Overview

We are looking for top Javascript developers who want to add to Kibana and X-Pack.

Engineering Philosophy

Engineering a highly complex distributed system that is easy to operate via elegantly designed APIs is a non-trivial effort. It requires solid software development skills, and more importantly, a sharp mind and the ability to think like a user. We also care deeply about giving you full ownership of what you’re working on. Our company fundamentally believes great minds achieve greatness when they are set free and are surrounded and challenged by their peers, which is clearly visible in our organization. At Elastic, we effectively don’t have a hierarchy to speak of. We feel that anyone needs to be in the position to comment on absolutely anything, regardless of his or her role within the company.

Responsibilities

  • Innovate, lead and contribute to front end and visualization experience of the Kibana and other UI products using JavaScript
  • Collaborate with other development teams, quality engineering team, and documentation team to execute on product deliverables

Area Lead Responsibilities

  • Organize efforts around and advocate for roadmap
  • Manage the functional area’s roadmap and help to make sure it is aligned with our overall team priorities
  • Ensure product quality
  • Work with team members to help them implement appropriate tests and code reviews
  • Ensure technical quality
  • Pay attention to technical debt and help manage it vs. roadmap items
  • Run the sync meetings and participate in any design reviews
  • Facilitate the sync meetings and communicate with PM and other stakeholders
  • Provide feedback to the UI Team Lead
  • Work with the Team Lead to make sure the team performs well and is appropriately resourced

Skills & Requirements

  • Strong JavaScript programming skills
  • 7+ years of front end development work
  • Experience with one modern MVC style JS Framework
  • Experience writing automated tests
  • Experience as a lead engineer on a team of three or more engineers
  • Ability to work in a fast paced start-up environment
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, a team player with strong analytical, problem solving, debugging and troubleshooting skills
  • Strong preference for operational experience
  • Strong preference for knowledge of building complex data visualization and related tooling
  • Strong preference for Open Source experience

Additional Information

  • Extremely competitive pay, medical, dental, vision, disability, benefits
  • Stock options
  • Catered lunches, snacks, and beverages in most offices
  • An environment in which you can balance great work with a great life
  • Passionate people building great products
  • Employees with a wide variety of interests
  • 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.
  • Distributed-first company with employees in over 23 countries, spread across 18 time zones, and speaking over 30 languages! Some even fly south for the winter 🙂

Elastic is an Equal Employment employer committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action for all applicants and employees. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation. Elastic also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled employees consistent with applicable law.

About Elastic

Elastic is on a mission to make real-time data exploration easy and available to anyone. As the company behind the popular open source projects Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, we're looking to hire team members invested in realizing this goal.

Founded in 2012 in Amsterdam by the people behind Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene, Elastic set forth a vision that search can solve a plethora of data problems. The origins of the company start back in 2010 when Shay Banon wrote the first lines of Elasticsearch and open sourced it as a distributed search engine.

With the rise of cloud computing and changes in IT infrastructure demanding requirements such as real-time search across infinite amounts of structured and unstructured data, Shay foresaw the need for a new type of software to solve today’s real-world data problems. Steven Schuurman, Uri Boness, and Simon Willnauer shared in Shay’s vision, joining forces to create the Elastic company we have today.

Since then, the creators of Kibana, Logstash, and Beats have joined the Elastic family, rounding out a product portfolio known as the Elastic Stack, which is used by millions of developers around the world. The Elastic family unites employees across 32 countries into one coherent team, while the broader community spans across over 100 countries.