Senior Frontend Developer

CloudBees enables enterprises to deliver scalable, compliant, and secure software, empowering developers to do their best work.

Seamlessly integrating into any hybrid and heterogeneous environment, CloudBees is more than a tool—it's a strategic partner in your cloud transformation journey, ensuring security, compliance, and operational efficiency while enhancing the developer experience across your entire software development lifecycle. It allows developers to bring and execute their code anywhere, providing greater flexibility and freedom through fast, self-serve, and secure workflows.

CloudBees supports organizations at every step of their DevSecOps journey, whether using Jenkins on-premise or transitioning software delivery to the cloud. We’re helping customers build the future, today.

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer at CloudBees, you will be an essential contributor to the development of our industry-leading software products. As part of the SaaS CloudBees platform teams, you will join the front end development team, working closely with the user experience team and the product management team to produce the next generation automation platform. Within a fast-paced environment, working iteratively in an agile team, building collective ownership gives endless opportunities to learn from your pair colleagues.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain security products that enable organizations to streamline their software development and delivery processes by providing the Sec element of DevSecOps. This includes creating tools, plugins, and integrations that enhance the capabilities of the CloudBees product suite.
• Develop the next generation SaaS automation platform while using it.
• Collaborate with the Product Management team on User Interface requirements, and translating these requirements into the SaaS platform.
• Work closely with Team Lead and Backend Engineers to define API requirements needed to facilitate the User Interface.
• Work in close collaboration with UX designers and research team to try/shape new patterns and interactions.
• Implement best practices for code quality, automated testing, and code reviews to ensure software reliability and performance.
• Write unit tests, integration tests, and perform code reviews to maintain high standards.
• Work on new feature development and product enhancements based on customer feedback and industry trends.
• Continuously innovate and propose improvements to existing software solutions.
• Analyze and address complex technical challenges and issues that arise during the software development lifecycle.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve technical problems efficiently.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including design specifications, user guides, and best practice guidelines.
• Share knowledge and contribute to internal and external technical communities.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, such as sprint planning, stand-up meetings, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to ensure alignment and efficient project execution.
• Share your expertise and mentor engineers, helping them grow and develop their skills.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement within the team.
• Stay updated with the latest technologies, tools, and cloud computing. Proactively learn and adapt to new technologies to drive innovation.

Role Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a significant focus on JavaScript, React, Typescript, HTML, patterns, and best practices.
• Strong technical knowledge of React (functional components).
• Experience working with Typescript.
• Strong demonstrable knowledge in JavaScript ES6, Typescript, CSS, CSS-in-JS libraries such as styled-components or emotion is required.
• Automated testing and unit test experience is a must (Playwright, Jest, Cypress).
• Experience of working with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Ticket management.
• Strong understanding of front-end development concepts like accessibility, performance, responsive designs, and caching is must.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms from a front-end engineering lens (e.g., AWS, Azure) is highly desirable and advanced CI/CD practices are preferable.
• Proven ability to lead and guide technical projects and initiatives.
• Good knowledge of REST API best practices.
• Basic knowledge of GCP architecture concepts, and relational database concepts.
• Ability (and preference) to work in an Agile empowered environment and ability to work autonomously.
• Ability to innovate in a fast-paced industry.
• Strong English verbal and written communication skills and demonstrated technical leadership.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills, architectural insight, and a track record of successful projects.
• Proven ability to lead and influence technical decisions across the organization.

We’re invested in you!

We offer generous paid time off to allow our employees time to rest, recharge and to be present with family and friends throughout the year. At CloudBees, we truly believe that the more diverse we are, the better we serve our customers. A global community like Jenkins demands a global focus from CloudBees. Organizations with greater diversity—gender, racial, ethnic, and global—are stronger partners to their customers.

Whether by creating more innovative products, or better understanding our worldwide customers, or establishing a stronger cross-section of cultural leadership skills, diversity strengthens all aspects of the CloudBees organization. In the technology industry, diversity creates a competitive advantage. CloudBees customers demand technologies from us that solve their software development, and therefore their business problems, so that they can better serve their own customers. CloudBees attributes much of its success to its worldwide work force and commitment to global diversity, which opens our proprietary software to innovative ideas from anywhere.

Along the way, we have witnessed firsthand how employees, partners, and customers with diverse perspectives and experiences contribute to creative problem-solving and better solutions for our customers and their businesses.