Frontend Engineer

Ready for an opportunity to make a substantial impact with a disruptive tech company while building your Developer Advocate career in the rapidly growing Kubernetes ecosystem? Then come and PLOW with MayaData, the leading Container Attached Storage (CAS) solution for Kubernetes called OpenEBS.

At MayaData we believe that the best way to deliver storage and related services to containerized and cloud-native environments is with containerized and cloud-native architectures. Everything we do is focused on providing data agility and simplifying the daily operation of Kubernetes SRE's and DevOps teams using Kubernetes as a data layer. We enable our users to handle complex data management operations efficiently, and we have become open source leaders in building Kubernetes into a first-class data platform.

Location: Remote (US / Europe / India Time zones)

Responsibilities

  • Develop features and improvements to the product in a well-tested and performant way.
  • Develop features that meet the internationalization and localization best practices/standards.
  • Develop UI that supports white labeling.
  • Experienced in instrumenting the product to help with AB testing of new features.
  • Participate in the proper code-reviews.
  • Work with Product Management and other stakeholders (Backend, UX, etc.) to iterate on new features.
  • Craft code that meets our internal standards for quality, style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
  • Confidently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate and guide your team on larger projects.
  • Help improve the overall experience of our product through improving the quality of the Frontend features both in your and other teams.
  • Help identify areas of improvements in the code base, both specific to your team and outside your team (eg. component library) and help in contributing back to make it better
  • Fix prioritized issues from the issue tracker.
  • Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have particular impact across your team.
  • Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.
  • Exert influence on the overall objectives and long-range goals of your team.
  • Experience with performance and optimization problems, particularly at large scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
  • Represent MayaData and its values in public forums and conferences around broader initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions.
  • Provide mentorship for junior engineers in your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities.

Frontend Engineer Levels

Intern Frontend Engineer

Intern Frontend Engineers, while sharing the same requirements and responsibilities outlined above, typically join with less or alternate experience than typical Frontend Engineers.

Junior Frontend Engineer

Intermediate Frontend Engineers are expected to meet the requirements and execute the responsibilities with minimal assistance.

Frontend Engineer

As described above.

Senior Frontend Engineer

The Senior Frontend Engineer role extends the Frontend Engineer role. Additional responsibilities include:

  • Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have particular impact across your team.
  • Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.
  • Exert influence on the overall objectives and long-range goals of your team. This could be technical and/or product focused.
  • Actively participate at product grooming sessions. Help Lead Engineer to drive their area of responsibilities.
  • Experience with performance and optimization problems, particularly at large scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
  • Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment.
  • Represent MayaData and its values in public communication around broader initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions.
  • Provide mentorship for Junior and Intermediate Engineers in your section to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy.
  • Confidently ship moderately sized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
  • Improves the engineering projects at MayaData via maintainer trainee program at own comfortable pace, while striving to become a project maintainer.

Requirements

  • Professional experience with at least one modern JavaScript web MVC framework/library (React, Angular, Ember, VueJS).
  • Experience with UI automation test frameworks (eg. Selenium, cypress, Jest).
  • Experience using Git in the workplace environment.
  • A solid understanding in core web and browser concepts (eg. how HTTP protocol works, what are the verbs, etc.).
  • A solid understanding of HTML, CSS, and core JavaScript concepts.
  • A solid understanding of REST principles.
  • Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal.
  • Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
  • Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
  • Comfortable working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
  • Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization for a long-term.
  • Positive and solution-oriented mindset.
  • Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers and clear status updates
  • Self-motivated and self-managing.
  • Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization.
  • Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization.

The following are considered a plus:

  • Experience working with a global, remote team or otherwise multicultural team.
  • Experience in a high-performance organization, preferably a tech startup.
  • Experience contributing to open-source software.
  • Experience working as part of cloud-native solutions.
  • Domain knowledge of Kubernetes and/or storage.