Principal Front-end Engineer
Job Summary
Job Description
As a Principal Front-end Engineer, you will be a key player in developing Cognite Data Fusion, a platform solving complex industrial data problems. You'll work with various technologies, design user-friendly solutions, and collaborate with stakeholders in a fast-paced environment. Responsibilities include designing and implementing elegant user experiences, being actively involved in product and technical direction, and working closely with skilled users to understand their needs. You will be part of a team with the best domain and industry experts and collaborate to build innovative products.
Must have:
- Experience as a lead developer architecting front-end tiers.
- Solid grasp of JavaScript and enjoy the benefits of TypeScript.
- Front-end experience in frameworks like React or Angular.
- Experience with cloud development, including Kubernetes or Docker.
Good to have:
- Experience in process industry projects.
- Knowledge of GraphQL or graph databases.
- Experience building mobile applications.
- Experience building backend services with Kotlin, Java or Python.
- Demonstrated history of presenting at conferences or meetups.
Perks:
- Competitive Compensation including base plus bonus
- 401(k) with 4% employer matching
- Health, Dental, Vision & Disability Coverages
- Unlimited PTO + flexibility to enjoy it
- 18 Company Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave Program
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
- Employee Referral Program
- In office catered lunches 3x per week via Colorfull Catering + Fully Stocked Fridges in the offices
- Join a team of 70 different nationalities 🌐 with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) in focus 🤝.
- A highly modern and fun working environment
- Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries
- Paid mobile phone and WiFi
- Meet Spot 🐶!
19 skills required
Job Details
About Cognite
Embark on a transformative journey with Cognite, a global SaaS forerunner in leveraging data to unravel complex business challenges through our cutting-edge Cognite Data Fusion (CDF) platform. We were awarded the 2022 Technology Innovation Leader for Global Digital Industrial Platforms & Cognite was recognized as 2024 Microsoft Energy and Resources Partner of the Year. In the realm of industrial digitalization, we stand at the forefront, reshaping the future of Oil & Gas, Manufacturing and Energy sectors. Join us in this venture where data meets ingenuity, and together, we forge the path to a smarter, more connected industrial future.
Learn more about Cognite here
Our values
Impact: Cogniters strive to make an impact in all that they do. We are result-oriented, always asking ourselves.
Ownership: Cogniters embrace a culture of ownership. We go beyond our comfort zones to contribute to the greater good, fostering inclusivity and sharing responsibilities for challenges and success.
Relentless: Cogniters are relentless in their pursuit of innovation. We are determined and deliverable (never ruthless or reckless), facing challenges head-on and viewing setbacks as opportunities for growth.
The Product team is the team responsible for developing Cognite Data Fusion as a robust and scalable platform for solving industrial data problems. The industrial data challenge is at the heart of transforming asset-intensive industries to be safer, more sustainable and more profitable. Cognite’s Cognite Data Fusion makes the operational data available at scale and adds value to the data through data processing. This enables asset-intensive industries to make data-driven decisions. Our platform is built on many different technologies, each good at solving various challenges.
To describe complex industrial installations we use knowledge graphs, and are developing the platform and tools that enable our customers to collect and harness all this knowledge to make their work safer, more sustainable and efficient.
To build the best possible product, we believe in autonomous teams with developers, designers and product managers working closely together. Our teams are working on building the next-generation industrial data platform and applications across many different industries, such as Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, and Power & Utility. This includes enabling all types of workflows, including analytics, to assist in making better decisions. We are a good mix of engineers, products, and design. What we have in common is that we care deeply about the user experience and that we create products that users really want to use.
Our work environment is exciting, dynamic and intense. You will work with the best domain and industry experts: designers, product managers, backend developers, ML engineers, 3D developers and business leaders. We support one another, ask good questions, and give each other constructive feedback. Our goal is to leverage our diverse set of strengths and backgrounds to build innovative products, to think outside the ordinary, and nurture a great culture.
Key responsibilities in the role as our Lead Front-end Engineer:
- Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies and own and solve problems end-to-end
- Collaborate in a fast-paced environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
- Design solutions for users that help them get their jobs done, turning complex industrial knowledge into understandable visuals and questions into graph queries
- Design and implement elegant user experiences
- Be actively involved in setting product and technical direction and decision making
- Work closely with our skilled users to understand their needs and build products to help them succeed
About you:
- Experience as a lead developer on projects with architecting front-end tiers for complex domains
- You have a solid grasp of JavaScript and enjoy the benefits of TypeScript
- You have front-end experience in frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue, or something similar
- You have experience with cloud development, which may include Kubernetes, Docker or other related technologies, familiarity with Azure, AWS and GCP is a plus
- Ability to learn other coding languages and use the language best fit for purpose
- You can prioritize your tasks and distribute your time and resources most efficiently to optimize for impact
- You write well-structured, efficient, and maintainable code and actively keep the quality of the codebase in check
- Experience in process industry projects
- Knowledge of GraphQL or graph databases
- Experience building mobile applications
- Experience building backend services with Kotlin, Java or Python
- Demonstrated history (with examples) of presenting at conferences or meetups is a plus
As we are hiring across several teams, many past experiences can be a bonus, for example:
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
A snapshot of our many perks and benefits as a Cogniter
* Competitive Compensation including base plus bonus
* 401(k) with 4% employer matching
* Health, Dental, Vision & Disability Coverages with premiums fully covered for employees and all dependents
* Unlimited PTO + flexibility to enjoy it
* 18 Company Holidays including the week between Christmas & New Years
* Paid Parental Leave Program
* Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
* Employee Referral Program
* In office catered lunches 3x per week via Colorfull Catering + Fully Stocked Fridges in the offices
* Join a team of 70 different nationalities 🌐 with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) in focus 🤝.
* A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture across the organization, follow us on Instagram @cognitedata 📷 to know more
* Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries
* Join our HUB 🗣️ to be part of the conversation directly with Cogniters and our partners.
* Paid mobile phone and WiFI
*A pet lover? Get the chance to meet Spot 🐶!
Why choose Cognite? 🏆 🚀
* Join us in making a real and lasting impact in one of the most exciting and fastest-growing new software companies in the world.
* We have repeatedly demonstrated that digital transformation, when anchored on strong DataOps, drives business value and sustainability for clients and allows front-line workers, as well as domain experts, to make better decisions every single day.
* Built In 2024 Best Places to Work in Austin, TX and Houston, TX
Apply today!
If you're excited about the opportunity to work at Cognite and make a difference in the tech industry, we encourage you to apply today! We welcome candidates of all backgrounds and identities to join our team.
We encourage you to follow us on Cognite LinkedIn; we post all our openings there.
Equal Opportunity
Cognite is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment at work and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive the same level of consideration for employment; everyone we hire will receive the same level of consideration for training, compensation, and promotion.
We ask for gender as part of our application because we want to ensure equal assessment in the recruitment process. Your answer will help us reach this commitment! However, the question about gender is optional and your choice not to answer will not affect the assessment of your application in any way.
Similar Jobs
DataVisor
New York, United States (Remote)
• 2 Months ago
Temporal Technologies
Chicago, Illinois, United States (Remote)
• 1 Month ago
Alpha Sense
Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland (Hybrid)
• 1 Month ago
bytedance
San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
• 8 Months ago
Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded
Similar Skill Jobs
Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded
Jobs in Austin, Texas, United States
Scout
Columbia, South Carolina, United States (On-Site)
• 1 Week ago
Sony pictures animation
Los Angeles, California, United States (On-Site)
• 3 Months ago
bytedance
San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
• 8 Months ago
IGN
Los Angeles, California, United States (Hybrid)
• 1 Month ago
bytedance
San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
• 8 Months ago
Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded
Frontend Development Jobs
Bazaar Voice
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (Hybrid)
• 3 Months ago
Canva
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Remote)
• 2 Months ago
Mcdonalds
Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico (On-Site)
• 3 Months ago
Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded
