Senior Software Engineer, Front-end

Hi! 👋 We’re Pipekit, and our mission is to make cloud native pipelines delightful for developers. We offer a managed service for Argo Workflows that helps data teams do batch data processing, ML training, and CI/CD at a scale no other tool can match.

Data teams are woefully under-resourced when it comes to having infrastructure that scales, and Pipekit fills that void for them.

🤔 Why work at Pipekit

Pipekit enables scale at the highest levels for companies running the most compute-intensive data operations in the world. We build products that solve their scale pains and ultimately unlock scaling to infinity.

We’re a customer- and community-centric startup that has been hitting major milestone after milestone, and we’re now building out our founding engineering team. We raised a Seed round from prominent investors to give us years of runway, including GV, Uncorrelated Ventures, Surface Ventures, Shasta Ventures, and Liquid 2 Ventures.

The Senior Software Engineer at Pipekit plays a key role in scaling the core foundations of Pipekit products to meet the requirements of the largest enterprise customers. They also help make Argo Workflows more accessible to individual developers and organizations of any size by contributing back to the community.

Finally, as cofounders, our focus everyday is to create an environment where you are set up to do your best work. You will have a meaningful impact on culture, engineering process, and Pipekit development experiences

🛠 What you’ll do

As a Senior Software Engineer at Pipekit, you will work on and own projects essential to the success of the company and the Argo community.
You will focus on building well-tested, user-facing features. Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality React/ TypeScript code.
You will work closely with Pipekit’s founder, J.P. (CTO), to shape and execute our product roadmap. You will identify opportunities to delight users, track risks and dependencies, and champion critical features over the finish line.
Since we’re a customer- and community-focused organization, you’ll regularly interact with customers and community members to validate solutions.
You'll write automated tests, participate in code reviews and product releases.
This is a full-stack role, so you will troubleshoot issues through the entire stack and handle small backend changes when necessary.
You will contribute code and docs to the Argo open source project.

🎯 What makes you a great fit

Thorough understanding of React and its core principles (2+ years of experience)
Experience with Redux or other popular React state management workflows
Excellent programming abilities, especially with JavaScript/ TypeScript, and preferably experience with a statically-typed language like Golang, Java, Rust, C++, etc.
- Golang microservices knowledge is a plus, but not required
Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token (JWT)
Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools (Webpack, NPM, etc.)
Experience with unit testing and integration test frameworks such as Jest, Cypress, etc.
Ability to work closely with a designer and translate designs into clean, reusable front-end code
You can independently make decisions and come up with new, effective ideas on how to improve the process of creating and distributing application software
Collaborating with others on a team gives you energy, whether synchronous or asynchronous
You effectively communicate your ideas and code through documentation, GitHub comments, blog posts, and other public writing
You put yourself in the customer’s shoes regularly so you can deliver an excellent customer experience via your product
A growth mindset: you don’t stop learning and leveling up your skills
Understand that being right is more important than sounding smart