Senior Engineer Frontend

Plexchat is seeking a senior engineer to help develop and ship a state ­of ­the ­art cross platform chat experience. Reporting to the CTO and working directly with the founders and other members of the technical staff and product designers, you will be architecting and authoring (possibly at times exotic) features for a continuously deployable client.

Responsibilities

• ­Author, debug, test, profile, optimize, and document well­ reasoned, tested, and mature application code in Javascript (latest ECMAScript standard)
• Articulate and identify engineering solutions and concerns with the art and product disciplines ­
• Compose well­ reasoned design documents for features that demand rigor ­
• Provide and receive feedback on designs and code from fellow engineers

Qualifications

• Fluency in Javascript including (and beyond) major features included since ES6 ­
• Proficiency in at least one language that is somewhat different from Javascript (non­prototypal inheritance, compiled, statically typed, etc)
• Experience with React.js and Mobx or demonstrated aptitude to ramp extremely quickly ­
• Experience with native development in a mobile or desktop platform ­
• Strong oral and written communication skills

Preferred

• Experience with traditional rendering and graphics pipelines (OpenGL, DirectX, Metal, Vulkan) ­
• Experience embedding Javascript or similar scripting language (Lua, Squirrel, etc) in a native application ­
• Experience with React Native
• Experience authoring networked real­time applications with a persistent connection

What We Offer

• Competitive Salary ­
• Attractive options packages with an upside ­
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage ­
• A flat organization with ownership over what you do ­
• Transparency. We’ll tell you what is going on.