About the Role:

We are looking for a Front-End Software Engineer interested in building engaging and insightful products for managing and visualizing large scale distributed real-time data streams. Data flow is central to how companies operate, and we aim to make that experience intuitive and attractive. As a Front-End Software Engineer, you will be responsible for creating new visualizations and interfaces that scale with Apache Kafka.

More about our stack:

• Our Cloud UI stack is written in Typescript and built based on React.

• The UI connects to multiple REST and GraphQL APIs.

• We unit test our code with Jest.

• We deploy the UI to production every day, with the ability to test each and every commit in production (even PRs) before it goes live.

• Feature flags unblock us from coordinating releases with backend teams

• Bots keep all of our dependencies up to date

Tech in Toronto! Toronto is an early career engineer hub for Confluent. Your role will be a hybrid working model that introduces you to Confluent's culture and enables faster learning, onboarding, and coaching.

• During the first year of employment, all Software Engineers globally will be required to participate in the SWE Onboarding program and go into their Confluent office 2-3 days (days to be determined) per week.

What You Will Do:

• In this position, you will build engaging and insightful products for managing and visualizing large scale distributed data streams, make data flow intuitive and attractive, and build client-side web applications for data-intensive applications.

  You will:

  • Build new features using advanced knowledge based on user requirements and make revisions to features based on feedback

  • Build platform as a service (PaaS) product

  • Take user requirements and vet the application program interface (API) contracts and user interface (UI) wireframes against them.

  • Work with backend software engineers to understand the API contract and ensure the user experience is not degraded due to performance constraints from the backend APIs.

  • Work with designers to understand and build components styling, from interactions to specification.

  • Work with product managers to build a user experience.

  • Build out a test plan and get sign-off from all stakeholders once development and testing has been completed.

  • Write, monitor, and manage large scale system deployments.

  • Triage Cloud incidents and monitor errors from Confluent's Javascript monitoring service.

  • Triage bugs and troubleshoot production issues.

  • Participate in the code review processes.

  • Write tooling to improve day-to-day workflows.

What You Will Bring:

• Graduated from a Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD program in Computer Science, or a related technical field

• Good knowledge of data structures and algorithms and proficiency in at least one of these languages: JavaScript, C, C++, Python, Go

• Self-motivated and able to drive projects with mentorship and project requirements

• Smart, humble, and empathetic and ability to work effectively in teams and strong verbal and written communication skills

• Ready to make an IMPACT -- Driven and excited about the challenges of a fast-paced, innovative, and quickly growing software development environment

• Interested in building large scale distributed systems

• Experience building web applications for applications

• Experience with JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3

• Experience with React/Flux, modern js tooling (Gulp/Grunt)/Webpack/Babel

• Strong foundation in algorithms and application design