Lead Frontend Engineer, Sensei labs
1+ day a week in office
Enterprise orchestration software
Job no longer available
Enterprise orchestration software
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
1+ day a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
Sensei Labs' mission is to define the future of work by creating tools that maximize team members' potential and impact.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in Frontend Development: 7+ years of experience as a frontend engineer or in a similar role, with a strong emphasis on technical leadership
- Expertise in JavaScript Frameworks: Extensive experience with frontend frameworks such as React, Angular, or Web Components, with deep knowledge of the entire development lifecycle
- Performance and Security Focus: Proven experience in optimizing rendering performance for large-scale applications and ensuring security best practices in front-end development
- Cloud and API Knowledge: Solid experience with cloud-based environments and REST APIs, with a deep understanding of how front-end systems interact with back-end services
- Automated Testing and CI/CD: Experience in building and maintaining writing unit and integration tests and ensuring robust front-end testing practices
- Scalability and Modularity: Demonstrated ability to design and implement scalable frontend architectures with modular components and performance optimization techniques
- Proactive Problem Solver: Ability to work autonomously and make the right technical decisions to drive the business forward
Desirable
- Open-Source Contributions: A history of contributing to open-source projects or supporting the broader software engineering community
- Advanced Knowledge: Expertise in advanced front-end topics such as Webpack configuration, tree shaking, code splitting, and state management techniques
- Collaboration Skills: Strong ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Cloud and Infrastructure Understanding: Familiarity with cloud services such as GCP and Azure, an understanding of how front-end performance ties into cloud infrastructure and service scalability
What the job involves
- Leadership and Mentorship: Actively mentor and guide fellow engineers, creating opportunities for learning and growth. Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment that encourages open communication, embraces diverse perspectives, and promotes continuous improvement
- Architect and Implement Frontend Solutions: Design and build new frontend functionality that enhances our platform, focusing on modularity, scalability, and performance
- Optimize Frontend Performance: Diagnose and address performance bottlenecks, ensuring smooth and efficient operation across large-scale applications
- Improve Developer Experience: Implement new tools, libraries, and frameworks to improve developer productivity, simplify workflows, and increase the quality of the front-end codebase
- Enhance Security Measures: Ensure the frontend adheres to security best practices, protecting against common vulnerabilities such as XSS and CSRF
- Collaborate on System Architecture: Work with peers and major stakeholders to create and review technical designs, ensuring alignment between front-end and back-end systems
- Drive Frontend Standards: Advocate for and implement new technologies and approaches that optimize the efficiency and scalability of the frontend architecture
- Maintain High Code Quality: Regularly contribute to the front-end codebase, performing thorough code reviews to maintain high standards in code organization, simplicity, and readability
- Test Automation: Improve the front-end and UI testing infrastructure, ensuring robust automated testing and continuous integration pipelines for front-end deployments
- Enhance User Experience: Collaborate closely with product designers and other stakeholders to create front-end features that deliver a seamless user experience
- Scale and Optimize: Improve tooling and infrastructure for measuring and optimizing frontend performance in real-world scenarios
Our take
Sensei Labs is a tech-enabled collaborative work management platform. Its flagship platform, Conductor, brings together management solutions for data/KPI, collaborative, and project/portfolio work. The company’s target audience is ambitiously broad, too, covering healthcare, government services, finance, media, and almost everything in between.
It’s a good strategy if Sensei Labs can cater well to the different types of businesses. Cross-industry digital transformation efforts and the widespread adoption of tech have led to a flurry of management software startups, but these tend to be more tightly focused on particular functions or industries. A player who can integrate more features is likely to win out, purely in terms of practicality.
Having raised new capital, the company is now investing in accelerating growth and its product strategy. As part of this, Sensei Labs will be focusing on broadening its outreach to global enterprises and accelerating growth through funding.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jan 2021
$6.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $6.5m
Company benefits
- Tackle challenging problems: We’re solving tough challenges together, every day. Our customers are Fortune 1000 companies around the world, so our work has a positive impact on companies that you know and love, every day
- Flexibility: Our team has the freedom to set themselves up so that they’re set up for success and able to do their best work – making their day more productive and removing barriers
- Competitive compensation & benefits: We’re looking for exceptional talent to join our team and we set our compensation model fairly and in line with your expectations. Our benefits include health, dental, vision, and life insurance
- Hybrid work: We have team members all over the world who work from wherever they’re located. Come and spend time in our beautiful, downtown Toronto HQ when you want to and can, or work from home when you don’t. Our office is designed entirely around collaboration and our hybrid structure means those of us who can come get in to spend a day a week with their teams in person. Everything is set up for Teams meetings and we fully embrace hybrid attendance (and time zones!)
- We believe that your growth is our growth, so we invest in training that will further your skills, your career, and help you to grow at Sensei Labs. We also host catered Lunch and Learns to share best practices, new innovations, and bring inspiration to your day
Company values
- Selfless: Our steady growth creates an abundance of opportunity which we amplify by supporting each other in our career and personal development even over our individual selves
- Empathetic: We care deeply about our fellow Senseis as people, colleagues, and friends. We’re kind to them and take every opportunity to build camaraderie. We help each other with challenges and opportunities and are always sensitive to each other’s needs
- Nimble: We’re in a constantly changing environment that requires a strong bias to action. We prioritize remaining nimble and responsive over standard operating procedures and best practices
- Skilled: Sensei Labs is, at its heart, a team of people. Fortunately for us they are some of the smartest, most experienced, and highly skilled people in the world
- Entrepreneurial: Sensei Labs will be in startup mode for the rest of its life. Each day is day one and we are all entrepreneurs focused on building our business together!
- Integrity: We approach all of our decisions from a strong position of integrity and the unshakeable belief that we win when our partners, customers, and fellow Senseis also win
Company HQ
Downtown Toronto, Toronto, ON
Articles
Leadership
Jay Goldman
(CEO)Previously SVP of Innovation at Klick, before moving on to freelance as a UX and product marketing consultant, and co-authoring The Decoded Company.
D'Arcy Rittich
(CTO)Worked as a GSK Senior Application Developer, before moving on to hold various technical roles a Klick - eventually Chief Technical Strategist.
Benji Nadler
(President)Was the VP at Central-Epicure Food Products, before moving on to hold various positions, and ultimately SVP of Internal Operations, at Klick.
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