Staff Frontend Engineer

Overview

Company name: Appsmith | HQ Location: San Francisco, California | Website | LinkedIn

Role: Staff Frontend Engineer

• Salary: Rs. 50-70 lakhs per year
• Experience: 8+ years
• Location: Remote
• Type: Full-time

What you will do

1. Strategic Alignment & Vision:

• Identify anti-patterns and champion long-term strategic investments to build a solid foundation for our future initiatives.
• Develop and implement learning frameworks to effectively anticipate and manage various project scenarios.
• Offer strategic oversight with an “eagle eye view” to ensure the team maintains a broad, impactful perspective.

1. Project Planning & Delivery:

• Collaborate with product managers and designers to clearly define and achieve milestones on our product roadmap.
• Drive project breakdowns and estimations, ensuring clarity and accuracy.
• Guide the team towards delivering high-standard projects on schedule.

1. Mentorship & Team Support:

• Dedicate time to mentor and develop team members, supporting their professional growth and enhancing team capabilities.
• Lead the design of scalable, maintainable, and high-quality architectural solutions, aligning with industry best practices.
• Mentor the team in these practices to enhance our software systems significantly

1. Culture of Openness & Continuous Improvement:

• Stay ahead of emerging technologies and trends, bringing innovative ideas that propel our practices and inspire your colleagues.
• Foster an environment rich in open communication and constructive feedback, driving continuous organizational and personal growth.
• Challenge the conventional, continually advocating for higher standards.

What you need to bring

1. Demonstrable and deep experience in architecting and developing complex web applications and outstanding debugging skills. While specializing in frontend technologies, you should also be conversant with various technologies across the stack. Engineers typically gather this breadth and depth of experience over a period of 8+ years.
2. Proficiency in Programming Languages: Expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript and a strong understanding of frameworks like React.
3. Front-End Development: Deep knowledge of modern front-end technologies, including HTML, CSS, React, and redux(with redux-sagas preferably). Strong in debugging and handling complex logic.
4. Testing and Debugging: Strong skills in writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests using frameworks like Jest, Cypress, etc.
5. Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools.

About us
Appsmith is an open-source low-code application platform that simplifies custom application development for businesses, allowing them to streamline operations, automate processes, quickly integrate multiple apps and data, and enhance legacy applications with new features. Unlike traditional low-code platforms, the Appsmith platform is lightweight, extremely developer-friendly, and designed to fully integrate within modern SDLC processes.

Appsmith easily connects to a wide range of databases, APIs, and SaaS applications, and provides drag-and-drop UI building tools that are 10x faster than UI development using Angular or React frameworks. Appsmith pairs low-code speed with full-code flexibility and control. Developers can customize business logic, data sources, and UI elements using JavaScript, import their own JavaScript libraries, and manage code in a centralized IDE.

Appsmith allows full-stack and backend developers, systems administrators, and data teams to quickly build highly-functional dashboards, admin panels, customer 360, IT automation, and service management tools that span multiple data sources.