Senior Front End Software Engineer

EdX is looking for a Frontend Software Engineer to join our Core Frontend team to help us change the face of education. Core Frontend empowers delivery teams to ship high-quality code through a combination of tools, infrastructure, and mentorship. Though our focus area is the frontend, we work across the entire stack, from open-source packages like our React component library and Bootstrap theme to package build and release automation.

Responsibilities:

• Help shape the direction of frontend architecture at edX within the company as well as the broader open-source community
• Collaborate with engineers across the company on best practices through code reviews, pair programming, and other feedback mechanisms
• Enable teams to work faster and better by partnering on difficult problems
• Contribute to our common pattern and component libraries used across edX web applications
• Identify and proactively solve problems that will improve and streamline our code base

Requirements:

• 3+ years frontend development experience
• Expert knowledge of modern JS (ES2015+) and its ecosystem
• Experience with frontend frameworks such as React, Vue, etc.
• Strong collaboration skills.

• Experience working in an agile development environment and distributed version control.

Plusses:

• Experience working with frontend build toolchains, including tools such as Webpack and Babel.
• Backend experience, especially Python.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
• Experience with universal/server-rendered or “serverless” frontends.
• Knowledge of frontend performance challenges and tradeoffs and experience profiling.
• Experience with CSS as well as dialects such as SASS and LESS.
• Contributor to or consumer of Open Source Frameworks.