Principal/ Architect Frontend Engineer

ClickUp is the breakout momentum leader in every G2 category we’re in and ready to take off! Our app is the first of its kind to work for everyone from families to Fortune 500 companies. ClickUp is looking for passionate and dedicated engineers to help us scale and support our growing platform. You’ll be joining the team powering everything happening behind the scenes.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for setting the overall vision for our frontend application, and enforcing standards around frontend software development. Our work involves solving complex issues for large-scale product development — with high quality, optimal performance and enterprise-grade security. You will be working closely with the product team, graphical designers, backend engineers, and quality assurance team to provide a world-class software platform empowering ClickUp. 

We need somebody who understands challenges of rapid growth startups. You will have to be able to express your philosophy and ideas to both technical and non-technical audience. Ideally, you have worked in pure full stack roles and understand intricacies of building out scalable microservices and microfrontends.

Responsibilities:

• Envision, develop, and enforce the global architecture for our frontend application
• Contribute clean code that follows strict typing rules and modern patterns
• Provide technical know how and expertise to other engineering teams and organizations
• Design and implement backend experience services to support frontend applications
• Participate in the frontend and backend architecture councils, creating and reviewing proposals, and working with teams to implement architectural changes
• Evaluate complex business requirements from the executive team, and translate those into actionable software items

Skills and Qualifications:

• 12+ years working experience on large-scale SaaS products
• Proficient with TypeScript and vanilla JavaScript
• Strong experiences in SOA, API best practices, and event based solutions
• Working knowledge in REST, gRPC, GraphQL, and WebSocket
• Experiences in persistence technologies such as relational, NoSQL, and in memory cache
• Proficient understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as SASS
• Excellent presentation and story-telling skills are a must
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability

Preferred Qualifications and Bonus Points:

• Expertise with various build and release management tools for the frontend stack
• Deep knowledge of performance optimization for complex frontend applications
• Modern development patterns knowledge, such as Micro Frontend Architecture.
• Experience using AWS technologies
• Experience working in rapid-growth startups

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