Frontend Engineer @ Pantheon

Company:

Pantheon powers the world's professional websites. Our multi-tenant, container-based cloud platform enables businesses to run mission-critical Drupal & WordPress websites. Developers, Marketers and IT can instantly scale in response to unplanned traffic spikes, without upgrading VMs or clusters. Large enterprises use Pantheon, including Intel, Cisco, Arizona State University, and the United Nations.

We value teamwork, humor and hard work balanced with solid social time together. We're enthusiastic participants in several open-source communities, and have real relationships with many of our most active customers and that's where you come in.

Role:

Pantheon is currently looking for a motivated, proactive and energetic individual to join the company's engineering team as a full-time employee who thrives in the confluence of interface design and frontend software engineering.

You will:

Collaborate on a small team that brings together product, design and engineering expertise to create and implement awesome, efficient user experiences. This will require your previous experience orchestrating Javascript, HTML, CSS and APIs to meet product requirements, achieve design goals and strive for technical excellence.

Generally you’ll get to:

• work on the development of new and evolving user-facing features
• establish reusable code, libraries and patterns
• ensure the technical feasibility of product requirements and interface designs
• optimize and solve client-side concerns for durability, speed and scalability
• work cross-functionally to share architecture, evolve engineering standards, introduce testing approaches, mentor peers and celebrate our wins.
• support production operations and provide engineering level insight on platform issues.

Specifically you will have opportunities to:

• implement mission-critical user controls for a complex hosting platform
• deliver cloud-based development environments and tools for professional web teams
• build user interfaces for the web and command-line power tools
• tackle challenges in building real-time interfaces for teams working in parallel

Want to grow?

Engineering at Pantheon operates in small mission focused teams that are tasked with large business problems and armed with a fully capable set of engineering skills. They dig in, understand the problem and find the optimal path to success. In this team you will have the opportunity to contribute at all levels of the stack -- stretch and grow your professional experience in many areas.

We’ve got depth and breadth across the technologies we use to run the Pantheon platform at scale. You’ll have many opportunities to pickup and apply new skills and gain professional experience with some of our existing use of Cassandra, MySQL, Redis, Backbone, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Golang, C, Chef, Amazon SWF, Amazon S3, Kubernetes, Docker, CircleCI, and more.

Our ideal candidate has:

• 3-5 years of front-end web application development experience
• Knowledge of at least one modern JavaScript frameworks (like Backbone, Angular, React, etc.)
• Built, maintained and iterated on web applications and APIs
• Used effective product development strategies like DDD, BDD, TDD, or others
• Experience with Unit, Functional, Integration and End-to-End testing strategies
• Used front-end build pipeline tooling such as NPM, Bower, Grunt, Gulp, or SASS
• A passion for working collaboratively, with different teams, on different parts of the product
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Bonus Points For:

• Full-stack development experience
• Front-end performance profiling and optimization
• Familiarity with good system design patterns and distributed architectures
• Taking on difficult challenges with teammates
• Strong opinions weakly held
• Open Source contributions
• Drupal and/or WordPress development experience

What’s in it for you

We have all the usual perks and benefits but what we can really offer you is a fantastic work environment powered by an amazing team.

Pantheon's Engineering team contributes to many Open Source projects, including Fedora, Systemd, Sensu, and Drupal. Our core mission is based on Open Source Content Management Systems, and our stack is built upon Open Source. See more about our contributions athttps://getpantheon.com/opensource

Oh yeah...here are a few other things we offer as well:

* Industry competitive salary.

* Stock options.

* Vacation days and time off.

* Full medical coverage (medical, dental, vision).

* Top-of-line equipment.

* Fun at Drupal community events.

* Discounts on custom bicycles - the founders of Pantheon also Founded Mission Bicycle.

* Dog friendly office.

* Training stipend to attend industry conferences.

* Fully stocked kitchen with lunches provided.

Notes:

* This is a full time onsite position at our offices in San Francisco, CA.

* We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.