Senior Front End Engineer

Senior Front End Software Engineer, Content Cloud Engineering

Location: India Remote

Acquia is an open source digital experience company. We provide the world's most ambitious brands with technology that allows them to embrace innovation and create customer moments that matter. At Acquia we believe in the power of community and collaboration - giving our customers the freedom to build tomorrow on their terms.

Headquartered in Boston, we have been named as one of North America’s fastest growing software companies as reported by Deloitte and Inc. Magazine, and have been rated a leader by the analyst community and named one of the Best Places to Work by the Boston Business Journal. We are Acquia. We are building for the future of the web, and we want you to be a part of it.

The Content Solutions Engineering team at Acquia is responsible for building and maintaining the combined Acquia DAM (Digital Asset Management) and PIM (Product Information Management) product line, which is used by over 800 customers worldwide.

Acquia is seeking a Senior Front End Software Engineer to implement modern, user-centric applications, in a fast-paced software environment. We thrive on innovation, collaboration, and an agile mindset and processes. Our current software portfolio consists of SaaS applications that handle graphic and video content, product information, and analytics.

Our competitive market landscape drives us to adopt technologies that allow for high developer involvement and productivity, as well as instant feedback loops. Our technology stack and tools include React, Typescript, GitHub, Java, Groovy, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Docker, AWS, Slack, and JIRA, just to name a few.

As a Senior Front End Software Engineer, you will…

• Work in a collaborative environment with US and India based front and back-end engineers, designers, product managers, and product owners.
• Availability to support collaboration between US CST and PST Time Zones.
• Write quality, maintainable, and testable code using front-end best practices
• Give and receive feedback as a collaborative member of your team
• Complete code reviews, and have your code reviewed
• Participate in the agile development process through technical discussions, daily stand-up meetings, code demos, and retrospectives
• Recommend tools, techniques, and processes to continuously improve the front-end platform
• Work with the User Experience (UX) team to ensure technical feasibility and visual consistency
• Work with the Front End Team Members to contribute to a shared component pattern library, and keep frontend tooling and build process up to date

You’ll enjoy this role if you…

• Have a passion for quickly adopting new technologies
• Are willing to learn from others and teach your peers
• Enjoy improving the developer experience
• Understand that the user experience is just as important as decisions made in the codebase
• Possess strong problem-solving abilities and can work independently as well as collaboratively

What you’ll need to be successful…

• 3-5+ years of relevant software development experience
• Expertise with HTML5 and CSS skills
• Strong Experience with React.JS/Typescript
• Solid understanding of modern JavaScript frameworks and related technologies
• Experience writing unit tests and contributing to automated tests (Jest, Playwright)
• Experience with modern, and accessible, responsive web applications
• Experience architecting modular components for code reuse (Federated Modules, Component Libraries)
• Experience working with RESTful APIs in a containerized microservice ecosystem
• Experience with Git
• Proficiency with frontend tooling and the build process: builds, linting, deployment, testing
• Ability to mediate between the UX team's vision, the Sprint Team's project scope, technology performance, and coordinate Frontend requirements with Backend Developers.
• Ability to develop well-structured responsive, cross-browser compatible, and performant code
• Ability to participate in frontend and backend architecture discussions
• Ability to empathize with your users and help create accessible, inclusive experiences
• Track record of picking up new technologies and skills quickly

Extra credit for…

• Experience working on a US-India collaborative Development Team
• Experience with Playwright
• Experience with internationalization
• Experience with Relational Databases (MySql, Postgresql)
• Experience with GraphQL
• Experience with Webpack

Acquia is proud to provide best-in-class benefits to help our employees and their families maintain a healthy body and mind. Core Benefits include: competitive healthcare coverage, wellness programs, take it when you need it time off, parental leave, recognition programs, and much more!

Individuals seeking employment at Acquia are considered without regard to race, color, religion, caste, creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Whatever you answer will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter.