Senior Front-End Engineer

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Front End Engineer to join our Toronto office. Proofpoint Email Archiving is a cloud-based solution featuring a distributed grid search and storage infrastructure. This service-based architecture scales to meet the needs of hundreds of clients, including some of the world's largest businesses. As a member of the Archiving eDiscovery team, you will develop and maintain a single-page application. The ideal candidate is strategic, self-motivated, creative, and highly communicative, both verbally and in writing, and can adapt quickly to a fast-paced, evolving environment. This is a hands-on role, where you will design and own key UI components of the eDiscovery product, solve complex issues, and implement intricate business requirements.

Your Day-to-Day

• Collaborate with UX designers and product owners to define and refine feature requirements.
• Work with the scrum master, technical leaders, and manager to ensure designs meet product requirements and resolve technical constraints while ensuring timely delivery.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum processes, including daily scrums, retrospectives, planning, and demos.
• Continuously seek improvements in product and development processes.
• Provide technical expertise to support/sustaining teams to resolve critical production issues. - Ensure high-quality code by practicing continuous integration with unit tests, source control, and integrated build processes.
• Research and implement new technologies into development practices.

What You Bring to the Team

• Minimum 5 years of industry experience delivering production software with demonstrated expertise in a JavaScript framework (Ember.js preferred, React, Angular, Vue.js, etc.).
• Solid understanding of HTML, CSS, and experience with SASS or LESS.
• Strong skills in JavaScript, including ES6+ standards.
• Expertise in writing testable UI and experience creating Unit/Integration/Acceptance tests for the UI.
• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills to resolve complex issues and find effective solutions.
• Ability to dive into documentation of new processes or frameworks and bring understanding back to the team.
• Self-starter with strong interpersonal and communication skills. Able to communicate technical solutions and designs well to different stakeholders.
• Ability to define REST API requirements.
• Ability to work efficiently under pressure and manage multiple assignments.
• University degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Experience using Ember.js.
• Experience creating web components.
• Familiarity with modern build tools like Webpack, Vite, or Rollup. - Knowledge of TypeScript.

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