Senior Front-end Engineer (Tech Lead)

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Build the future of data. Join the Snowflake team.

Snowflake started with a clear vision: develop a cloud data platform that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. Snowflake developed an innovative new product with a built-for-the-cloud architecture that combines the power of data warehousing, the flexibility of big data platforms, and the elasticity of the cloud at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. We are now a global, world-class organization with offices in more than a dozen countries and serving many more.

User Experience is an often cited factor driving our unprecedented customer retention rate. We have built industry leading data tools and visualizations and are looking for experienced engineers that will help us build the next generation of exceptional user interfaces. 

We are looking for a Senior Front-end Engineer who can join our efforts in continuing to lead the industry in ease-of-use and customer delights.

As a Senior Front-end Engineer, You Will:

  • Be the CTO of an area, driving the technical direction, and influencing the product roadmap.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand customer pain points, requirements, dependencies, and priorities.
  • Lead and mentor a team of engineers through the design, execution, and delivery of multiple features into production.
  • Be quality gatekeeper, ensuring designs are well conceived, technically sound with few gaps, and solutions are implemented following best practices that meet Snowflake's high quality standards.
  • Own the operational health of an area, helping in defining the team’s objectives and success metrics, and ensure that appropriate instrumentation and alerts are in place.

Our Ideal Senior Front-end Engineer, Will Have: 

  • Strong product mindset and will prioritize user needs and experience, while also considering the marketability and profitability of the product.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership experience, such as being an architect or tech lead for high impact customer facing projects.
  • Significant software development experience, including 10+ years of experience in web UI application development.
  • Experience in leading engineering teams and proven to make an impact on the team and company level.
  • Willingness to work as one of UI leaders responsible for strategic alignment across the entire team and contribute to projects outside your primary area of expertise.
  • Distributed system development experience is a big plus.
  • Deep understanding of modern web applications design architecture, good API design, design systems, patterns, performance and scale.
  • Experience in technologies such as Javascript, TypeScript, React, Node, Figma, Python, Go, Kubernetes, and Docker.
  • Knowledge of popular testing frameworks such as React Testing Library, Puppeteer, Cypress, Playwright.

Why Join The Engineering Team At Snowflake?
Building cutting edge cloud technologies is complex, and our engineering team surmounts the obstacles. As a member of our team, you will: 

  • Build an industry-leading data platform that customers love.
  • Create intuitive, elegant, and accessible user interfaces that make a powerful and highly technical product simple to use. 
  • Learn about and contribute to:
    • Super-robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services hundreds of customers and millions of complex queries daily.
    • Highly-scalable and reliable data processing platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines.
    • User interfaces bridging the enterprise world with the consumer experience.
  • Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake. 

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