Staff Software Engineer (Frontend)

8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT) believes that CX limits were meant to be shattered. We connect people and organizations through seamless communication on the industry's most integrated platform for Customer Experience—combining Contact Center, Unified Communications, and CPaaS APIs. The 8x8® Platform for CX integrates AI at every level to enable personalized customer journeys, drive operational excellence and insights, and facilitate team collaboration.

We help customer experience and IT leaders become the heartbeat of their organizations, empowering them to unlock the potential of every interaction. With one platform, one ecosystem, and one data model, you can turn every team into a customer-facing team and unify your CX to conquer the complexity. 

As an organization, we are looking for Team8s who are AI-proficient, open to innovation, and skilled in leveraging AI for efficiency and growth.

Learn more on our company website at www.8x8.com follow our pages on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our growing technology team. This is an exciting opportunity to become a member of the 8x8 engineering team that is involved in the entire life cycle of development, from the browser to the database.
You will be part of the team that owns high performance, mission critical services, from design to development, deployment and operation at scale.
Get the chance to work in a microservices architecture, add new features, solve day-to-day problems and contribute to system wide technical improvements. All this in an agile run project that is continuously deployed in Kubernetes clusters hosted in AWS.
Responsibilities

• Develop modern React applications built on our newly created APIs
• Build reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code.
• Optimize components for maximum performance and responsive across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
• Building clean, optimized and easily maintainable code
• Triaging issues, finding and resolving the root cause
• Support test and deployment of new products and features
• Work closely with operations and infrastructure to build and scale back-end services

Qualifications

• Proven experience with Javascript, ES6+ (Typescript is a plus)
• Very good knowledge of common Javascript patterns and testing frameworks
• Thorough understanding of Distributed Systems and real-time processing,
• Good knowledge of REST and WebSockets,
• Experience with ReactJS and Redux, ideally, or experience with AngularJS, VueJsExperience with HTML5, CSS (Styled Components is a plus)
• Knowledge of JWT and OAuth
• Significant experience with Webpack, NPM, Yarn, Babel and Jest
• Good knowledge of Application Security principles and practices
• Good knowledge of Distributed Systems
• Deliver beautiful and well tested code
• Real-time communications, WebRTC know-how is an advantage
• Experience contributing to open-source projects
• Familiar with architecture, design, development, and deployment of enterprise systems
• Product mindset and Customer oriented
• Passionate about delivering high-quality software
• Excellent problem solving skills and ability to work independently and with others
• Coach and mentor your team
• Be the example of a team player who works productively with stakeholders to achieve the business objectives of your team.
• Be passionate about complex systems integration and the challenges involved in testing complex software applications.

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