143 applicants

Company

A Place for Mom · 4 days ago

Principal Engineer - Web Platform

New York, NY

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

$190K/yr - $220K/yr

14+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Leverage advanced UI engineering expertise and creative insights to drive strategic innovation, shaping and launching impactful new features, functionality, and products with a focus on high scalability and resilience.

Lead the architectural vision for cloud-native, service-oriented UI components and applications, designing systems that prioritize performance, maintainability, and adaptability for future growth.

Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to tackle complex application designs, championing code review and fostering a culture of continuous optimization and best practices.

Enable continuous deployment by championing quality engineering practices: linting, unit testing, e2e testing, pipeline automation.

Partner with and influence product and design teams to define, maintain, and evolve design system standards, setting a high bar for consistency, accessibility, and scalability across the organization.

Develop and maintain high-quality technical documentation and reference materials to guide, mentor, and inspire engineers at all levels, fostering a culture of knowledge-sharing and skill advancement.

Define and enforce engineering best practices, setting a technical direction and mentoring other engineers, including staff and senior engineers, to elevate the entire team's capabilities.

Proactively identify, diagnose, and resolve complex production issues across the UI and service layers, driving root-cause analysis and preventive action to maintain system stability and reliability.

Partner with project management to ensure timely delivery of high-quality project outcomes, prioritizing alignment with long-term engineering and business goals.

Lead mobile-first performance optimization efforts, with a rigorous focus on improving Core Web Vitals and enhancing the overall user experience.

Champion a deep understanding of the end-user experience, advocating for and crafting a visually and functionally beautiful web journey that aligns with business objectives and user needs.

Qualification

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JavaScriptTypeScriptReactNodeJSRelational DatabasesGQLMongoDBAgileDevOpsTechnical Documentation

Required

14+ years of engineering experience working with a Javascript/Typescript, React, and NodeJS tech stack

In-depth knowledge of front-end technologies, frameworks, and best practices.

Experience with leveraging relational databases in a scalable, efficient way; GQL and MongoDB preferred.

Thrives in a fast-paced environment while architecting dependable solutions that scale effectively

Role model and champion modern ways-of-working such as Agile, DevOps and related practices, actively participate in an engineering community.

Strong communication and 'storytelling' skills – ability to articulate a vision or concept in simple terms to a broad audience at every level.

Helps enable and establish services and products to take advantage of changing industry trends and opportunities

Is able to step back from a task and reassess size and complexity when appropriate

Takes ownership of the quality of the solution or feature being implemented

Demonstrates competent problem-solving skills (e.g. debugging, analysis and instrumentation) in a context beyond code they've written

Takes ownership of keeping technical documentation for their features up to date.

Benefits

401(k) plus match

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Vision Insurance

Paid Time Off

Company

A Place for Mom

Glassdoor

3.9

A Place for Mom is a for-profit senior care referral service providing information about senior housing and elder care providers.

Founded in 2000

Seattle, Washington, USA

501-1,000 employees

http://www.aplaceformom.com

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