Lead Engineer, Web Apps
Clyde, United States
Job Description
Lead a team of kind, creative engineers in building web apps while deeply collaborating with Product, Design, and the business at large.
Three reasons you should apply to Clyde Engineering
- The People: A kind, thoughtful, brilliant crew. Be supported as both an engineer and a human being. Build your skills, ship code with pride, and work with earnest people.
- The Product: We love to build design-detailed, best-in-class experiences. Clyde has discovered something good in ecommerce with more to come. We just raised $41M (series B), so it’s a good time to jump in and help us build a company we’ll be proud of.
- Our Character: Humility. Thoughtfulness. Support. Healthy hours. A clear career ladder. Personal and professional growth. And the pride of shipping delightful code with nice people while learning and growing every day. Also, we’ll pay you.
Requirements
Our Tech Stack, and where it meets your skills
You don’t have to know all these things, but what you don’t know you should be excited to learn.
The web is our platform, so we’re looking for
- Semantic markup and the CSS that makes it a joy to experience
- Javascript expertise
- React ecosystem skills
- Cross-browser support: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge
- Responsive Design devices come in all shapes and sizes
- Accessibility and Inclusive Design equal access for everyone
- Healthy API creation and optimization
Our web apps are backed by healthy platforms
- Node.js + Koa, but experience with other node-adjacent frameworks is also cool
- PostgreSQL, but other SQL-like DB work is transferable
- Elasticsearch. Have a better way to do spin up search indexes? We’d love to hear it
- Redis. Because it’s fast
- Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento, SFCC. We integrate with them and others
- Kubernetes, Docker, AWS. DevOps skills are appreciated
As a Lead Engineer, a team will look to you to
- Encourage and model healthy team dynamics and psychological safety
- Support team members without micromanaging the completion of work
- Partner with a Product Manager to define and scope work, breaking down into iterable milestones and parallel tracks where appropriate
- Anticipate projects that may require impactful technical decisions and coordinates discussion, understanding, and consensus on an approach
- Have a high-level understanding of all work undertaken by the team and can represent it at a departmental level
- Balance the distribution of work amongst team members, being mindful of both individual capacity, capability, and knowledge sharing
- Cultivate a culture of quality on the team, ensuring that engineers check their own work and that code reviews are of a high standard
- Ensure the team is considering accessibility, performance, code readability, responsive design, and usability in all projects
And you’ll do it with a team, so
- Be supportive of those around you
- Be open to help from others
- Be able to write clearly: in code, documentation, and Slack conversations
- Be comfortable leading stand ups, retros, and other lightweight versions of agile practices
- Be comfortable saying I don’t know know so that you and your crew can learn something new together
Additional Requirements
- NYC-based
- US Citizen/Greencard required
This position reports to Clyde's VP, Engineering, who is a delight.
Benefits
Who are we?
Clyde is a distributed community of innovators, risk-takers, and trailblazers who celebrate individual differences and recognize that unique perspectives make us stronger, smarter, and more successful. We seek applicants who bring a variety of experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds, and together create wonderful product experiences that help brands sweep customers off their feet. Clyde provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable law - we do our best work when we create space for different voices and perspectives. Whatever unique experiences or skill sets you bring, we look forward to learning from each other. We will ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in any part of the employment process. Please contact us at , and let us know the nature of your request along with your contact information, which we will respond to in a timely manner.
If you’re looking for an opportunity to put your heart into your work at a company that values growth, learning, wellness, and success we’d love to meet you!
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