Staff Developer (Frontend)

Staff Developer (Frontend)

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Remote Canada

Reporting To: Cory Thomas

Compensation: $129,800 - $194,700 / year

Description

Staff Developers at AgencyAnalytics are T-shaped, meaning they not only operate broadly at a high
level across technical areas but can also dive deep into specific areas and teams when needed.

As a Staff Developer you can expect to be brought into initiatives at the strategy and discovery phases to ideate on what’s possible. You’ll experiment and drive new, and changes to existing, system architectures. You’ll be a coach and mentor to our engineering team. Along with other Staff Developers and technical leaders, you’ll set the operating rhythm to balance high efficiency with high quality.

What you'll bring
● Along with other Staff developers, you’ll drive architectural changes across our products
● You can operate a different levels - from architect to hands-on development
● You’re good at seeing and planning beyond ‘the current project’
● You’re deeply experienced with software observability and have taught teams how to correctly monitor their products and services
● You’re determined to have a highly positive impact across engineering through up-levelling our team and focusing on the most important objectives 
● You know how to delegate to the right people at the right time
● You’ll work tightly with engineering and product leaders as peers
● Through code reviews and peer feedback, you advocate for high standards and look for ways to improve the overall quality of our codebase

Key Responsibilities

● Your time will be divided between leading cross-functional technical projects, building and
reviewing architectures on various teams, and coaching and mentoring our engineering team.
● You’ll be setting and driving coding standards, technical processes, and tooling across engineering
● You'll prioritize and work on multiple projects from start to finish, balancing quality, stability and project delivery.
● Through code reviews and mentoring you'll set a high quality bar. As well, you’ll actively look for ways to improve the overall quality of our codebase.
● You'll work across teams to promote an open, collaborative approach to architecture, technical patterns, and complex problem solving.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

● You have 8+ years of professional SaaS architecture and development experience, having lead teams to successful outcomes
● You have previously held a Staff Developer or higher level title
● You are hands-on. In this role you will be writing code, daily
● You have deep experience working closely with Backend engineers and UX/UI Designers to plan, design, and implement frontend system architectures and features
● You have deep experience with frontend performance best practices, tooling, and monitoring
● You’ve mastered React and Typescript and have mentored engineers in both
● You are an expert at translating company objectives into technical delivery milestones
● You set a high bar for quality and hold yourself and other engineers accountable to it
● You’re exceptional at unblocking engineering teams to keep things moving


Our Stack:
● Typescript, React, and Redux
● Modern PHP (PSR) + Laravel
● GCP Cloud SQL (MySQL), BigQuery, and Redis
● GCP Cloud Tasks and PubSub

Compensation

Our base salary for this role ranges from $129800- $194700 / year CAD. Compensation is determined by factors such as market salary data within Canada, technical skills, previous work history, and internal pay equity. Many positions also include additional variable compensation, which our Talent Acquisition team will discuss with you during the interview process. Apply