Senior Software Engineer - Integrations

Surfside is a technology company powering the infrastructure, APIs, and software businesses need to quickly build custom ad platforms for personalized commerce, native ads, sponsored listings, internal promotions, and more.

We help retailers unlock new value to personalize, grow, and monetize their customer experiences like never before. Meanwhile, brands and advertisers can tap into an entirely new performance channel, reaching relevant, high-intent consumers when and where they are most likely to buy.

The Senior Software Engineer - Integrations we seek will bring full-stack expertise with the ability to take lead with integrations across Point of Sale, CRM, and similar platforms, play an integral part in delivering features through collaboration with key stakeholders, act as a key contributor to shaping architecture and infrastructure, and ensure coding best practices. In return, we offer an opportunity to enhance your technical expertise through collaboration and exposure to interesting challenges, tremendous growth potential as you join a team that is experiencing sustained growth, an incredibly competitive compensation program with equity and exceptional health/well-being benefits, true work-life balance, and a chance to have fun doing meaningful, relevant work.

The Role
As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will be leading initiatives on an autonomous, high-performing team. You will be the owner of components of the overall Surfside product and be responsible for the delivery of features, mentoring junior members of the team, working with the product team to build our advertising platform, and driving technical excellence. This position will require architectural vision as we build and deploy the next generation of our software.

Responsibilities

• Identifying and proposing improvements to the current system architecture that emphasize reliability and scalability
• Working with the product and engineering teams to produce development plans and see through to delivery and success
• Growing and mentoring the team, ensuring continuity and ongoing career development Contributing to the collaborative development processes within the organization on both product and technical domains

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience in commercial software development experience designing, building, and operating frontend applications.
• Comprehensive programming skills in JavaScript/TypeScript along with modern frontend frameworks and libraries
• Robust skills in HTML and CSS best practices, including inner workings of the DOM, iFrames, and security features
• Insights and intrigue in building high performance secure client side applications nested within critical components of partners multi-page and single-page applications
• Learn quickly: demonstrated ability to quickly understand and absorb new information. Passion for technology and eager to dive-in to figure out how things work
• Problem solving skills: able to use first principles - using both qualitative and quantitative data - to solve complex problems
• Leadership: mentor & help organize engineering contributors, work with the product team to gather requirements & measure tradeoffs efficient and productive manner, understanding business logic and be able to translate into appropriate technical solutions
• Excellent communication skills in English - you can explain complex ideas to technical and non-technical audiences both verbally and in writing

At Surfside we encourage autonomy; teams have complete ownership of their systems including building, running and monitoring. As such, you may be required to be on-call and respond to system alerts should they arise
Ideas, opinions, and the ability to share them through respectful proposals, presentations, and team-wide discussions, An eagerness to work and learn in the open and share your learnings with your teammates
A willingness and comfort communicating asynchronously through chat, docs, video calls, and other collaborative online tools

Surfside is an Equal Opportunity Employer and recognizes that a diverse workforce is crucial to our success as a business. We encourage and welcome you to apply irrespective of age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, color, pregnancy, family responsibilities, national and social origin, political opinion, marital, veteran, or disability status.