Principal Frontend Engineer

The Role:

We are looking for self-motivated engineers with a passion for our business and for technology innovation. We look for individuals with deep knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML who are comfortable writing custom JavaScript but also know when to apply off-the-shelf solutions for the problem. We also value people who are advocates for user experience and seek to get the little details right. We currently work with TypeScript, React, and Next.js, but the ability to adapt to changing technology is an important strength. You believe in leaving things better than you found it - whether that be a piece of code, a jira ticket, or the new team you’re joining. We have a #NoEgo philosophy, so we love to collaborate and learn from each other together to come up with the best solution.

Our team includes people of all genders, sexual orientation, parents, the self-taught, the university-educated, and people of a wide variety of nationalities, ages, and socio-economic backgrounds. Diverse teams are strong teams, and we encourage those with varied identities, backgrounds, and experiences to apply.

Responsibilities:

• Design and adopt standards and practices moving our Industry to the next level.
• Writing asynchronous code that interacts with real time content.
• Lead with empathy and mentor a diverse team of engineers with different skill sets and help them grow as engineers.
• Working with multiple stakeholders, understanding their concerns and helping drive and prioritize the best results for our customers across the department.
• Experiment, iterate and propose solutions to our most difficult technical challenges

About you:

• Up to date with modern JavaScript practices, including reactive design and state management.
• You have experience leading incremental adoption of new technologies and standards.
• Full understanding of the DOM, client side performance and browser compatibilities
• Great interpersonal and communication skills.
• You are experienced in at least one strongly typed language.
• You have experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for front end applications.
• T-shaped, must have capability across the entire stack and expertise in your area.

Preferred:

• Expertise in React.JS and Redux
• Previous experience with video, WebRTC, or other streaming protocols
• Experience building NPM libraries
• Experience with Module Federation, Lerna based monorepos, and Webpack 5
• Expertise with developing backend systems

The Offer:

• Competitive salary
• Fully remote, global team
• Flexible schedules
• Laptop assigned, Mac or Dell (Windows)
• $800 USD for Home-Office set up
• $1500 USD for Learning & Development

At Hopin, we're committed to cultivating an environment that promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion. We are a global community and we believe our unique qualities must be celebrated as they are critical to our innovation. It's essential to us that you bring your authentic self to work every single day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, neurodiversity, or otherwise. Inclusion isn't just an initiative at Hopin. We strive to embed it not just into our core values but throughout our entire ecosystem.