Frontend Engineer III (Remote) (crowdstrike)

Job Description

​​#WeAreCrowdStrike and our mission is to stop breaches. As a global leader in cybersecurity, our team changed the game. Since our inception, our market leading cloud-native platform has offered unparalleled protection against the most sophisticated cyberattacks. We’re looking for people with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to the customer to join us in shaping the future of cybersecurity. Consistently recognized as a top workplace, CrowdStrike is committed to cultivating an inclusive, remote-first culture that offers people the autonomy and flexibility to balance the needs of work and life while taking their career to the next level. Interested in working for a company that sets the standard and leads with integrity? Join us on a mission that matters - one team, one fight.

About the Role:

As a Front-End Engineer at CrowdStrike, you will work with a talented and dedicated team to build and maintain the user interface for the Falcon platform. You will provide a high quality user experience that our customers around the world use 24/7 to protect their systems from the most sophisticated adversaries.

Our JavaScript framework is Ember, but if you've used React, Angular, or Vue.js, you'll feel right at home, and we’ll help you get comfortable with both Ember and our codebase. Since we only support evergreen browsers, we can push the boundaries of what’s possible on the web platform while working with truly massive amounts of data.

Our ideal candidates are sensitive to the needs of the users and love to find solutions in a unique and dynamic problem space. 

Our ideal candidates are sensitive to the needs of the users and love learning more about their tools every day. Get excited about new features in Chrome Devtools? Tested your work in screen readers? Ever lost half an hour getting an animation’s bezier curve to be just the right kind of bouncy? Looking for a challenge that’s out of the ordinary? Get in touch!

About the Team:

 You’ll join the Falcon Foundry group, working on enhancing and extending our cybersecurity focused cloud marketplace that allows CrowdStrike's customers and partners to build and share apps. You'll collaborate closely with UX designers and QA to maintain a consistent user experience across all our products, as well as product management and backend engineers to establish product specifications and features. Our ideal candidate will be responsible for taking full ownership of the delivery of our products, driving the technical aspects, helping the team to define the architecture and coordinating with stakeholders in terms of scope and priorities.  

What You’ll Do:

• Build and maintain single page web applications written in JavaScript using Ember.js

• Lead major initiatives and coordinate with product leadership while collaborating with fellow Front-End Engineers, Cloud Engineers, UX Designers, Technical Writers, User Researchers, QA Analysts,, and others

• Participate in the code review process for your own code and that of your fellow Front-End Engineers, holding yourself and your peers accountable to high standards

• Take initiative and build tools that improve your teams development experience

• Write automated tests for your code

• Mentor other engineers and help them grow in their skills and career

• Continually learn about the ever-evolving challenges and complexities of the cybersecurity industry

• Have fun solving hard problems

What You’ll Need:

• A desire to collaborate closely with users, designers, & testers to deliver quality software that solves problems.

• A deep understanding of Javascript and considerable experience building thick-client applications with modern frameworks such as Ember, AngularJS, Backbone or React/Flux.

• Experience with testing frameworks, tools and methodologies such as QUnit, Mocha & Selenium.

• Functional knowledge & interest in developing genuinely accessible interfaces.

• Strong HTML & CSS skills, with bonus points for experience with animation, knowledge of approaches to scalable/modular CSS, & preprocessors such as SCSS & LESS.

• Familiarity with client-side build processes & tools - git, yarn, npm, Ember CLI etc

• Comfortable with Git/version control workflows.

Bonus Points:

• Experience creating or contributing to open source projects.

• Experience with graphics & visualization tools such as D3 or ThreeJS.

• Interest & experience with design & data visualization.

• Experience with coaxing that last frame-per-second out of browsers.

• Experience with web accessibility testing and support.

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Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:

• Remote-first culture

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards with option to participate in ESPP in eligible countries

• Competitive vacation and flexible working arrangements

• Physical and mental wellness programs 

• Paid parental leave, including adoption 

• A variety of professional development and mentorship opportunities

• Access to CrowdStrike University, LinkedIn Learning and Jhanna

• Offices with stocked kitchens when you need to fuel innovation and collaboration

• Birthday time-off in your local country

• Work with people who are passionate in our mission and Great Place to Work certified across the globe