About Albert Invent

Albert‘s mission is to foster a software platform that uses big data and machine learning to drastically accelerate the invention of new formulations and novel materials. We are looking for a Staff Front End Engineer to provide hands-on leadership to a newly formed team & help build the product. This role suits those who have a passion for building robust and sophisticated web applications focused on enterprise at scale.

What you’ll do

• Act as a passionate representative of the Albert product and brand.
• Provide strong technical hands-on leadership and focus on continuous improvement.
• Evaluate our current plans and proposals for evolving Albert’s front-end platform. Propose, build consensus on, and enact any necessary changes to our technical roadmap.
• Work directly with the Head of Product to take product requirements and translate them into generic, scalable technical solutions
• Own and drive a part of the long-term technical roadmap in collaboration with staff engineers across the company as part of a platform architecture working group.
• Mentor other engineers. Impart best practices through code review and pair programming.

You will have

• 10+ years of frontend engineering experience. 3+ years, leading the team or architecture
• Extensive hands-on experience with Angular, react, or other Front end libraries.
• Experience building micro-front end.
• Experience owning and driving front-end system architecture design, implementation, and evolution
• Strong understanding of web and API standards such as REST
• A detail oriented eye and care for user experience
• Experience building interactive and scalable data tables (like Excel) is a plus
• Extensive Experience working on and supporting systems of scale, including a deep understanding of:

o Data volume and caching concerns

o Impact of front-end requests on back-end systems

o Impact of API and database query performance on the front-end experience

o Page load and time-to-interactive performance metrics as well as contributing factors

o Deployment strategies and tooling

o Design choices and best practices for all the above

• A reputation as a strong collaborator—this role and level explicitly requires the ability to build a unified direction across stakeholders and partner teams. The ideal candidate can clearly articulate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, communicate constructively with colleagues, executives, and customers, and strategically adapt their communication style, frequency, and medium for maximum effectiveness based on the audience, the topic, and the business environment.

Why Albert

• Revenue from day 1. The product is loved and used by thousands of users.
• Small team. Flexible hrs. Meet for collaboration, learning, and socializing.
• Think different. Challenge status Quo. Result oriented.
• Global, Diverse & down to earth.
• No micro-management.
• Build software for a sustainable future.
• No coding tests, no fancy college degree. Hiring based on Fundamentals, Attitude, diverse Thinking, and Experience (FATE).