DigitalOcean is looking to enhance its public-facing properties and brand presence through the engineering and presentation of its website, requiring a Senior Web Development Software Engineer II to lead initiatives in full-stack web development, infrastructure, client-side, front-end, back-end, CI/CD, and DevOps.
Requirements
- Expert-level experience with HTML, CSS, Javascript, Typescript, React.js, and Node.js.
- Prior experience with Next.js will go a long way in this role.
- Experience with foundational backend and infrastructure technologies, like PostgresSQL, Nginx, CI/CD and Kubernetes.
- Experience in testing, reporting, and collaboration tooling: GitHub, Git, Sentry, Grafana, Elastic, Kibana, or Playwright.
- Solid understanding of full-stack architecture, performance optimization, and scalability principles within an Enterprise-class software system.
- Ideal candidates have experience in networking and internet engineering best practices.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of frontend and full-stack engineers, fostering growth and technical excellence.
- Watch over key marketing properties from a Full Stack perspective, working primarily in Javascript/Typescript, React, and Node.js.
- Oversee the technical roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals and engineering standards.
- Lead software architecture, design, and optimization of scalable full-stack software solutions, including developing technical strategy and roadmap for our internal systems like our CMS, tooling, open source software, deployment strategy, and operational excellence.
- Review Pull Requests in a collaborative and supportive mode, surfacing ideal improvements
Other
- Collaborate across the organization and consistently interface with product, design, UX, marketing and other technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Exhibit strong and confident verbal and written communication skills
- 8+ years of software development experience.
- Ideal candidates will have experience working on and maintaining high-traffic public-facing websites powered by CMSs with an understanding of technical SEO fundamentals.
- Able to make effective trade-offs in regards to both engineering and product requirements, while balancing short term and long term needs.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience conveying complex ideas in written, verbal and presentational formats to get buy-ins from diverse stakeholders.
