Frontend Architect

LastPass is looking for a Frontend Architect (Principal Software Engineer):

Help us define, architect, and build the applications and infrastructure that secure the digital lives of tens of millions. Join the LastPass Architecture team and contribute to creating the foundation that empowers our engineers to do their best work.

What we build has a scale and impact that is hard to find anywhere else. In this role, you will collaborate with peers and teams across the globe, working on a product loved by millions. Your contributions will help protect users and ensure their online lives remain secure.

If you are passionate about complex problem solving and motivated by scale, then this is the role for you!

Who will you work with?

We are a small team reporting directly to the CTO. You will collaborate with technical leaders and members of the architecture team to ensure that all solutions are built on solid foundations, using the right and proven technologies, sound design principles, and appropriate non-functional requirements such as performance, availability, maintainability, reliability, and security. You will also participate in discussions to provide business justification for engineering needs with various stakeholders.

The architect role is a service-oriented position, and success is measured by the ability to help other individuals and teams succeed in their respective projects.

What are some of the exciting challenges you will be working on?

• As a Frontend Software Architect, you will be responsible for designated areas of the architecture in our LastPass product, particularly around client-side technologies. You are expected to take ownership by gaining a deep understanding of these areas, documenting them, and establishing and maintaining the architectural vision and future goals.
• Build consensus around architectural principles and clarify these principles when necessary.
• Help coordinate architectural developments both within and outside of the application domain by conducting early reviews of deliverables, producing recommendations, and providing guidelines and best practices.
• Ensure architectural direction and governance are aligned with business, product, and technology strategies, as well as industry best practices.
• Participate in solution design for new initiatives by outlining high-level solutions.
• Identify refactoring activities needed to address technical debt, and improve performance, scalability, availability, reliability, and security.
• Conceptualize and experiment with alternative architectural approaches.

What does it take to work at LastPass?

• Leading complex initiatives to modernize the LastPass web and endpoint applications within an evolving organization.
• Designing innovative solutions that balance business continuity with enhanced user experience.
• Proficiency in JavaScript development frameworks such as React and Redux, using TypeScript, or experience in mobile development.
• Familiarity with microfrontend technologies.
• Experience in designing and delivering high-throughput transactional systems.
• Being a strong team player who actively offers support and regularly shares knowledge with colleagues.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and architectural experience in software development.
• A solid understanding of scalability, high availability, and concurrency patterns in distributed systems.
• Flexibility and creativity in solution design, including the ability to leverage emerging technologies.
• The ability to communicate and apply common architectural design patterns across a wide range of technical challenges.
• Excellent communication skills - spoken, written, and in presentations - with the ability to convey ideas to both technical and business audiences and resolve conflicts among stakeholders.