Senior Application Engineer

The Company

GitKraken is the developer experience (DevEx) platform of choice for more than 40 million developers and 100,000 organizations globally. Combining built-in AI and powerful workflow orchestration, GitKraken empowers development teams to eliminate unnecessary toil, streamline collaboration, and accelerate productivity. GitKraken’s seamless integrations with leading Git providers, issue tracking tools, and AI solutions make it the most versatile DevEx platform available across desktop, command line, IDE, web, and mobile environments. Discover smarter, faster development at www.gitkraken.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Application Engineer to join our GitKraken Desktop team. In this hands-on role, you will contribute to our flagship product and collaborate with our product team to craft beautiful, innovative user experiences with a focus on usability, cohesiveness, and accessibility, while ensuring modularity and performance in code. You’ll collaborate with back-end engineers to define and refine data models and APIs to ensure efficiency, security, and reliability. Our team is focused on creating innovative, user-friendly, and accessible tools and services that make a real difference in how developers and development teams collaborate and focus.

We are committed to having an inclusive and authentic work environment where unique perspectives, skills, and backgrounds are celebrated. We work hard to foster diversity in our workplace and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. Even if you don't meet 100% of the requirements, don't let self-filtering and imposter syndrome get in the way of a great fit. We would love to hear from you!

What you'll do

• Take ownership of features and enhancements, starting with helping to define technical and UX details with Product and QA, through collaborative implementation, code review, and ultimately to ongoing maintenance.
• Craft code patterns that are clear, maintainable, and adaptive to change.
• Identify and support opportunities to increase developer velocity through tactical and ongoing  modernization of our very large codebase.

What you'll bring

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering
• Deep understanding of modern web application architectures and design patterns, along with their tradeoffs
• Expertise in the web platform: HTML, CSS, web APIs, etc.
• Experience building modular, composable UI components with libraries or Web Components (React , Vue, Lit, FAST) backed by state management (Redux, Jotai, MobX)
• Highly proficient with Javascript/TypeScript including ES6, Node.js, and NPM or Yarn
• Strong history of collaborating with designers and providing input on the user experience
• Experience migrating to new technologies as the web evolves
• Understanding of accessibility practices (WCAG, WAI-ARIA)
• Proficient with front-end tooling such as CSS processors (LESS, SASS, or PostCSS), bundling tools (Webpack and esbuild), and CI/CD automation
• Experience with Git and cloud git providers such as GitHub

Bonus points

• Experience with Electron 
• Experience building shared component libraries and/or design systems
• A passion for luxurious developer tools
• Knowledge of data visualization tools like D3
• Experience with Figma
  

How you’ll be rewarded

💵  Excellence — Competitive compensation with annual performance-based pay increases

🏖  Balance — Flexible Paid-Time-Off Policy & paid company holidays (chosen by our employees)

👶  Parent life — Generous paid parental leave

🐶 Pets — Pet insurance plan (with no exclusions)

🍎 Health — Health, dental, and vision insurance with competitive employer cost-sharing

🌵 Headquarters — Modern, fully equipped offices designed to maximize productivity in a hybrid environment

🏆  Culture — Great Place to Work Certified

📚  Growth — Paid career development opportunities, audiobook subscriptions, and mentorship

🔮  Future — 401(k) retirement plan plus company matching

🛫  Travel — Company paid domestic trip after your 1-year anniversary & an international trip every 5 years

Location

This is a hybrid position based in Scottsdale, AZ. This role combines the flexibility of remote work with the benefits of meaningful in-person collaboration. Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the Phoenix area. 

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: 

At GitKraken, we believe that diversity among our teammates is critical to our success as a company. GitKraken evaluates all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender (including pregnancy, gender expression, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability status, or any other legally protected class. We recruit, hire, and retain top talent from a diverse candidate pool.