Principal Front End Engineer

In this role you’ll be responsible for helping drive the evolution of our mission critical business systems. You’ll take ownership of the development, design, testing strategy and standards of the  Warby Parker web application. You’ll also help establish best practices and guidance around all aspects of our technology in order to help build a best-in-class technology discipline. Think you’ve got the goods? Keep reading.

What you’ll do:

• Help build and design a roadmap for your engineering team to build highly scalable, observable, and reliable systems
• Drive the execution and delivery of this roadmap across the engineering organization, working closely with stakeholders, SREs and other principal engineers 
• Provide technical guidance and facilitate the process of engineering design reviews on migrations towards service-oriented architecture, changes to existing architecture, and making existing systems more scalable
• Build a metrics-driven operational culture helping build out our practices for KPI measurement and review as well as for logging, monitoring, alerting practices
• Propose and drive large improvements to business systems to achieve significant impact to our business 
• Mentor and coach other engineers to be help solve technical challenges and grow overall technical prowesses

Who you are:

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Expertise in domain-modeling and system design
• Deep technical experience with cloud providers, distributed systems, and service-oriented architecture
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence others
• Strong belief in accountability and holding engineering teams to high standards
• An expert in data modeling in one or more modern relational databases
• Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Able, willing, and just plain excited to learn new domains quickly
• Insatiably curious and passionate about innovation
• You are not on the Office of Inspector General’s List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE)

Extra credit:

• Direct involvement with open source software projects
• Optimizing the JavaScript performance of high-volume systems

Some benefits of working at Warby Parker for full-time employees:

• Health, vision, and dental insurance
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Flexible vacation policy
• Paid Holidays
• Retirement savings plan with a company match
• Parental leave (non-birthing parents included)
• Short-term disability
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Bereavement Support
• Optical Education Reimbursement
• Free eyewear
• And more (just ask!)

Warby Parker requires all newly hired in-person or hybrid employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by their start date. Warby Parker is an equal opportunity employer and will provide reasonable accommodation, as necessary with federal, state, or local law, to those individuals who are unable to be vaccinated.