Sr Web Developer

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation. 
 

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation. 
 

Position Summary

The Sr. Software Engineer provides software development support by analyzing business requirements to design and develop appropriate systems solutions according to specifications. They provide technical expertise in evaluating, designing, developing, deploying, monitoring, testing and supporting systems and procedures that are cost effective and improve work efficiency. Additionally, the software development engineer partners with enterprise and solution architects to ensure that the application meets company service level standards and roadmap requirements. The software development engineer is embedded within an agile team and is able to quickly adapt to shifting business priorities. The Sr Software Engineer will work in a product team operating model with a Product Manager, a UX Designer and other software engineers.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop front-end, back-end, and/or middleware solutions to given problems
• Translate business needs into technical requirements
• Provide constructive feedback in code reviews and help others to become better developers
• Maintain and iterate on multiple interconnected build systems
• Own the development of scalable single-page applications
• Write well-designed, efficient code that works across devices
• Develop high-demand authoring and user experiences
• Stay up-to-date on cutting edge technologies/tools in the Web Development sphere
• Create Proof of Concepts/Rapid prototypes and implement them
• Contribute to CI/CT/CD process using DevOps tools
• Contribute to Grooming/Planning/Scrum meetings and be a part of required scrum events
• Analyze end user needs and design, develop and unit test your software
• Contribute to design and coding standards to ensure consistency across applications

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Experience with headless application architectures
• Experience with frontend tools & technologies, such as Next.js, Webpack, modern JavaScript, TypeScript, Storybook.js, and React
• Experience with APIs and webhooks a plus
• Experience with web performance and accessibility tools and techniques is a plus
• Experience developing for CMS platforms
• Experience with Content Management Systems is a plus
• Experience with Git is a plus
• Ability to discover requirements from provided graphical designs
• Demonstrate excellent communication and inter-personal skills
• Demonstrate strong time management and organizational skills
• Ability to provide exceptional support to both internal and external customers
• Ability to prioritize and multi-task in a fast paced, changing environment
• A self-starter with the drive, passion, and will to succeed
• Demonstrate excellent analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrate basic knowledge of continuous integration; build and deploy automation tools
• Working knowledge of CI/CD

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of experience in all phases of modern full-stack web development
• Expert CSS and JavaScript development skills
• Experience using/developing for CMS Platforms, Sanity.io is a plus
• Experience with multiple software development methodologies/lifecycles

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice. 

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.  F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting [email protected].