Principal Software Engineer, Frontend Web

Description

• Design, develop and maintain frontend applications (JavaScript, React, TypeScript) alongside backend services (Golang, AWS) • Build and optimize beautifully rendered, web-based components that push performance limits across XR Headsets • Lead large, complex projects across teams, defining scope, planning execution, and delivering milestones on time • Collaborate with architects, UX designers, product managers, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into product features • Shape system design and architecture across cloud and web environments, improving scalability, performance and feel across immersive and 2D environments • Lead technical discussions, align outcomes with business goals, and document solutions for clarity and adoption • Stay ahead of emerging trends to anticipate and address future development needs

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience • 8+ years of hands-on experience in software design and development with emphasis on Frontend development • Deep, hands-on experience developing complex, performance-sensitive web applications in JavaScript (ES6+) with working knowledge of React and TypeScript • Strong grasp of browser performance profiling, rendering bottlenecks, and limitations of the DOM and JavaScript engines • Experience building applications with CPU constraints that push browser limits • Experience with real-time communication technologies like WebSockets, Microsoft Fluid and supporting data formats (JSON, Protobuf) • Demonstrated excellence in cross-functional collaboration, with experience working across multiple engineering teams and stakeholders • Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, concurrency, distributed systems, and browser event loops and rendering pipelines • Experience with Electron or Tauri • Comfortable with AWS, specifically services like S3 • Git, GitHub knowledge • Experience in an agile development environment • Ability to work in a startup-like environment even within a big company (things will move fast) • Good problem-solving and communication skills • Jenkins, Travis, or other CI/CD system knowledge

Benefits

• annual cash bonuses • commissions for sales roles • stock grants • comprehensive benefits package

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