Senior Front-end Engineer (USA Remote)
Company: Turnitin
Location: Cleveland
Posted on: August 7, 2022
Job Description:
Company Description
Turnitin is a global SaaS company dedicated to ensuring the
integrity of education and research and supporting the development
of original thinking skills. As the academic and research landscape
evolves, Turnitin stays ahead of trends through advancements in
technology and deep partnerships with education leaders,
institutions, and practitioners. -Turnitin's proprietary content
databases - built over 20 years - provide an unparalleled
repository of 1+ billion student papers, best-in-class scholarly
content from top publishers in every major discipline and in dozens
of languages, and 70+ billion current and archived web pages. We
promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all assignment
types and subject areas so that educators can help students do
their best, original work
Job Description
Turnitin is looking for an experienced front-end engineer to help
us build user-facing applications used by millions of students,
teachers, and administrators. This is a high-impact role in which
you will:
- Collaborate cross-functionally with the Engineering, Product,
Quality Assurance, and Support teams
- Implement end-to-end solutions for Turnitin's next generation
of academic integrity products
- Break down large projects and features into independently
workable/shippable milestones and stories
- Write readable, testable, and maintainable code
- Contribute throughout the front-end stack, developing features
and reusable components for performant, accessible JavaScript
applications that enable users to submit, view, and interact with
documents they have written within the context of our integrity
products
- Make contributions to both the short- and long-term development
of our products and team processes
You should
- Be passionate about the software you build, and the way that
you build it. - We're a small, high-output, largely self-directed
team that prides itself on both the quality of the code we produce
and on our commitment to improving our processes along the
way.
- Be opinionated enough to speak up when you think we could be
doing something better than we're doing it now -- and tactful and
empathetic enough to communicate this in a way that brings people
along instead of distancing them.
- Be curious enough to try new approaches to problems, in code,
architecture, and organizational matters. - Don't be afraid to try
something that doesn't work, or doesn't work as well as you might
like - but also know when to quit.
- Be self-directed enough to seek out and understand not just the
'what' of what we're building, but also the reason we're building
it - who is it for, how does it help them - and be informed by this
knowledge to make your own decisions, large and small.
- Be a proactive communicator - both to teammates and our
collaborators from other engineering teams, product, customer
support, sales, you get the picture. - Our work impacts a lot of
people, and there are a lot of stakeholders who need to maintain
context alongside us as progress / decisions are made.
- Be practical enough to strike a balance between doing things
'perfectly' and doing things 'well enough to ship'. - That is, you
should know what an ideal project or application looks like, and
also know when diminishing returns get in the way of bringing a
better experience to our users.
- Be well-versed in understanding large feature requests and
breaking them down into smaller, more manageable chunks of
independently shippable work - - and helping to organize the team
to collaborate on working together or in parallel to get them
done.
Qualifications
- 5+ years professional software engineering experience, at least
4 years working with modern JavaScript frameworks (including React)
-developing scalable, performant applications
- Be well-versed in best practices in writing efficient,
understandable CSS and accessible, standards-compliant HTML
- Understand front end performance
- Familiarity with current front end build systems (Webpack,
Rollup)
- Well-versed in writing and running unit- and integration tests.
-
- Using Git as part of a collaborative team, including branching,
pull request, and code review processes
- Accustomed to iterative development practices - breaking
problems down, shipping small pieces rather than long-running
features, etc. -
- Ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally
and in writing
Nice to haves
- Automation (Jenkins or other CI/CD)
- Experience working with Typescript
- Experience in working with geographically distributed teams
including the USA
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Additional Information
No agency submissions -
Turnitin, LLC is committed to the policy that all persons have
equal access to its programs, facilities and employment without
regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, age, gender,
sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, creed,
disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital or
veterans status.
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