Senior Front End Software Engineer, UI Platform

At VideoAmp, we believe that Engineering is more than just executing on requirements or delivering against a roadmap, but about inspiring a group of creative thinkers to solve challenges that other companies would shy away from because “they are too risky”.

Our Core Values: Embrace Wellness, Create Trust, Make it Fun, Figure it Out, Be a Legend, Ship it Fast, Grow Exponentially, Do More with Less

As such, we are looking for a Senior Front End Engineer who can inspire by challenging paradigms and delivering quality software solutions to our customers that usher in a “new era” of advertising.

The Senior Front End Engineer will be responsible for enhancing the UI and UX of our Platform. You will be responsible for developing front-end applications, evolving our data visualizations and design system, supporting and improving our internal style guide, and maintaining our React-based component library. We work closely with engineering, design, product, and marketing teams to support the implementation of user interfaces for our web applications and websites.

You will be combining your expertise in engineering and design into a single discipline to develop, prototype, and test innovative UI solutions. The ideal candidate will have experience building out code-based design systems, writing maintainable and scalable CSS, and be passionate about always improving the user experience of customers. You will push the envelope on front-end engineering and inspire engineering teams and leaders to invest in new ideas.

Los Angeles or Remote friendly!

Responsibilities:

• Design and Build new web-based applications
• Assist the squad in a cross-functional set of skills in order to deliver the sprint's objectives
• Build interactive, responsive web applications using React / TypeScript
• Build a scalable code-based design system.
• Inform the design process with opportunities and challenges presented by the medium.
• Develop and extend our internal component library.
• Help assess the technical impact of design decisions, and ensure that less impactful options that can achieve the same design intent are considered.
• Integrate with testing services for unit, functional, and scalability testing
• Develop and release using agile methodologies
• Capable of embodying the team’s cultural values
• Change the way fortune 500 advertisers buy their media across the top 10 media owners in the USA, by delivering new products
• Inspire a team of critical thinkers and entrepreneurs, through mentoring and guidance
• Never yield on quality or our standards -> Obsess about maximizing the ratio of input to output
• Understand/contribute to all of our business context around revenue targets, customer value goals, strategic vision and articulate these to your direct teams
• Liaise with cross-functional leadership and executives to present gaps and solutions to our strategy
• Collaborate with your team and peers in ways that help lift them all to new heights

Qualifications:

• Knows the pains of the customer, through various previous experiences and hands on to inspire and coach the team
• Delivers robust software solutions incrementally thinking about ROI at all times
• Have experience leading and managing a cross-functional engineering team
• Creative, self-­motivated, independent, and a good communicator
• Experience developing user-facing features or developer tools on the web.
• Strong JavaScript skills. Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling, and debugging JavaScript issues.
• Strong experience in writing reliable, maintainable, and powerful code that may be used by many other people.
• Enthusiasm for collaborating with a diverse array of partners, including product managers, designers, and engineers across a variety of platforms.
• Experience with component-based architecture and development.
• Experience writing maintainable and scalable CSS, with familiarity in architecture and methodologies like OOCSS, BEM, Functional CSS, or other.
• Providing effective code reviews and peer support.
• Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities.
• Experience with responsive user interfaces and data visualization.
• Experience with application frameworks (React, Angular, Vue).
• Web development experience, including JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and Canvas.
• Strong grasp of web accessibility standards.
• Authorized to work in the US

Perks:

• Unlimited paid time off each year
• Company-sponsored health, dental and vision benefits for you and your dependents
• Annual vacation and childcare stipends
• Access to state-of-the-art fitness classes and personal trainers to promote your well-being. Live and recorded virtual workout classes every day + weekly yoga/pilates/wellness opportunities
• Quarterly fitness challenges
• Work from home set up provided
• 1:1 Nutrition/Food program options
• Partnership with DoorDash for meal deliveries
• Wellness (Financial Wellness, Modern Health)
• Employee Advisory Groups / Proactive Social Groups
• Pet Funds + Pet Care Savings
• 401k Plan
• Everyday discounts
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Referral Bonus
• Progressive approach to paid parental leave
• Epic personal and professional growth opportunities

About:

We believe every human on the planet should have the option of free access to the world’s information and content. In many cases, this belief is powered by a three-way value exchange between a publisher producing free content, a consumer consuming it, and an advertiser paying the publisher for the chance to connect with its audience. The underpinning of this value exchange relies on having independent auditing, measurement, and optimization layer to power the transaction between the advertiser and publisher.

Today the industry standard tools for advertising and media measurement and optimization are usually designed where increased personalization, higher advertising return on investment, and increased publisher revenues often come with negative trade-offs for consumer privacy or security risks of leaking private data. We envision a world where this doesn't have to be the case - a world where consumer privacy, security, and governance are incorporated into the fabric of the codebase while enabling the necessary business use-cases to effectively keep the world’s information and content free for everyone.

VideoAmp’s mission is to create software and data solutions to enable advertisers to accurately measure and optimize their entire portfolio of linear TV, OTT, digital and walled garden investments while empowering publishers to effectively align and monetize their audiences with the advertiser’s desired outcome in a consumer-first privacy paradigm.