Senior Frontend Software Engineer, Confluent
$160.1-188.1k
+ Annual bonus + Equity package
Data streaming platform
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Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$160.1-188.1k
+ Annual bonus + Equity package
1001+ employees
Company mission
Founded by the team that built Apache Kafka, their mission is to make managing Kafka easy.
Role
Who you are
- Graduated from a Bachelor’s or Master’s 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
Desirable
- Experience with A/B testing methodologies
- Excellent cross-group collaboration skills
What the job involves
- We are looking for a seasoned Frontend Engineer for the Cloud Growth team
- We’re building compelling in-product experiences to help new users and organizations gain value quickly and become active customers of our Confluent Cloud offerings
- We heavily leverage A/B testing methods and data analysis. This fast-paced team has a direct impact on the business
- 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
Our take
Confluent is a commercial company built on top of the open-source Apache Kafka project. Confluent and Kafka have developed a streaming data technology that processes massive amounts of information in real-time.
The streaming database technology was developed at LinkedIn as a way of moving massive amounts of messages. The company decided to open-source that tech in 2011, and Confluent launched as the commercial arm in 2014.
While the base open-source component remains available for free download, it doesn’t include the additional tooling the company has built to make it easier for enterprises to use Kafka. Confluent's value add is in those additional tools, including a cloud version of the product and a marketplace for sharing extensions to the platform.
Confluent expanded strategic partnerships with Microsoft and acquired Immerok, and in 2023 expanded its cloud platform. 2024 saw further product expansions with the launch of the Confluent Migration Accelerator, all exemplifying how the company is living up to its name by rocket-boosting the benefits of Apache Kafka integration for companies.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
27% female employees
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2020
$250m
SERIES E
Jan 2019
$125m
SERIES D
Total funding: $455.9m
Company values
- Earn Our Customers' Love - Our customers are the lifeblood of our business and our most important stakeholder. We strive to earn their love with everything we do
- To Build a Great Company, Build a Great Team - We believe that an important part of building a great company is making sure that our employees are the best they can be.
- Smart, Humble, and Empathetic - Our employees appreciate, benefit, and learn from working with other smart, humble, and empathetic people. We strive to hire those who care deeply about others and interact with empathy towards our customers, partners, and employees.
- Be Fired up and Get It Done - As much as we benefit from working with smart, humble, and empathetic employees, we also need to “get it done” to pursue our enormous market opportunity. We are in hyper-growth mode and are scaling to fill the demands of the market and our current and future customers.
- Tasteful not Wasteful - We want to invest in areas that matter the most -- in other words, spend “tastefully,” not wastefully. We believe that thoughtful spending is essential to building a high-quality business.
- One Team - It is critical that we act as and make decisions as a unified company, doing our best to optimize globally rather than locally. This means doing our best to avoid the misalignments that some companies can be prone to. It means recognizing that when employees and teams succeed, Confluent as a whole succeeds.
Company HQ
Mountain View, California
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Leadership
Jay Kreps
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Principal Engineer at LinkedIn.
Neha Narkhede
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Previously a Lead Engineer at LinkedIn and Oracle. They are an Investor/advisor for Gem, Block Party, Material Security, Abacus AI, Cortex Data, Yugabyte, Metaphor Data, Natalist, Common Room, and more.
Jun Rao
(Co-Founder)Previously a Senior Engineer at LinkedIn. Has a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University.
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