• Attend regular meetings, like technical calls, retrospectives, and the monthly Engineering All-hands meeting.
• Start working on general team tasks and become familiar with the domain.
• Start to receive regular feedback from your manager in accordance with the Toptal engineering growth program.

In the first three months, expect to:

• Settle in and get comfortable with the team processes.
• Contribute significantly to the application’s development.

In the first six months, expect to:

• Become a key member of the team and help others inside and outside of the team.
• Contribute to the planning of large initiatives.
• Lead technical initiatives within the team.
• Drive improvements to the codebase and processes.

In the first year, expect to:

• Mentor and be part of the interviewing processes, to support the growth of our top-skilled engineering team.
• Lead product initiatives.

Qualifications and Job Requirements:

• Solid 5+ years front-end experience.
• Experience in TypeScript, React and HTML are required.
• React, Apollo GraphQL, TypeScript, and Jest are our front-end stack. The desire to learn and be proficient in them is welcome.
• Experience with Next.js, monorepo, Progressive Web Apps are strongly preferred.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails is a plus.
• Experience with other non-frontend programming languages and technical stacks is welcome.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Thriving in autonomy in every aspect of daily work - be able to unblock yourself by finding the right people or help.
• Being a team player by avoiding solo performances and unblocking your peers.
• Caring for quality through impactful tests, process change proposals, and raising awareness of issues be them product or technical.
• Caring for architecture - applying best practices, using software design patterns, and bringing ideas for improvements.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and handle a wide variety of challenges, deadlines, and a diverse array of contacts.
• You must be a world-class individual contributor to thrive at Toptal. You will not be here just to tell other people what to do.