Senior Frontend Engineer

At DISCO, we strongly believe in the uniqueness of thought, experience and perspective that can only be achieved through having an inclusive and diverse workforce. We strive to continue to make DISCO an incredible place to work by fostering a culture of inclusiveness, diversity, openness and collaboration. We value all different kinds of experience, so even if you feel you don't meet all of the necessary criteria for this position, we encourage you to apply.

What is DISCO?

DISCO is the industry standard for managing, organising and sharing music and other media. We make music and media workflow fast, intuitive and simple, directly connecting people and their work to save time. Today we count UMG, Sony, Warner Music, Netflix, Amazon and Rockstar Games among our customers, and over 250,000 people interact with DISCO each month. Our customers are super passionate about our product.

Location

Hybrid remote Melbourne preferred, but open to remote in east coast Australia

The Role

A Senior Frontend Software Engineer on the DISCO team assists as both a major contributor and role model in building robust, reusable, and user friendly web and mobile components, interfacing with platform APIs, and finding elegant solutions to complex problems. They guide, mentor and collaborate with other engineers; employ strategic thinking and design knowledge to solve problems; collaborate with cross-functional teams; and help drive a culture of software engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will:

• Build for DISCO - Develop and release with React for the web and mobile applications and collaborate on our technical vision
• Write production-ready code that is clean, scalable and performance optimised, delivering a beautiful, industry leading user experience
• Design with performance, security, and scale in mind.
• Participate in a culture of documentation and knowledge-sharing within your team and with stakeholders
• Make your code easily testable/understood by others, and account for edge cases and errors
• Contribute to the implementation of tools and processes for development, productivity, testing, and debugging code
• Lead planning and discussions for complex projects. Actively participate and enhance the SDLC processes. Advocate for delivering value in increments.
• Keep learning and stay up to date with the latest relevant technologies
• Be an inspiration and mentor for more junior members of the team.

• 7+ years software engineering
• 5+ years writing React and ES6 with modern libraries and frameworks, such as Redux
• Basic React Native experience
• Expert understanding of frontend architecture in large scale apps, routing, code splitting, performance and bundle size optimization, web markup, HTML5, CSS3 and CSS pre-processors
• Understanding of real time/asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, AJAX, websockets and service workers
• Experience with front end ecosystem tools such as Webpack, Javascript testing frameworks, package managers, TypeScript/Flow
• Written and verbal fluency in English
• Proficiency in GIT source control

At DISCO, our employees have told us what benefits mean the most to them, and we've listened. So as a DISCO employee, you will work remotely from home (or a co-working space) whilst being supported by a friendly and fun international team. In addition, you will receive:

• A competitive salary in a fast-growing startup
• Four weeks of paid vacation leave per year
• Two weeks of paid sick leave per year
• Paid Parental Leave
• A company laptop
• Monthly internet allowance/reimbursement
• Office set-up allowance
• Annual learning and development allowance
• The ability to work how you want. We’re not heavy on rule books. Everyone is trusted to figure out the best way to work.

To apply for this incredible position, please submit your resume -- a cover letter is optional.

DISCO is an equal-opportunity employer. In addition, we will provide reasonable accommodations for individuals who have disabilities. If you require any reasonable accommodation to participate in the application process, please note this in your cover letter and we will reach out to you.

Please note that we do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.