Software Engineer

Develop and maintain customer-facing applications while helping transform the technology stack to serverless architecture. Establish technical standards, collaborate with product and UX teams, improve application performance, champion testing and development best practices, and mentor engineers. The role requires strong JavaScript, browser application, HTML5, CSS3, testing, build tooling, Git, MVC, CI/CD, performance optimization, and AWS experience., As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you’ll help implement features for all customer facing applications at Sunrun, and will also lead the way in transforming large portions of our stack to Serverless. Responsibilities

• Help establish the standards for the team in areas of technical excellence
• Work collaboratively with Product Management and our UX designers to develop applications that can be tested easily and will perform well under a variety of network conditions
• Champion adherence to best practice development methodologies
• Facilitate automated testing so all teams can innovate at a rapid pace
• Mentor and build skills across the team through effective standards setting, code reviews, and pairing, Architects and implements scalable managed database control-plane and infrastructure systems. Owns performance, resiliency, failover, backups, recovery, observability, and production operations for PostgreSQL and MySQL services. Translates ambiguous requirements into technical architecture, leads cross-team projects, mentors engineers, reviews designs and code, and improves systems supporting high-concurrency, data-intensive, and AI-adjacent workloads. Top Skills: Automated FailoverCloud InfrastructureContinuous BackupsControl PlanesDatabase PlatformsDistributed SystemsLinuxMulti-Region SystemsMySQLObservabilityPaasPoint-In-Time RecoveryPostgresSaaS DigitalOcean

• BS/MS in CS or equivalent is preferred
• Minimum of 5 years of experience developing complex enterprise applications with JavaScript
• Bias towards mentorship and skill-building
• Some breadth and depth in SAAS application design and implementation
• Excellent communication skills
• Good team player
• Strong JavaScript application development of browser applications
• Strong knowledge of HTML5 (DOM, markup, browser APIs) and CSS3 (SASS preprocessor, OOCSS, modular)
• Strong skills with writing unit and integration tests in JavaScript using Mocha, Chai, Sinon Experience with React and Flux is a big plus
• More specifically Redux as ‘flux’ framework
• Ability to work with JS build/task runners like Webpack, Gulp, Grunt and NPM run scripts
• Strong knowledge of Git, version control, branching strategies, merging, and rebasing
• Performance optimization experience including browser page rendering, network traffic, and back-end system tuning
• Solid understanding of MVC architecture and frameworks
• Strong focus on Automation - Continuous Integration/Deployment
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services, S3, CloudFront Education

Please note that the compensation information is made in good faith for this position only. It assumes that the successful candidate will be located in markets within the United States that warrant the compensation. Please speak with your recruiter to learn more.

Starting salary/wage for this opportunity: 173,415.85 to 208,099.02

Compensation decisions will not be based on a candidate’s salary history. You can learn more here., Design, implement, and operate scalable managed database platform systems across distributed control planes and infrastructure. Lead architecture and cross-team technical projects, improve performance, resiliency, failover, backups, and recovery, and support multi-region workloads. Mentor engineers, conduct design and code reviews, establish observability practices, participate in on-call rotations, and turn production incidents into lasting improvements. Top Skills: Automated FailoverCloud ComputingContinuous BackupsControl-Plane InfrastructureDatabase ReplicationDistributed SystemsLinuxMySQLObservabilityPoint-In-Time RecoveryPostgres DigitalOcean, Yesterday In-Office or Remote 167K-209K Annually Senior level 167K-209K Annually Senior level Artificial Intelligence * Cloud * Software * Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Architect and implement scalable Managed Database control-plane and infrastructure systems. Improve performance, resiliency, failover, backups, recovery, observability, and multi-region operations for PostgreSQL and MySQL workloads. Lead complex cross-team technical initiatives, translate ambiguous requirements into architecture, operate production services, participate in on-call, and mentor engineers through technical guidance, design reviews, and code reviews. Top Skills: Cloud InfrastructureContinuous BackupsControl PlanesDatabase ReplicationDbaasDistributed SystemsLinuxMySQLObservabilityPoint-In-Time RecoveryPostgres

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