Front End Engineer

Packet, a leading bare metal cloud provider, is looking for a Front End Engineer who will be charged with directing the design of a best in class user experience for our web and mobile interfaces. We need a Front End Engineer with experience in putting the customer first, backing decisions with research and an ability to think strategically, obsess about the details and implement with speed.

Collaboration, partnership and active stakeholder management is foundational to success in this role. Thriving in an evolving environment, working to drive innovation, and continuous improvement for efficiency and scalability is key. If you are a drive front end engineer and looking to help build out interfaces that will affect how the next generation of infrastructure and hardware is delivered to the world, join our team!

Learn more about us and our process here

Responsibilities:
In this position, you will be a senior member of a small, focused team building one of Packet’s many core services and offerings. You should relish working on a variety of languages and can comfortably jump between maintaining an existing service, to leading the charge on a new microservice. 
  • Deeply care about technology, your craft and about the success of your teammates and the company.  Have strong intrinsic motivators to help drive self-improvement.
  • Implement new features and optimize existing ones from draft to implementation 
  • Work closely with, and incorporate feedback from, product management, UX designers, customers, and other engineers
  • Build out components in an iterative and continuous deployed to production model.  
  • Believe in a DevOps culture where you care about how your service behaves and functions in production.   
  • Contribute on key technology decisions such as languages, frameworks, tooling needed to run in production and at scale.
  • Strive to be an embodiment of our core values and behaviors

Qualifications:

  • At least 2 years of professional experience developing and deploying production level services
  • Familiarity with SaaS products utilizing agile practices and frameworks such as Material Design and Angularjs.
  • Skilled in Angular and JavaScript and have an understanding of pragmatic technology choices
  • Knowledge on HTTP and REST
  • Excellent communication skills internally and externally
  • (Preferred) Experience with switching languages and/or frameworks
  • (Preferred) Understanding of data center, server and network infrastructure.

Our Core Behaviors:
  • Caring about your craft, company and teammates
  • Listen first, then collaborate
  • Give honest and continuous feedback
  • Seek learning and be uncomfortable
  • Take small purposeful steps

Languages / Tools / Processes We Use:
  • AngularJS, React
  • Figma, Material Design
  • Ruby on Rails, Golang, Python, Bash
  • Postgres, Prometheus, Logstash
  • Drone, Coveralls, Quay.io
  • Docker, Terraform, Rancher, Docker, Nomad, Saltstack, Vault, Consul
  • Slack, GitHub, Jira, Trello
  • NewRelic, Rollbar, Grafana, Kibana
  • (Near) Continuous, Aligned, Development and Deployment

About Packet
Packet is the leading bare metal automation platform for developers, which is available in 18 global locations and supports over 60,000 bare metal installs each month. In addition to its public cloud, the company offers a popular Private Deployment product targeted at SaaS companies and enterprises that want to take advantage of customized infrastructure with the automation and operational benefits of a public cloud.   
 
Packet’s combination of flexible bare metal automation and focus on carrier-grade networking features has positioned it at the center of the edge computing conversation. The company is rapidly expanding its edge computing presence with some 50 new sites under development. In a departure from the hyperscale cloud model, Packet is inviting physical and supply chain partners to participate in what is expected to be a highly disaggregated and rapidly expanding ecosystem.
 
Central to Packet’s vision is a rethinking of the infrastructure “last mile” for a world that features widely distributed, diverse and specialized hardware in a cloud consumption model. Packet is working directly with global suppliers to accelerate the availability of hardware innovation.


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