Junior Frontend Software Engineer

About the Role:

We are looking for a Frontend Software Engineer to join our awesome UI Foundations team. In your day to day, you will get your hands into deployment infrastructure, contribute to our Design System, improve our public documentation, and monitor and improve UI performance, among many other challenges. UI Foundations provides engineers at Confluent with the processes, tools, technologies, and guidance necessary to give our customers a consistent and exceptional UI experience. As a Frontend Software Engineer, you will be responsible for creating the fundamental blocks and providing 10x impact to the frontend of Confluent Cloud.

What You Will Do:

• Our Cloud UI stack is written in Typescript and built based on React.
• The UI connects to multiple REST and GraphQL APIs.
• We unit test our code with Jest.
• We deploy the UI to production every day, with the ability to test each and every commit in production (even PRs) before it goes live.
• Feature flags unblock us from coordinating releases with backend teams
• Bots keep all of our dependencies up to date

What You Will Bring:

• At least 1+ year of professional experience
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or similar field or equivalent
• Experience building client-side web applications for data-intensive applications
• Excellent understanding of modern JavaScript, typing in JS, HTML5, and CSS
• Experience with React/Flux (or equivalent), modern JavaScript tooling/Webpack/Babel
• Strong foundation in algorithms and application design
• Experience with writing/monitoring/managing large-scale system deployments