Job Details

Location: Remote, United States

Employment Type: FullTime

Location Type: Remote

Department: Engineering

Compensation: $160.1K $188.1K Offers Equity

Disclaimer: At Confluent, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. We analyze and carefully consider several factors when determining compensation, including work history, education, professional experience, and location. The actual pay may vary depending on your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Confluent offers a wide range of employee benefits. To learn more about our benefits click here (

Overview

Were not just building better tech. Were rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesnt sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.

It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.

One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.

About the Role

We are looking for a seasoned Frontend Engineer for the Experience Architecture team. The Experience Architecture team ensures and maintains a cohesive, intuitive and streamlined user experience across Confluents cloud products by collaborating across product lines.

What You Will Do

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will build engaging and insightful products for managing and visualizing large scale distributed data streams, make data flow intuitive and attractive, and build client-side web applications for data-intensive applications.

• Build new features using advanced knowledge based on user requirements and make revisions to features based on feedback
• Build platform as a service (PaaS) product
• Take user requirements and vet the application program interface (API) contracts and user interface (UI) wireframes against them.
• Work with backend software engineers to understand the API contract and ensure the user experience is not degraded due to performance constraints from the backend APIs.
• Work with designers to understand and build components styling, from interactions to specification.
• Work with product managers to build a user experience.
• Build out a test plan and get sign-off from all stakeholders once development and testing has been completed.
• Write, monitor, and manage large scale system deployments.
• Triage Cloud incidents and monitor errors from Confluent's Javascript monitoring service.
• Triage bugs and troubleshoot production issues.
• Participate in the code review processes.
• Write tooling to improve day-to-day workflows.

What You Will Bring

• Graduated from a Bachelors or Masters program in Computer Science, or a related technical field with 3+ years of experience.
• Good knowledge of data structures and algorithms and proficiency in at least one of these languages: JavaScript, C, C++, Python, Go
• Self-motivated and able to drive projects with mentorship and project requirements
• Smart, humble, and empathetic and ability to work effectively in teams and strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ready to make an IMPACT -- Driven and excited about the challenges of a fast-paced, innovative, and quickly growing software development environment
• Interested in building large scale distributed systems
• Experience building web applications for applications
• Experience with JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Experience with React/Flux, modern js tooling (Gulp/Grunt)/Webpack/Babel
• Strong foundation in algorithms and application design

What Gives You an Edge

• Excellent cross-group collaboration skills
• Experience refactoring or migrating large code bases

Ready to build what's next? Lets get in motion.

Come As You Are

Belonging isnt a perk here. Its the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge whats possible.

Were proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment decisions are based on job-related criteria, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by law.