Senior Software Engineer

Reposted 9 Days Ago
2 Locations
In-Office or Remote
103K-185K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity
Akamai powers and protects life online by solving the toughest challenges and turning the impossible into the possible.
The Role
Design, build, and maintain pixel-perfect front-end web applications and shared component libraries. Translate visual designs into functional UIs, ensure cross-browser/platform compatibility, contribute across the project lifecycle, and apply testing and CI practices to deliver high-quality user experiences at scale.
Summary Generated by Built In

Are you a software developer who loves building beautiful user interfaces?

Would making an impact on the digital experiences of millions of users excite you?

Join our Cloud Experience Engineering Team

Our Cloud Experience Engineering team is a group of dedicated professionals shaping Akamai's aspirations to create an industry-leading user experience. We take ownership for the design and development for core interfaces, applications and services. We create an experience that allows customers and internal stakeholders to build software using the best of internal and third-party technologies.

Partner with the best

As a Front-End Senior Software Engineer, you will thrive on delivering outstanding quality and functionality to our customers. You will conceptualize, build and maintain user interfaces and shared web components across all of Akamai. You will work in a collaborative capacity to translate visual design specifications and requirements into a fully functional UI for our web applications.

As a Front-End Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:

  • Building powerful, yet easy-to-use next generation web applications to achieve consistent user experience across our multiple applications
  • Contributing to a library of common components and development tooling
  • Utilizing pixel-perfect layout skills and hand coding of both simple and complex cross-browser and cross-platform solutions
  • Contributing to all aspects of the project lifecycle: define, design, develop, and test

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

  • Have 5 years of experience and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
  • Demonstrate familiarity with professional HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  • Show experience with React, Angular, or a leading JavaScript framework
  • Possess a clear understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Source Code Management Systems (we use git)
  • Be familiar with software testing concepts including unit, functional, regression continuous integration, and performance testing

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like!      

Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from 102,500 - 184,500 CAD/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, RRSP, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

Skills Required

  • 5 years of experience
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
  • Professional HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  • Experience with React, Angular, or a leading JavaScript framework
  • Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Source Code Management (git)
  • Familiarity with software testing concepts including unit, functional, regression, continuous integration, and performance testing
  • Pixel-perfect layout and cross-browser/cross-platform implementation skills

Akamai Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Akamai Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Akamai Technologies.

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Unlimited PTO in the U.S., wellness days, paid volunteering time, and the FlexBase model contribute to broad time‑off flexibility. These practices are described as supporting strong work‑life balance.
  • Parental & Family Support Generous paid parental leaves, paid family care leave, subsidized backup childcare, and inclusive family‑building benefits via Carrot form a comprehensive family support suite. Coverage spans fertility support through caregiving resources.
  • Retirement Support A 401(k) with a substantial company match and immediate vesting, plus Roth and Mega Backdoor Roth options, underpin long‑term savings. These features provide reliable long‑term savings opportunities.

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The Company
HQ: Cambridge, MA
10,285 Employees
Year Founded: 1998

What We Do

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every moment, billions of people, all over the world, are using the internet to shop, play games, look after finances, learn remotely, share videos, connect across the world, and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission, and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges, and turning the impossible into the possible. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Do you want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!

Why Work With Us

Our people are devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence, and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse, and we love to collaborate across the world.

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