Staff Software Engineer, Phaidra

• The ideal candidate has solid prior experience in frontend development
• 5+ years of work experience
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Expertise in JavaScript, including modern features in recent ECMAScript editions
• Expertise in CSS3 (preferably with a pre-processing framework like SASS) & HTML5
• Expertise in React and TypeScript or a similar modern SPA framework
• Experience using RESTful APIs
• Experience with modern frontend build tools and pipelines
• Knowledge of best-practices and architectural patterns for modern frontend applications
• Knowledge of User Experience and Visual Design concepts
• Knowledge of WCAG
• Excellent communicator, written and verbal
• Share our company values: transparency, collaboration, operational excellence, ownership, and empathy
• Willingness to up-skill and offer ad-hoc support to our Backend team

Desirable

• Phaidra is looking for a driven Staff Software Engineer to be a part of our growing Product Engineering team
• In this role, you will lead a small team of frontend engineers who build our web-based self-serve product for industrial users. We are seeking an individual who is passionate about all things frontend, lives to deliver exceptional user experience and developer experience alike, and demonstrates an exemplary level of ownership and collaboration
• This role calls for someone who is always willing to help people within and outside of their team, believing that no problem is below them. This individual will lead the team from the front, establish best practices, and insist on the highest standards
• The Product Engineering team at Phaidra is responsible for building the tools and applications that our customers use to configure and monitor our AI-powered control systems
• Lead a small team of frontend engineers, providing technical direction, guidance, and support to ensure successful project delivery
• Contribute to the design and implementation of our frontend applications
• Set the team standards and mentor junior frontend engineers. Participate regularly in code reviews with peers and help develop a strong engineering culture around you
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers and provide insights from a frontend engineering perspective
• Convert designs and wire frames into high-quality pixel-perfect UI
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Solution Architects to intimately understand user requirements
• Collaborate with Backend Engineers to incorporate APIs
• Collaborate with Infrastructure Engineers to define the best Frontend infrastructure solutions
• Maintain high level of code and architecture documentation
• Our Stack
• Frontend
• React
• TypeScript
• React Testing Library
• Playwright
• Backend
• Go
• Python
• PyTorch
• REST & gRPC microservices
• Pantsbuild, uv
• Other
• Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform & Kapitan
• Gitlab CI, ArgoCD, Atlantis
• GCP - GKE, PubSub, CloudSQL, BigTable, Postgres, etc
• In your first 30 days..
• You will be immersed in an onboarding program that introduces you to Phaidra and our product
• You will spend time in the Engineering org, learning how the teams operate, interact, and approach problems
• You will read various parts of our handbook and familiarize yourself with the documentation culture at Phaidra
• You will set up your development environment and start working on an onboarding exercise that will introduce you to various parts of our code base
• You will learn about how we use agile and be able to navigate our sprint boards and backlogs
• You will learn about various team standards and development & release processes
• You will start to learn about our system architecture and infrastructure
• You will start picking up few good “first-tasks” to get yourself accustomed to the end to end release flow
• You will have started shadowing customer calls related to installing and managing deployments with customers
• By your first 60 days..
• You will have a solid understanding of what Phaidra does and how we do it
• You will have met with team members across Phaidra and started building relationships that will help you be successful at your job
• You will have completed the onboarding exercise and will be on your way to completing your first production task
• By your first 90 days..
• You will have been fully integrated in the team and with team members across the company
• You will get a more in-depth understanding of our system architecture and infrastructure
• You will have completed your first on-call experience helping monitor and improve our production environments
• You will have become an expert with our tooling
• You will have started to contribute to knowledge sharing throughout Phaidra

• All of our interviews are held via Google Meet, and an active camera connection is required
• Meeting with People Operations team member (30 minutes)
• Meeting with Hiring Manager (60 minutes)
• Technical Interview with a Software Engineering team member (60 minutes)
• Meeting with Product and Design Team Members (60 minutes)
• Culture fit interview with Phaidra’s co-founders (30 minutes)