Senior Software Developer

Elastic
Canada
On-site

Who this role is best for

Candidates with full-stack JavaScript expertise and a user-focused mindset will find this senior role at Elastic engaging, especially if they thrive in a distributed team environment.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a strong background in full-stack JavaScript and experience leading complex projects end-to-end
    — “Own complex, loosely-defined problems end-to-end”
  • Candidates who have delivered significant UI improvements that increased user engagement and are comfortable with TypeScript and React
    — “Design and implement intuitive user interface components that enhance user commitment, using TypeScript, React, and Node.js”
  • Candidates with a multiplier mindset who can elevate team performance and promote reusable components
    — “A multiplier mindset ! you make the engineers around you better”

Things to consider

  • The role requires a balance between generalist skills and deep technical judgment in system design.
    — “Proficient architecture and system-design judgment, including in large, existing codebases”
  • Candidates must be able to work asynchronously across time zones with a distributed team.
    — “Collaborate async across timezones with a fully-distributed team”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with Fleet or Streams and how you improved user commitment through UI work.
    — “Successfully designed and launched multiple user interface components that significantly increased user commitment”
  • Emphasize your ability to lead projects independently and make key technical decisions.
    — “Own complex, loosely-defined problems end-to-end: shape the approach, split the work if needed, make the key technical decisions, and deliver.”
  • Showcase your contributions to coding standards and team knowledge sharing in your resume and interviews.
    — “Establish coding standards and ensure the team adheres to them throughout the development process.”
  • Demonstrate your ability to integrate front-end and back-end systems seamlessly.
    — “Integrate front-end elements seamlessly with back-end services to ensure a smooth user experience.”
  • Mention your experience with AI-assisted development tools to align with the role’s expectations.
    — “You should have experience using AI-assisted development tools.”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

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What success looks like

  • enhanced user interface
  • improved user experience
  • successful project delivery
Typical background
software engineering experiencefull-stack JavaScript

Skills & requirements

Required

TypeScriptReactNode.jsArchitecture And System DesignCoding Standards

Preferred

ReactflowFleet

Stack & domain

TypeScriptReactNode.jsReactflowUser Interface DesignFront-end DevelopmentBack-end DevelopmentCoding StandardsAutomated TestingDeploymentLeadershipProblem-solvingTeamworkCommunicationAdaptabilityStrategic ThinkingSearch AISecurityObservability

About the role

Original posting from Elastic

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Streams UI team, where you'll have the chance to shape and enhance our user interface, making it more intuitive and engaging for our users. In this role, you'll work on Fleet. Fleet is the central management experience for Elastic Agent in Kibana. You'll also work on Streams. Streams is our new tool for handling log data. This includes ingesting, organizing, parsing, enriching, and setting retention for the data. You will be part of a skilled group of engineers and designers. You will contribute your expertise and learn from others. If you enjoy tackling complex challenges and want to make a meaningful impact on our product, we’d love to hear from you.

What You Will Be Doing

Design and implement intuitive user interface components that enhance user commitment, using TypeScript, React, and Node.js. Integrate front-end elements seamlessly with back-end services to ensure a smooth user experience. Conduct usability testing and gather user feedback to drive continuous improvements.

Own complex, loosely-defined problems end-to-end: shape the approach, split the work if needed, make the key technical decisions, and deliver.

Lead discussions on architecture and system design. During these discussions, consider trade-offs. Also, think about backwards compatibility, performance, and scale.

Establish coding standards and ensure the team adheres to them throughout the development process. Promote reusable components to improve efficiency and implement automated testing and deployment to maintain code quality. Evaluate new technologies for potential integration and document best practices to facilitate team-wide knowledge sharing.

Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices. Offer constructive feedback and identify potential security vulnerabilities in the codebase. Focus on maintaining code readability and facilitate discussions with team members to address any findings from the code review.

Collaborate async across timezones with a fully-distributed team, working in the open on GitHub and in Slack.

Partner closely with designers and product managers to apprehend user experience goals and translate their mockups into functional UI components. Ensure a consistent visual design across all UI elements. Participate in brainstorming sessions to generate innovative ideas for enhancing the user interface.

What You Bring 

Solid production experience with full-stack JavaScript, preferably TypeScript ; React on the front end and Node.js on the back end. Some experience with Reactflow is a plus.

A track record of leading non-trivial projects end-to-end, with real design ownership and minimal guidance.

Proficient architecture and system-design judgment, including in large, existing codebases.

Successfully designed and launched multiple user interface components that significantly increased user commitment

You should have experience using AI-assisted development tools. These tools can help you develop features faster, fix complex systems, and improve existing codebases.

Exemplary written and verbal communication, and a genuine excitement for async collaboration and knowledge-sharing.

A multiplier mindset ! you make the engineers around you better.

A generalist streak and a user-focused mindset, with consideration for the people using your software.

Bonus Points

Experience with the Elastic stack, observability tooling, or log/data-ingestion pipelines.

Go, Kubernetes, or cloud-native application development experience.

Experience building large user interfaces that manage a lot of data. This includes skills in search, filtering, and tables. You should also have experience working with streaming or real-time data.

Prior open-source / working-in-the-open experience, or time on a developer-facing platform team.

Experience mentoring engineers or leading a small project team.

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary.  This role does not have a variable compensation component.  The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below. 

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.  

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program.  Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:$128,300—$203,000 CADAdditional Information - We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary

Health coverage for you and your family in many locations

Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles

Generous number of vacation days each year

Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service

Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love

Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

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