Overview

GitHub is looking for a Senior Front-End Software Engineer to join a small team in our application engineering group. If you’re excited about building great real-time experiences that change how people build software collaboratively then we’d love to talk to you.

Responsibilities:

  • Communicate persuasively with peers to inspire cooperation
  • Mentor, pair, and delegate work to encourage the growth of those around them
  • Employ fundamental design patterns and provide examples for others to follow
  • Make well-reasoned decisions that inspire and energize others
  • Become intimately familiar with the systems they build and take pride in writing maintainable code
  • Are technical leaders who break down work so that others can contribute confidently
  • Help recruit, interview, and generally make GitHub a great home for developers

We value collaboration, empathy, quality, making a positive impact, and shipping. You will excel when your work reflects these values.

In this position, you will work closely with an engineering manager, designers, product folks, and, of course, other excellent developers. You will also be part of a community dedicated to making a positive impact at work and at large.

Qualifications:

  • You have been a technical lead on a team that built something you are proud of
  • You have 5+ years experience building web applications with JavaScript
  • You are familiar with ES6 or are comfortable learning
  • You have used “live update” technologies such as WebSockets or Server Sent Events
  • You are known for being a great communicator and use various tactics (pictures, metaphors, story telling etc) to improve understanding
  • You write tests to improve the design and quality of code
  • You are organized and focused when working toward a goal
  • You show humility when you are right and have the confidence to admit mistakes
  • You are passionate about building products that developers love

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Can wrangle a backend web framework such as Rails or Node / Express
  • Are familiar with client-side frameworks such as React
  • Have experience with data access and modeling using GraphQL or SQL

About GitHub

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over nine million people use GitHub to build amazing things together. With the collaborative features of GitHub.com, our desktop and mobile apps, and GitHub Enterprise, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write better code, faster.

You will have a lot of exciting things to do, and you could grow with us!

Why you should join:

Working at GitHub is, to put it simply, a special slice of the universe. You could join us in our commitment to transparency, collaboration, experimentation, and always staying classy.

Because of this unique perspective, we've established one of the most flexible and well designed physical workspaces around that encourages you to work as you work best. Right now, over 60% of our employees are based outside of our San Francisco (SOMA) headquarters and work according to how they get their best stuff done. Remote GitHubbers also come visit SF often and are encouraged to stay as long as they like!

Ensuring that you are healthy, motivated, focused and creative is how GitHub stays awesome. Part of this is ensuring that our benefits are out of this world.

In a nutshell, we've built and are growing a place in which you will truly love working.