Senior Frontend Engineer

We are currently seeking a talented Senior Frontend Engineer to join our dynamic team at the DarkCity, a vital part of the Identity Cluster. DarkCity is a team of 8 skilled professionals, who are dedicated to delivering top-notch user identification components such as login, multifactor authentication and account recovery. As a team, our main focus is on providing unparalleled security and user experience to our clients. On the front-end side we rely on technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript and React. You would work with an Agile development team to form a product that serves over 5 million active users. You would completely own and continually improve critical features in the LastPass browser extension and web application to secure our customers digital life and work.

If you are passionate about complex problem solving and motivated by scale, then this is the role for you!

If you are a passionate engineer who wants to work in an innovative and challenging environment, then we encourage you to apply for this position.

Who will you work with?

• You will work closely with the agile teams responsible for the development and maintenance of authentication related topics
• You will collaborate with engineers, product managers and designers and shape the future of the product by defining an adequate strategy to verify the software. You are expected to enable the scrum team to create quality software.
• You will also work with the support team, assessing and evaluating incoming issues and their severity. Help the team fix the customer issues with speed and quality

 What are some of the exciting challenges you will be working on?

• Developing and delivering quality code for the browser extension and LastPass web application using the following tech stack: React, TypeScript, JavaScript
• Taking full ownership at every stage of the development and the delivery – plan, design, develop, ship, maintain
• Debug and troubleshoot issues to support our users
• Actively participating in the team’s life with ownership mindset – drive conversations on meetings, maintain, follow, and advocate guidelines and industry standards, highlight best practices, and keep learning new techniques
• Proactively share knowledge, review pull requests, discuss technical implementations, mentor, and help other team members, bring ideas to improve the product
• Participate in requirement analysis, high level planning and estimation. Collaborate with product owners and user experience designers to deliver features while meeting team deadlines.
• Advocate for proper analysis and resolution of non-functional requirements, such as security, usability, performance, etc.
• Help Product Management in keeping cost and benefits. Avoid golden plating without building unmanageable technical debt.
• Develop, test, and maintain the solutions in the domain of your team
• Cooperate with other teams working on the product
• Create and maintain internal technical documentation
• Participate in code reviews
• Participate in community driven decision making. Maintain our coding- and design guidelines and influence the technical roadmap.
• Work complying with our processes
• Coach and mentor less senior engineers.

What does it take to work at LastPass?

• Experience with JavaScript and TypeScript
• Experience with at least one modern frontend framework, preferably React
• Experience in HTML and CSS
• Good written and verbal communication skills in English
• BSC or higher or equivalent practical experience
• Effective team player
• Creates and knowns best practices
• Efficiently participates in the completion of complex tasks
• Consistently sees the overall big picture situation, besides focusing on the details and specific tasks
• Excellent problem-solving ability
• Ability to transfer knowledge effectively

It's great, but not required:

• Experience with Redux
• Any experience with PHP