Senior Web Development Software Engineer II
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Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.
We are looking for a Senior Web Development Software Engineer II who is passionate about all things Web Development and Internet.
As a Senior Web Development Software Engineer II at DigitalOcean, you'll work with a team of dedicated, enthusiastic, smart, and experienced engineers to ensure a world class brand presence through the engineering and presentation of our public facing properties. From building features and improvements to our CMS to launching our newest most-impactful products, you’ll make use of your experience in full stack web development to lead initiatives around Infrastructure, Client, Front End, Back End, CI/CD, and DevOps. In addition, you’ll act as a tech lead and subject matter expert and work collaboratively with cross-functional partners to drive product launches, improve internal tooling and workflows, and architectural overhauls to support the next phase of our Web and Brand strategies.
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.
- Collaborate across the organization and consistently interface with product, design, UX, marketing and other technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- 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 internal systems like the CMS, tooling, deployment strategy, and operational excellence.
- Review pull requests in a collaborative and supportive mode, surfacing ideal improvements.
- Exhibit strong and confident verbal and written communication skills.
What You’ll Bring To DigitalOcean
- 8+ years of software development experience.
- Expert-level experience with HTML, CSS, Javascript, Typescript, React.js, and Node.js. Prior experience with Next.js is advantageous.
- 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.
- Ideal candidates will have experience working on and maintaining high-traffic public-facing websites powered by CMSs with an understanding of technical SEO fundamentals.
- Solid understanding of full-stack architecture, performance optimization, and scalability principles within an Enterprise-class software system.
- 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.
- Ideal candidates have experience in networking and internet engineering best practices.
Why You’ll Like Working For DigitalOcean
- We innovate with purpose. You’ll be part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world.
- We prioritize career development. You’ll do the best work of your career and grow with some of the industry's smartest people. Resources include reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education; access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses.
- We care about your well-being. Competitive benefits and programs to support you, with details varying by location.
- We reward our employees. Competitive salary range and opportunities for bonuses and equity; eligibility for equity grants and Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- We value diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
- This is a remote role.
Job Details
- Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
- Employment type: Full-time
- Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
- Industries: Internet Publishing
- Location: Remote