Staff engineer
Job Description:
We are seeking a Staff Frontend Engineer to join our team at Synaptic. In this role, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining user interfaces across different platforms, including the web, mobile, and chrome extension. You will also be responsible for ensuring and improving the quality of our codebase and mentoring junior developers. Your leadership will help drive the frontend organization at Synaptic toward excellence.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead, architect, and develop multiple areas of the Synaptic platform across the web, mobile, and chrome extension
- Actively participate in technical planning, hiring, and team skill building
- Translate business requirements into system requirements, design specifications, and document new and/or existing application requirements
- Conceive and lead the development and design of highly innovative, large software solutions that meet specifications and significantly impact future development. As a Staff Engineer, you will be expected to bring new and fresh ideas to the company and its solutions. You will be part of the ideation and conception phases and help define the scope of the project.
- Participate in conceiving and setting the direction for development projects and ensure best practices are followed by teams
- Perform root cause analyses on critical incidents and work on long-term resolutions as appropriate based on business priority
- Take complete ownership, iterate, and improve multiple key vertical areas of the frontend division, including design system, product analytics, data management, developer experience, core platform, mobile app, and chrome extension
- Generate innovative new ideas, concepts, high-fidelity software prototypes, and minimum viable products (MVPs) that accelerate or create new business capabilities
- Evaluate, analyze, and lead the adoption of emerging new technologies and practices to evolve as new standards that improve software delivery and maximize value
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in modern frontend development, with 3+ years of experience in React or React Native.
- Should have strong JavaScript fundamentals, with a good understanding of how rendering works across web and mobile apps.
- Should have a strong understanding of front-end build systems and tools like Webpack, Vite, Yarn, and Lerna.
- Should have a good understanding of building complex, performant web applications. Experience in measuring and debugging performance across web and mobile.
- Should have experience in planning and writing test cases - Unit testing, Snapshot testing, and Integration tests.
- Should have experience in improving CI/CD pipelines, preferably in a monorepo.
- Should have experience in setting up tracking and improving frontend performance on the web and mobile.
- Good to have an above-reasonable understanding of how backend systems work and an eye for product design.
The candidate should be a quick learner and should be up to date with current technology trends. We solve complex, completely new problems in the financial domain which requires someone who is not intimidated by challenges, thrives under pressure, and hyper-focused on delivering exceptional results.
Experience: 8-12 years
Key Skills :
Company Profile
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