Job Description
Salary 45,000 - 75,000 GBP per year
Find out if this opportunity is a good fit by reading all of the information that follows below.
Requirements:
- Experience working with the modern web development toolchain including: React and frameworks such as Next.js or GatsbyJS, CSS 3, modern JavaScript (TypeScript experience would be a plus).
Experience working with headless CMSs such as Contentful, Contentstack, Builder.io, Sanity, Prismic or Netlify CMS.
Search engine optimization, web accessibility, web performance, cross-browser compatibility.
UI testing with tools such as Cypress.
Working with REST and GraphQL APIs.
Attention to detail. Providing a top notch web experience requires a strong design mindset.
Responsibilities:
- What you can expect from this role
In the first 3 months:
Onboard into the public website and documentation website codebases, add small features, fix some small bugs.
Get to know your teammates, learn about the team's roadmap and stakeholders.
Dive deep into GatsbyJS and slowly become an expert in it.
In the first year:
Have become fully comfortable with most of the codebase.
Start working on some developer experience improvements such as upgrading package dependencies or accelerating build times.
Start speccing and scoping larger projects with the rest of the team and own longer end-to-end projects across Marketing, Design and Engineering.
Technologies:
- CMS
- CSS
- Cypress
- Frontend
- Gatsby
- GraphQL
- HTTP
- JIRA
- JavaScript
- Marketing
- REST
- React
- TypeScript
- Web
- UX UI Design
More:
Our main website, documentation website and blog are all very important to us, and we have a dedicated team building these. The Web Engineering Team collaborates very closely with the Design, Marketing & Documentation Team to provide the highest quality web experience for new and existing customers.The tech stack for this team has changed a lot over the last few years (and will change a lot in the future too), but Gatsby is the core web framework that powers most things. The Web Engineering Team leverages a CMS platform so that most of the content on our public web properties are editable by members of our Marketing Team. This CMS needs to scale to hundreds of pages and thousands of resources.
Required Skills and Experience
Experience working with the modern web development toolchain including: React and frameworks such as Next.js or GatsbyJS, CSS 3, modern JavaScript (TypeScript experience would be a plus).
Experience working with headless CMSs such as Contentful, Contentstack, Builder.io, Sanity, Prismic or Netlify CMS.
Search engine optimization, web accessibility, web performance, cross-browser compatibility.
UI testing with tools such as Cypress.
Working with REST and GraphQL APIs.
Attention to detail. Providing a top notch web experience requires a strong design mindset.
What you can expect from this role
In the first 3 months:
Onboard into the public website and documentation website codebases, add small features, fix some small bugs.
Get to know your teammates, learn about the team's roadmap and stakeholders.
Dive deep into GatsbyJS and slowly become an expert in it.
In the first year:
Have become fully comfortable with most of the codebase.
Start working on some developer experience improvements such as upgrading package dependencies or accelerating build times.
Start speccing and scoping larger projects with the rest of the team and own longer end-to-end projects across Marketing, Design and Engineering.
What we offer you
There are many reasons why people choose to join SingleStore, but we've highlighted a few that we think you'll like:
Work at your own pace.
Like our technology, our team is also distributed across the globe, so we try to have an async-first type of communication and respect each other's varying schedules.
We trust our teams to deliver their best work and we make sure they have everything they need to accomplish that. That means that you'll be part of the decisions as well, not just chugging through JIRA tickets all day.
Space to grow and innovate, in your own team or around it.
We tackle hard problems every day, from databases, to infrastructure, to enterprise usability; there's opportunities for growth everywhere in the company.
Who will you work with
Phil Sheffield, Head of Design
Phil runs the design team and helps project manage some of the creative projects that this team works on. He helps ensure that the entire customer experience is excellent. He also ran the design team at previous to coming to SingleStore.
Rafaela Ferro, Software Engineer
Rafaela is a Frontend Engineer on the web team that helps bring to life the projects envisioned by the design and marketing team. Previous to coming to SingleStore, she worked as a product designer.
Jeremy Jones, Software Engineer
Jeremy is a frontend-focused engineer on the web team and is currently based in San Francisco. During his tenure at the company, he has worked on many projects across all of our web properties, including collaborating closely with Design & Marketing to build beautiful user experiences, e.g., migrating our entire documentation site from one stack to another, and helping to improve our SEO score during a colossal company rebranding project.
SingleStore is one platform for all data, built so you can engage with insight in every moment. Trusted by industry leaders, SingleStore enables enterprises to adapt to change as it happens, embrace diverse data with ease, and accelerate the pace of innovation. SingleStore is venture-backed and headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Portland, Seattle, Boston, Bangalore, London, Lisbon, and Kyiv. Defining the future starts with The Database of Now .
Consistent with our commitment to diversity & inclusion, we value individuals with the ability to work on diverse teams and with a diverse range of people.
To all recruitment agencies: SingleStore does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to SingleStore employees. SingleStore is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with the Company.