Position: Interface Engineer
Company: Art2Hire
Category: JavaScript
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Our client -  a Silicon Valley - based company who building an intelligent code discovery platform is now looking for an Interface Engineer. 

Location: San Francisco, CA
Type: Remote, full-time
Start date: ASAP
About company:

The company is building an intelligent code discovery platform that provides the best tools for developers to discover code in any form—and benefit through contextual insights, recognition, and greater productivity. They are transforming code search to improve modern programming practice—using a graph-based approach drawing on data from the entire open-source ecosystem and having a mission to build the world’s best code discovery engine. The company was founded by top investors in Silicon Valley, including the first investors of Google, Twitter, Zoom, Linked In, and Uber. Our team has backgrounds from NASA, LinkedIn, Facebook, Amazon, AWS, Cisco and MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and Berkeley. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, they are building a globally distributed, all-remote world-class team.

About role:

Now the company is looking for an Interface Engineer to lead technology development on the frontier of code discovery and developer productivity. A successful applicant is an expert in web application development—a wizard in the browser with deep knowledge of the presentation layer. You will lead the development and deployment of multiple products and services using our core technology. You will write APIs, browser extensions, IDE integrations, bots and webhooks across services. You will build interfaces that visualize rich data insights that improve developer productivity.

The ideal candidate is excited to build developer tools. You could be a full-stack engineer and touch every aspect of the system. However, you prefer to engineer the interface. You are a world-class expert building and deploying interfaces and products that developers love to use

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Develop and deploy breakthrough user experiences within web and native environments
Design and build unique user interactions to be consistent across web, IDE, and CLI environments
Design and deliver APIs that are a joy to use as a developer
Code anywhere in our stack, taking ownership and responsibility for the presentation layer
Relentlessly measure and improve application performance, responsiveness, and testing
Obsess over implementation details related to appearance and behavior of every user interaction
Push the boundaries of what is possible to extend and integrate into existing developer workflows
Review code, mentor other engineers and support the team
Attract, recruit and retain top talent
Requirements:
Expertise in JavaScript (React, Node.js), TypeScript, GraphQL
Expertise deploying solutions in an Agile/DevOps CI/CD environment
Expertise with browser technologies and developer tools
Experience developing across clients, including web, IDE, browser extensions, CLI
Expertise in unit, integration and end-to-end testing
English - Upper Intermediate
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor’s or Master's degree in computer science or related technical field
8+ years of professional software engineering experience
Knowledge of image authoring tools
Experience in platform development to solve complex business problems at scale
Knowledge of event based systems development
Knowledge of relational databases and SQL
The Company Offer:

You have the opportunity to join an early-stage startup and have significant ownership of technology
development. You will work at the highest level and collaborate with world-class colleagues, advisors and technical experts. The team is growing rapidly, and we hope you'll grow with us, too.
Competitive salary & equity packages
Unlimited vacation and sick leave
Strong remote work culture and esprit de corps