Senior Software Engineer

Description

• Use expertise in full-stack development (TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, and React) to ship reliable, scalable, performant code

• Lead medium-sized projects from conception to delivery, writing RFCs and managing project timelines

• Build and maintain user-facing features and product APIs that scale to serve millions of developers worldwide

• Apply engineering practices: testing, documentation, observability, and performance optimization

• Pragmatically leverage AI tools to enhance the development workflow

• Contribute to early-stage prototypes and production-ready applications impacting user experience and business metrics

• Work with domains, DNS, and certificate management systems to ensure reliable and secure user experiences

• Practice proactive async communication and document workflows and decision-making clearly

• Participate in code reviews, on-call rotations, and continuous improvement efforts to reduce technical debt

• Collaborate with Product, Design, and cross-functional teammates to design and implement user flows that enhance the developer experience

Requirements

• Strong expertise in TypeScript and JavaScript

• Proficiency with Go for backend services and API development

• Hands-on experience with React and modern frontend development practices

• Familiarity with domains, DNS, and certificate management

• Background with Ruby and Rails is helpful

• Extensive production experience delivering features and services that serve large user bases

• Experience writing high-quality, testable, reliable, and maintainable code

• Comfortable using and experimenting with AI-assisted development tools

• Experience contributing to open-source projects or working in public codebases is a plus

• Strong written and verbal communication skills in asynchronous remote-first environments

• Critical thinking and solution-oriented approach to complex technical challenges

• Growth mindset and openness to learning new tools, technologies, and best practices

• Passion for working in a collaborative environment with diverse, distributed teams

• You are based in the UK and comfortable collaborating with globally distributed teams

Benefits

• robust benefits and participation in Netlify’s equity plan

• fully distributed company (remote-first)

• compensation philosophy that prioritizes fairness and equity

• accommodations for disability during interview (email accommodations@netlify.com)

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