UI Developer

Introduction
The Instana Team Log Management team is looking for a Frontend Software Engineer to join our team in Kochi.
At Instana we process and analyse millions of spans traces metrics and events per second in order to provide actionable APM intelligence to our rapidly expanding customer base.
As part of a multi-functional team you’ll help expanding Instana’s log management platform. Your role will cover the whole software engineering life cycle from technical design to implementation quality assurance delivery to production as well as maintenance and customer support. If you’re interested it is also possible to support the designer of the team on requirements engineering tasks as well as in customer interviews. Together with your peers you’ll work on a Java based streaming backend which is connected via gRPC and leverages Dropwizard Kafka and Clickhouse mainly. In close collaboration with the two other logging platform teams you’ll contribute to create the best log management platform on the market for our customers.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a member of the Logging team your responsibilities will include:

• Collaborate with Product Management and implement feature roadmaps
• Work closely with the Design team
• Contribute to the Instana Frontend Community
• Leverage modern tools and techniques to develop clean efficient and reusable code.
• Review code and promote test automation
• Handle issues reported by our customers

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 3+ years of experience in React or similar frameworks
• Experience with UI Design best practices
• A good understanding of SPA architecture
• Experience with best practices in implementing reusable UI components
• Good code writing discipline and an eye for code efficiency
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving techniques
• Fluent in written and spoken English

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• TypeScript experience
• Experience with functional reactive programming paradigm ideally observables and react
• Experience working with UX concepts and design systems
• Experience working with chart frameworks