Sr. Front End Software Dev Engineer - AOL Mail

About the position

AOL is seeking exceptional engineers to join their team in creating innovative mail products for their popular email service. This role involves providing technical leadership, implementing best engineering practices, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance user experience. The position is critical to the long-term growth strategy of AOL Mail, which serves millions of users worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to engineers in a fast-paced environment
• Enforce design reviews, code reviews, continuous integration, and test-driven development
• Drive technical excellence and implementation of best engineering practices
• Lead hands-on implementation work to keep current with technology trends
• Build and deliver high-quality and high-performance features for users on the Web (Node.js/ReactJs)
• Collaborate with user experience designers, product managers, and other engineers to deliver new features, enhancements, platform improvements, and bug fixes
• Write testable, reliable code, continuously deploying to production systems
• Deploy, monitor, and operate large-scale production systems distributed across the globe
• Analyze and optimize application/platform code and/or APIs for efficiency and performance

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 6+ years of experience
• Strong foundation in Computer Science, with competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
• Strong command of responsive design and JavaScript frameworks such as React / Angular / Ember and Node.js
• Strong command of browser-side client technologies including AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript and object-oriented JavaScript
• Experience in software development domain and principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration, and deployment architecture
• Experience with Web Technologies (Node, HTTP, JSON, Webpack)
• Experience with test driven development, unit test / UI test frameworks such as Jest / Selenium / WebdriverIO / Puppeteer / Cypress is an added advantage
• Ability to work well with diverse groups of people, geographically dispersed across the world
• Good communicator, enjoys helping people, remains friendly and constructive under stress
• Strong grasp of OWASP security principles and how they apply to web applications

Nice-to-haves

• Experience developing mail applications
• Experience with mobile web development
• Experience with SCRUM or similar agile development methodology
• Familiar with frontend test driven development
• Experience with continuous integration (CI) frameworks such as Jenkins and Hudson
• Experience building accessible web applications

Benefits

• Healthcare
• 401K savings plan
• Company holidays
• Vacation
• Sick time
• Parental leave
• Employee assistance program