Senior Software Engineer, Web
At Viral Nation, we specialize in building social-first ecosystems for brands to connect with the modern consumer journey. Our integrated solutions align strategy, talent, media, and technology with culturally relevant creativity to scale the world’s fastest-growing digital brands. Viral Nation offers a fluid, creative, and growth-oriented environment that will support your ambitions to apply your talents in an open, collaborative, and fast-paced culture. Our ability to stay at the forefront of the industry has fueled our success and will guide us in paving the path forward. We’re driven to push boundaries and think beyond today to deliver strategies, and we’re just getting started.
While we continuously exceed our goals, we need your help – our success is only as great as our people. Strong performance leads to high expectations, and we must keep raising the bar!
Position Overview:
Viral Nation is looking for a highly-skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer, Web to join our dynamic organization. This role will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our engineering processes. As a senior member of the tech org, this role will collaborate within a cross-functional team, but also with technical and non-technical teams across the business, providing technical leadership, frontend architectural guidance, and ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop scalable, secure, and maintainable web applications.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to refine and break down requirements into user stories and tasks in the squad backlog.
- Lead the technical design and implementation of complex features and modules, ensuring adherence to architectural principles and coding standards defined by the architecture committee.
- Collaborate with UX/UI designers to ensure seamless integration of design elements into frontend architecture.
- Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and mentor junior engineers to foster a culture of continuous improvement and excellence.
- Troubleshoot and debug issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement effective solutions to ensure the stability and performance of web applications.
- Implement and advocate for performance optimization techniques to enhance the overall user experience.
- Stay abreast of emerging web technologies and trends, and evaluate their potential use in our products and platform.
- Collaborate with the SRE team to optimize deployment processes, monitor application performance, and ensure reliability and scalability.
- Actively participate in Scrum rituals, such as sprint planning, estimation, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives, to drive project delivery and maintain transparency.
Qualifications and Skills:
- A minimum of 5+ years of experience in a full stack software engineer role with a strong understanding of web application architecture and design patterns, and performance optimization tools and techniques.
- Demonstrated expertise in frontend technologies and popular libraries and frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.
- Extensive experience with responsive design and CSS frameworks.
- An advanced understanding of frontend testing tools and frameworks.
- Strong familiarity with RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
- Clear and concise cross-functional communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience with web accessibility standards and guidelines is a strong plus.
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, OR relevant experience.
Viral Nation is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in our agency. Viral Nation welcomes applications from people with visible and non-visible disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruiting and selection process.
Viral Nation is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in our agency. Viral Nation welcomes applications from people with visible and non-visible disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruiting and selection process.
