Senior Software Engineer I (UI Engineering)

Do you ever wonder what happens inside the cloud?

DigitalOcean is a dynamic, high-growth technology company that serves a robust and passionate community of developers, teams, and businesses around the world. We believe that today’s entrepreneurs are changing the world through software. Our mission is to empower these entrepreneurs by bringing modern app development within reach for any developer, anywhere in the world.

We want people who are passionate about building apps that you and your peers will love.

We are looking for an experienced, product-focused Sr. Software Engineer I, UI who shares our passion for making complex applications appear simple for our customers. We’ll give you the freedom to do what you do best, so you should feel comfortable owning your work from start to finish, as well as bringing fresh ideas to the table that can make our products, development experience, and team better. You’ll have the opportunity to work closely with designers, product managers, and other engineers across the stack to make ideas a reality. Our current stack consists of React, TypeScript, and GraphQL, though we also continue to support our legacy Ember application.

What You’ll Be Doing

• As part of our UI Engineering team, leading and building DigitalOcean’s suite of customer-facing products
• Collaborating with Product and Design to improve user experience with simplicity for our customers as a core value
• Writing clean, maintainable, and testable code and reusable/extensible components
• Building new, efficient, and scalable front-end applications that will interface with public and internal APIs
• Working with backend teams to solve complex problems with broad impact
• Mentoring engineers to help them grow
• Contributing to technical designs, and reviewing technical designs submitted by others.
• Triaging and resolving internal and external bugs.
  
  

What We’ll Expect From You

• Passion for solving our customer’s problems, and delivering value in the products we build for them
• Experience in product Frontend development working closely with Backend developers and services, Product Management, and Design/UX
• Building front-end components interacting with GraphQL, gRPC, and REST API.
• Have a mastery-level understanding of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
• Strong experience building and deploying single-page applications at scale
• Experience with modern JavaScript application frameworks such as React, but ability to think outside the framework
  
  

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean

• We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
• We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
• We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
• We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• We value diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer, and recognize that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams and products to serve our customers. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
• This is a hybrid role