Senior UI Engineer, HeadSpin
Digital experience AI platform
Open for applications
Digital experience AI platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help businesses deliver "perfect digital experiences".
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced UI Principal Engineer to become a part of our dynamic team
- Technical Expertise
- Core Technologies - Proficient in Vue/AngularJS, Python for backend
- API Integration - Skilled in working with RESTful APIs and JSON data structures
- Development Practices - Expertise in Responsive Design, Mobile-First Development, and ensuring Cross-Browser Compatibility
- Testing - Familiarity with Unit Testing, Integration Testing and Performance Testing tools and methodologies
- Methodologies - Experience working within Agile and Scrum frameworks, and with containerization and CI/CD pipelines
- Tools & Platforms - Proficient in using Git, GitHub/GitLab, Jira, Postman, and Firebase
- Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Minimum of 8 years of professional front-end development experience, including at least 5 years in a senior capacity
- Solid understanding of modern web development principles and best practices
- Excellent problem-solving and interpersonal communication skills
What the job involves
- In this role, you will be working on the design, development, and ongoing maintenance of our responsive and scalable web applications with our current UI team
- You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, contribute to our technical strategy, and significantly influence our front-end architecture
- A UI Principal Engineer bridges the gap between design and technical implementation, ensuring a user-friendly and visually appealing interface
- Creating and implementing user interface components, translating UI/UX design wireframes into code, and ensuring a consistent and intuitive user experience
- Technically driving and mentoring a team of UI developers, providing guidance, feedback, and support throughout the design and development process
- Conducting design reviews, performing QA checks, and ensuring the final product meets high-quality standards and design vision
- Contributing to the overall solution architecture and design, ensuring that UI components integrate effectively with the larger application
- Participating in agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives
- Creating and maintaining documentation for UI components and design decisions
- Optimizing applications for maximum speed, scalability, and responsiveness
- Take the lead in modernizing and improving our existing legacy systems to meet current performance and usability expectations
Our take
Organizations needed a global testing, performance monitoring, and QoE management platform in order to assure optimal digital experiences across mobile and web delivery channels. US-based HeadSpin came in and offered this service for development, QA, product, and operations teams around the world.
HeadSpin is a software-testing platform that allows users to test and debug mobile, web, audio, and video applications remotely on devices located worldwide. Since being conceived, the platform’s on-prem and cloud-hosted global device infrastructure has been expanded to test various applications in real-time.
The company is now trusted by thousands of enterprise customers, including Microsoft, TikTok, Yahoo, Uber, AirBnB, and so on. It took advantage of the market opportunity as more enterprises transitioned to provide higher-quality digital and mobile experiences. It continues to invest capital into developing new product offerings and further into synthetic observability.
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Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Feb 2020
$60m
SERIES C
Oct 2018
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $104.7m
Company HQ
Sunnyvale, CA
Leadership
Brien Colwell
(Advisor)Previously served as CTO for HeadSpin and founded Nextop.io. Experience as a Software Engineer for Talko and Quora.
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