About the Role / About the Job
Join a dynamic team dedicated to enhancing the web development experience within a leading financial infrastructure company. You will be tasked with improving builds, type checking, linting, and testing to enhance productivity both locally and in CI. This role involves evolving our monorepo, package management, and shared configurations to streamline operations across applications and libraries, allowing for a straightforward and reliable workflow.
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Responsibilities
- Improve web development productivity by optimizing builds, type checking, linting, and tests.
- Evolve monorepo, package management, and shared configurations for efficient changes across applications and libraries.
- Simplify the development environment setup to facilitate parallel work among engineers and coding agents, providing clear documentation and tools.
- Enhance web delivery pipelines, including preview environments, progressive rollouts, production monitoring, and reliable rollback mechanisms.
- Strengthen automated validation processes, ensuring browser-based checks help engineers and agents verify changes prior to release.
- Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to assess web performance, enhance observability, and address issues across application code, tooling, and delivery processes.
- Lead tooling upgrades and migrations, balancing long-term improvements with the immediate needs of engineers.
- Take ownership of improvements from design through rollout and ongoing maintenance, closely engaging with users to ensure effectiveness.
What You Bring
- Solid experience in building and maintaining production web applications, with a strong understanding of React and the modern JavaScript ecosystem.
- Proficiency in TypeScript and JavaScript, including experience with Node.js for tooling and automation.
- Good understanding of web application functionality, including browser behavior, module systems, bundling, caching, and performance.
- Experience enhancing developer tooling, build systems, automated testing, or CI/CD pipelines; ability to diagnose issues across these layers.
- Good judgment regarding reliability, security, maintainability, and evaluating when added complexity is justified.
- Ability to lead technical designs, communicate them effectively, and collaborate with other teams for adoption.
- Ownership mindset, capable of tackling ambiguous problems with practical solutions and sustaining them once in use.
Nice to Haves
- Experience managing large monorepos, shared packages, or maintaining tooling for multiple engineering teams.
- Familiarity with pnpm, ESM, and modern build, linting, and testing tools.
- Experience in browser automation, end-to-end testing, web performance profiling, or production observability.
- Hands-on experience with coding agents and enhancing their environments, documentation, and feedback loops.
- Familiarity with GitLab CI, containers, or cloud infrastructure for web development and delivery.
- Contributions to open-source frontend infrastructure or developer tools.
Contract, Travel & Other Details
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis unless a specific deadline is stated.
- Applicants have the right to redact information on their resumes that may identify personal details such as age, date of birth, or educational timeline.
- We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in line with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
- We celebrate diversity and hire based on merit, encouraging applicants from diverse backgrounds.
