Senior Front-end Engineer

Medallia

(Palo Alto, California)

Full Time

Job Posting Details

About Medallia

Medallia is the customer experience management company. Founded in 2001, the company is trusted by the world’s leading brands including Verizon, Macy’s, Sephora, Honeywell, Four Seasons, Sodexo, and Mercedes to improve customer experiences. Medallia’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application enables companies to capture customer feedback across Web, social, mobile, and contact center channels, understand it in real-time, and take action everywhere.

Responsibilities

As a member of the Medallia development team, you will design and develop software to achieve high performance, high usability, and high stability within the context of our infrastructure, business practices, market pressures, and planning cycles. You should have a deep understanding of modern front end web development including the ability to not only use existing frameworks but to create libraries and whole features from scratch. You will be involved in all phases of the software lifecycle, from specification to design, coding, and deployment.

Ideal Candidate

- BS or higher in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
- 7+ years professional experience creating web applications with Javascript, CSS, and HTML5 (both with and without frameworks)
- A deep understanding of Javascript both in and out of the browser
- A fondness or distaste for AngularJS, ReactJS, Backbone, and Ember - but a working knowledge of each 
- Enthusiasm for workflow automation using tooling such as Gulp, Grunt, NPM, Yeoman, Bower
- Professional experience with front-end dependency managers such as WebPack, Browserify, or RequireJS
- Proficiency in integrating with REST APIs
- Experience with at least one Javascript testing framework at the integration and unit level such as Cucumber, Mocha, Jasmine, JSUnit, etc.
- Experience tracking down cross-browser compatibility issues, including IE bugs
- Commitment to create great code design and an eye for usability issues
- Strong attention to detail, good communications skills, and a positive attitude
- A knack for balancing architectural decisions with the realities of our technology base and business strategies
- Server-side Javascript development (Node, etc.)
- Experience with server-side languages, such as Java, Ruby, PHP, or Python
- Comfortable working in a Mac and Unix environment
- Professional experience with Git

BS or higher in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
7+ years professional experience creating web applications with Javascript, CSS, and HTML5 (both with and without frameworks)
A deep understanding of Javascript both in and out of the browser
A fondness or distaste for AngularJS, ReactJS, Backbone, and Ember - but a working knowledge of each
Enthusiasm for workflow automation using tooling such as Gulp, Grunt, NPM, Yeoman, Bower
Professional experience with front-end dependency managers such as WebPack, Browserify, or RequireJS
Proficiency in integrating with REST APIs
Experience with at least one Javascript testing framework at the integration and unit level such as Cucumber, Mocha, Jasmine, JSUnit, etc.
Experience tracking down cross-browser compatibility issues, including IE bugs
Commitment to create great code design and an eye for usability issues
Strong attention to detail, good communications skills, and a positive attitude
A knack for balancing architectural decisions with the realities of our technology base and business strategies
Server-side Javascript development (Node, etc.)
Experience with server-side languages, such as Java, Ruby, PHP, or Python
Comfortable working in a Mac and Unix environment
Professional experience with Git