Staff UI Software Engineer

Flexera saves customers billions of dollars in wasted technology spend. A pioneer in Hybrid ITAM and FinOps, Flexera provides award-winning, data-oriented SaaS solutions for technology value optimization (TVO), enabling IT, finance, procurement and cloud teams to gain deep insights into cost optimization, compliance and risks for each business service. Flexera One solutions are built on a set of definitive customer, supplier and industry data, powered by our Technology Intelligence Platform, that enables organizations to visualize their Enterprise Technology Blueprint™ in hybrid environments—from on-premises to SaaS to containers to cloud.

We’re transforming the software industry.  We’re Flexera.  With more than 50,000 customers across the world, we’re achieving that goal. But we know we can’t do any of that without our team.  Ready to help us re-imagine the industry during a time of substantial growth and ambitious plans?  Come and see why we’re consistently recognized by Gartner, Forrester and IDC as a category leader in the marketplace. Learn more at flexera.com

As a UI Engineer in Flexera’s Front-end Engineering team, you will be a leader that drives our technical strategy and the creative spark that finds ways to solve real, challenging industry problems.

Flexera gives companies clarity into their technology “black hole,” helping business leaders turn IT insight into action. With a portfolio of integrated solutions and products that deliver unparalleled technology insights, spend optimization and agility, Flexera helps enterprises realize IT’s full potential to accelerate their business.

As part of a central UI team that spans the US, UK, Europe and Australia, you will be part of a technology forward team building and transforming products within Flexera’s suite.  You will get insight to cloud, big data infrastructure and how to best build front-end capabilities to support Flexera’s architecture.

We are developing with some of the most modern front-end technologies, including React, Redux, TypeScript and Styled Components, working closely with Flexera’s design and product teams to continue to build on our “one source of truth” Component Library that we have just released to NPM.

We are continuing our growth across the globe with new editions to the front-end team in 2020. Our products will give customers the visibility they need to be prepared for financial, operational and security events. The front-end team will be key in building the clean and smart UI for these products. An exciting time to get involved!

Your Responsibilities:

• Use your expertise help contribute to technical roadmap for UI
• Prove your creativity by working alongside the team and product owner to mould the timeline of features and suggesting new ideas
• Demonstrate your passion and skill in the design and construction of beautiful, robust and secure UI applications
• Work in CD environments to continuously deploy features
• Mentor junior front-end developers, while working collaboratively with back-end developers, designers, testers and stakeholders to reach the project goal
• Become familiar with, and contribute to, all aspects of the Flexera platform and applications
• Confidently promote our team’s principles and culture across the organisation

To be successful in the UI engineer role you will need to have some (if not all) of the following attributes:

• Experience of taking a design from wireframe to code
• Skilled in modern JS Framework - (React preferred, Angular desirable)

• Knowledge of TypeScript, ECMAScript 2019 & modern build tools
• Previous experience of the implementation of secure and responsive web applications
• Familiar with maintaining test quality of Unit and E2E tests
• Good understanding of accessibility
• Experience building progressive web apps
• Comfortable with modern SCM for various types of development life cycle
• An understanding of containerisation

The following personal qualities are desired:

• Passionate about self-learning and active in the (local or online) tech community
• Highly motivated in solving problems
• Demonstrates a natural creativity in completing technical tasks
• Prepared to go the extra mile when the team is up against it
• Achieves the right balance of confidence and respect
• Exemplifies leadership and challenges the status-quo when necessary

The role will offer you in return:

• A rare opportunity to be part of a high-performance team and contribute to brand across a suite of products
• A team which values trust and community
• We encourage continuous development with access to Pluralsight, as well as facilitating conference attendance and training courses as needed
• Significant responsibility while remaining completely rooted in the technology
• Opportunity to build a green-field solution on modern cloud architecture using the most advanced engineering principles
• Regular check-ins with your manager to help mentor your career path

Exceptional candidates who do not meet some of the above criteria may be considered if they have relevant alternative experience.

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