The Staff Front End Engineer will develop customer-facing applications, focusing on quality, stability, and business impact, while mentoring a team.
Powered by AI and machine learning, MotiveMetrics (SaaS) creates the optimal paid search environment guaranteeing the best ads show against targeted search queries. Through our Team + Tech ("People-Powered AI") approach, our platform dynamically creates and manages account structures, identifies and deploys new keywords, and generates winning ad copy automatically, at scale.
We are looking for a staff front end software engineer to work on our emerging customer-facing application. This engineer will be someone that cares deeply about quality, business impact, and stability of the systems they build. The projects we need this individual to work on are highly visible and customer-centric.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of industry experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages, such as: JavaScript, Python, Ruby, or Go
- 5+ years of industry experience with React or another modern JavaScript web framework (VueJS, Angular, Ember, etc.)
- 5+ years of experience designing, building, deploying, operating, testing, and evolving web applications
- 3+ years of experience as a mentor, tech lead and/or leading an engineering team
- Experience using AWS including services like AWS ECS, Lambda & S3
- Experience with DevOps and CI/CD in a cloud environment
- Experience using monitoring solutions like CloudWatch, Elastic APM, Datadog, and/or Prometheus
- Experience writing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), using tools like CloudFormation, Terraform, and/or AWS CDK
Nice to haves:
- Experience with Google AdWords, Microsoft Advertising or Facebook Ads
- Experience building Machine Learning systems
This is an excellent opportunity to join a well-funded technology startup to solve problems at scale in a fast-paced, growing environment.
Top Skills
AWS
Aws Cdk
CloudFormation
Cloudwatch
Datadog
Elastic Apm
Go
JavaScript
Prometheus
Python
React
Ruby
Terraform
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