Job description
Our mission is to connect people to their passions. Our four online stores—Backcountry, Competitive Cyclist, MotoSport and, SteepandCheap—aim to supply our customers with the gear, knowledge, and inspiration necessary to get out there and chase down life’s greatest moments. We do this by providing the biggest and best assortment of premium outdoor products, superior shopping experience, personalized Gearhead expertise, lightning-fast and accurate fulfillment, and inspirational, informative, and community-centered content.
Backcountry is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Front End Engineer to join our team. As our Senior Front End Developer, you will enjoy working across the software stack to design, develop, and deploy engaging experiences for the web. You are empowered by CSC IQ to get to your next career stage!
What you’ll be doing:
- Apply the latest software design techniques and contribute to the technical design of new solutions.
- Write documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
- Proactively engage x-functional teams to align x-team efforts to deliver in minimal time.
- Advocate for business problems being solved in every story, and work to gain a deep understanding of the root problem so that the simplest solution can be identified.
- Continually invest in your own knowledge and skillset through training, reading, and attending conferences and meetups.
- Passion for unit and automated testing, modular designs, and shipping quality code
- Building robust alerting and monitoring for a stable environment
- Work closely with our Product and Design teams to develop new products and features.
- Participate in code reviews to ensure high code quality and set best practices.
- Participate in a full software development life cycle – requirements gathering, design, development, testing, deployment, documentation.
- Provide day-to-day software application support and related technical advice. Observing and monitoring your system in production.
- Mentor junior engineers and invest time in their development and learning
- Recommend architectural enhancements, and provide senior guidance to team members on best practices and optimization techniques
- Occasionally lead a small team of 2 or 3 engineers from project planning to completion
What you bring to this role:
- Bachelor in Computer Science or related discipline or equivalent.
- 5+ years of professional experience.
- Full professional proficiency in English.
- Experience working with Scrum Agile methodologies.
- Solid understanding of software development concepts, including object-oriented programming, design patterns, and algorithms.
- Experience on Cloud development in GCP or AWS.
- Strong problem-solving skills and meticulous attention to detail.
- Expertise with Relational Databases and SQL Queries
- Expertise with NoSQL / Document Oriented Database
- Expertise with Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD tools.
- Strong experience using React, JavaScript ES6/TypeScript
- Experience designing and building software in any of the different object oriented and dynamic languages such as Java.
- Open to critical feedback.
What’s in it for you?
- PTO
- Medical/Dental/Vision and a variety of supplemental policies available
- Company 401K match
- Company Health Spending Account (HSA) match
- Company provides group life insurance at no cost
- COBRA reimbursement for salaried employees until health insurance eligible
- Paid Holidays
- Birthday off with pay!
- Pet Insurance
- Generous employee discounts
What our interview process looks like:
- Depending on the position, our application and interview process may vary, but here are some of the ways we get to know you better:
- 📞 Step 1: Match most of the requirements and qualifications for the position? We want to chat. A recruiter will reach out to you via email to schedule some time to learn more about our company and get to know you better. Remember, you’re also interviewing us!
- 📝 Step 2: Our assessments (if applicable to the role) measure your analytical and business acumen. We use them to better understand your expertise. Each person interviewing for the same role receives the same assessment, which helps us evaluate candidates equally and consistently.
- 👩🏽💻Step 3: Virtual or in-person interviews depending on your location. Our hiring team will learn more about your prior experience and challenges you’ve faced. Be prepared with detailed examples. Concise and well-organized answers are ideal.
- ✍🏽 Step 4: Offer! This is where things get really exciting. We gather all data from your interviews and conduct a final review. If qualified for the position, your recruiter will connect with you via phone to present a verbal offer we know you’ll be excited about.
CSC Generation Holdings family of brands provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, state or local laws.
CSC Generation Holdings family of brands is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact [email protected].
