Sr. Web Application Engineer

Supermicro® is a Top Tier provider of advanced server, storage, and networking solutions for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/ Big Data, Hyperscale, HPC and IoT/Embedded customers worldwide. We are the #5 fastest growing company among the Silicon Valley Top 50 technology firms. Our unprecedented global expansion has provided us with the opportunity to offer a large number of new positions to the technology community. We seek talented, passionate, and committed engineers, technologists, and business leaders to join us.
 

Super Micro Computer, Inc. is currently seeking a Sr. Web Application Engineer who has both outstanding coding skills and a strong understanding of how to create a great online product configurator. Candidates must be strong in BOTH coding and UX. As a Senior Engineer, you will play an integral role in defining and bringing to life the user interfaces created by the user experience and design teams for hybrid, mobile and web.

Includes the following essential duties and responsibilities (other duties may also be assigned):

• Develop a modern, responsive, lightning-fast web app for Supermicro from scratch

• Good experience on building Product Configurator, ecommerce and approval process

• Optimize app pages for targeted SEO strategies

• Self-directed, self-motivated contributor, able to design and execute their own roadmap rapidly and iteratively

• Architect systems that support reuse and build libraries of components with documentation

• Develop front-ends for responsive mobile and web applications

• Guide product releases, code reviews and delegate tasks to more junior team members to ensure performance and timetables are maintained

• Stay current with trends in the industry and identify technical innovations

• Identify solutions to system performance and usability issues

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field preferred

• 5+ years professional experience as a web application engineer preferred

• Experience with architectural work involving performance optimization, application caching strategies, SQL query optimization, SEO optimization

• Advanced understanding coding concepts and design patterns across multiple languages with a strong preference for Javascript

• Experience and expertise working in HTML5, CSS3, Sass/Less, mixins, polyfills, Javascript (jQuery, node.js, angular.js, Electron), Cordova, REST API's

• Agile Development and Continuous Integration using tools such as Jenkins, Behat, Selenium, etc.

• Able to be autonomous but collaborative to keep tight company-wide deadlines

• Can create simple and clean solutions to complex problems, quickly

• Highly motivated individual with interest in enhancing skills and learning

• Experience in building and maintaining Content Management Systems (CMS) is preferred

• Mobile Development for Web with responsive design experience is highly desired

• Experience with Apache Solr

• Monitoring and performance diagnostics to troubleshoot production systems experience is a huge plus

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job:

• Able to sit for long periods of time.

• Able to input data into a computer and work with a computer screen for long periods of time.

• Occasional bending and standing.

• Standing, walking, sitting, talking/listening, crouching or crawling, reaching with hands and arms.

• Lift, carry, push and pull up to 15 pounds.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job:

• Primarily works indoors in an office setting with controlled climate conditions

• May be susceptible to outdoor weather conditions (i.e., cold, heat, rain, and/or wind)

Supermicro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and embraces diversity in our employee population. It is the policy of Supermicro to provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or special disabled veteran, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.