Senior Software Engineer

Position Overview

Seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help design, develop and drive the new LightBox suite of offerings into a fully integrated and consistent platform.

An ideal candidate will have a deep knowledge of React, TypeScript, new EcmaScript standards, NPM, Babel, Webpack and similar.

The initial responsibilities for this role will be to modify, design, and integrate React components into a variety of frontend frameworks.

This position will have opportunities to explore and recommend adoption of emerging tools.

Beyond technical proficiency, a candidate also needs strong interpersonal and communication skills.

This position is expected to interact with both technical and non-technical audiences, to mentor team members in new technologies and paradigms, and to contribute to the continuous improvement of systems and processes across LightBox

What you will do and achieve

• Participate in team activities such as design sessions, code reviews and sprint ceremonies.
• Serve as a mentor for engineers across the business.
• Adhere to best practices around versioning, automated testing, dependency management, system reliability, containerization, infrastructure-as-code, auto-scaling, data security, etc.
• Investigate and resolve technical and non-technical issues, resolving critical incidents in a timely manner and with a thorough root cause analysis.
• Contribute to LightBox’s technology strategy as a member of its architectural leadership team.

Who you are

Education

• B.S. in Computer Science (or equivalent)

Experience

• 4 or more years of experience in software engineering
• 3 or more years of experience in React

Knowledge & Skills

• Aptitude to build and integrate React components following best practices for reusability
• Strong TypeScript and JavaScript skills
• Ability to write and maintain HTML/CSS/JS
• Develop and debug within Docker Containers
• Knowledge of best practices consuming SOAP, RESTful and GraphQL APIs
• Experience using Github, Gitlab, and or BitBucket
• Understanding relational, graph and document databases systems
• Design and implement maintainable and testable software accompanied by automated tests – unit, integration, or end to end
• Modern practices around agile development, release management, continuous integration, and data security
• Computer science and software engineering fundamentals

Core Competencies

• Clearly communicate decision points, opportunities, and outcomes to senior leadership
• Exercise discretion and independent judgment on all projects and responsibilities
• Contribute to development of systems and software to meet team objectives.
• Mentor team members on technical and non-technical topics
• Stay up to date on emerging technologies, standards, and protocols

This job description is a general listing of the required tasks and expectations of the position and in no way implies that the duties listed above are the employee’s only responsibilities. The employee is expected to perform other tasks, responsibilities and training as instructed by their supervisors. Duties and responsibilities may change at any time with or without notice.

This position may require additional hours outside of the standard work schedule including occasional holiday, evening and/or weekend hours in order to meet deadlines or to accommodate customers.

LightBox and all its holding companies are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. It is the policy of the LightBox and its holding companies to prohibit discrimination of any type and to afford equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.

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