22 days ago
Base Salary
$136k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide technical guidance to frontend and full-stack engineers through code reviews and knowledge sharing.
- Drive frontend architecture using NextJS and TypeScript.
- Drive backend services, data integration pipelines, and content management systems.
- Design and implement APIs powering dynamic web experiences.
- Establish testing, quality, and code review standards.
- Lead frontend and backend performance optimization, monitoring, and observability practices.
- Ensure security, scalability, reliability, accessibility, and cross-browser compatibility across web experiences.
- Contribute to technical planning, prioritize technical initiatives, and support project delivery.
- Partner with design, SRE, infrastructure, and other teams to deliver cohesive user experiences and seamless system integration.
- Promote effective collaboration and communication in a distributed-first environment.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in frontend and backend web development, modern JavaScript frameworks, scalable web applications, and APIs.
- 3+ years of experience as a senior technical contributor or technical lead in collaborative environments.
- Deep expertise in NextJS, React, and TypeScript.
- Deep experience with content management systems, headless CMS architectures, and content delivery workflows.
- Strong understanding of frontend testing methodologies, quality assurance processes, accessibility standards, and web performance optimization.
- Practical experience managing cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Knowledge of search technologies, data indexing and retrieval systems, and web performance metrics.
- Ability to bridge design and development teams and communicate effectively in distributed environments.
- Preferred experience includes micro-frontend architectures, Elasticsearch or other search and analytics platforms, CDNs, edge computing, event-driven architectures, message queuing, marketing technology integrations, backend and data-pipeline testing, SRE or DevOps practices, and localization or internationalization.
Benefits
- Distributed company with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Generous vacation days.
- Company-matched 401(k) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings.
- Eligibility to participate in Elastic’s stock program.
- Up to $2,000 in matched financial donations and up to 40 volunteer hours annually.
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave.
- Base salary compensation with no variable compensation component.
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About Elastic
Elastic builds the Elasticsearch-based platform for enterprise search, observability (logging, metrics, APM), and security (SIEM/endpoint). It sells subscriptions and Elastic Cloud managed services with usage-based pricing, combining open source and proprietary features through Elasticsearch and Kibana. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, Elastic is publicly traded on the NYSE and is used by more than half of the Fortune 500.