Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, enhance conversions, and help businesses stand out.

Headquartered in the U.S., Acquia has been named a top software company by The Software Report, rated a leader by the analyst community, and named a top place to work by the Boston Globe and the Boston Business Journal. We are Acquia. We are building for the future and we want you to be a part of it!

The Content Cloud Engineering team at Acquia is responsible for building and maintaining the combined Acquia DAM (Digital Asset Management) and PIM (Product Information Management) product line, which is used by over 800 customers worldwide.

Acquia is seeking a Senior Front End Software Engineer to implement modern, user-centric applications, in a fast-paced software environment. We thrive on innovation, collaboration, and an agile mindset and processes. Our current software portfolio consists of SaaS applications that handle graphic and video content, product information, and analytics.

Our competitive market landscape drives us to adopt technologies that allow for high developer involvement and productivity, as well as instant feedback loops. Our technology stack and tools include React, Typescript, GitHub, Java, Groovy, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Docker, AWS, Slack, and JIRA, just to name a few.

AS A SENIOR FRONT END SOFTWARE ENGINEER, YOU WILL…

Write quality, maintainable code using front-end best practices
Give and receive feedback as a collaborative member of your team
Complete code reviews
Participate in the agile development process through technical discussions, daily stand-up meetings, code demos, and retrospectives
Recommend tools, techniques, and processes to continuously improve front-end platform
Work with the User Experience (UX) team to ensure technical feasibility and visual consistency
Contribute to a shared component pattern library
Work with the front end tooling and build process

YOU’LL ENJOY THIS ROLE IF YOU…

Have a passion for quickly adopting new technologies
Are willing to learn from others and teach your peers
Enjoy improving the developer experience
Understand that the user experience is just as important as decisions made in the codebase

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL…

5+ years of relevant software development experience
Experience with modern, responsive web applications
Strong problem-solving skills
Excellent HTML5 and CSS skills
Solid understanding of modern JavaScript frameworks, Typescript and related technologies
Proficiency with frontend tooling and the build process: builds, linting, deployment, testing
Experience architecting modular components for code reuse
Experience writing unit tests and contributing to automated tests
Ability to develop well-structured responsive, cross-browser compatible, and performant code
Experience working with RESTful APIs
Track record of picking up new technologies and skills quickly
Ability to work independently and in a team environment
Can participate in architecture discussions
Ability to translate the vision of the UX team
Ability to empathize with your users and help create accessible, inclusive experiences
Experience with Git

EXTRA CREDIT FOR…

Experience with Playwright
Experience with React
Experience with GraphQL
Experience with internationalization

ACQUIA IS PROUD TO PROVIDE BEST-IN-CLASS BENEFITS OFFERINGS TO OUR EMPLOYEES AND THEIR FAMILIES IN MAINTAINING BOTH A HEALTHY BODY AND A HEALTHY MIND. CORE BENEFITS INCLUDE: COMPETITIVE HEALTHCARE COVERAGE, WELLNESS PROGRAMS, TAKE IT WHEN YOU NEED IT TIME OFF, PARENTAL LEAVE, RECOGNITION PROGRAMS, AND MUCH MORE!

Acquia is an equal opportunity (EEO) employer. We hire without regard to age, color, disability, gender (including gender identity), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.

Interested residents of Colorado may contact NA-recruiting@acquia.com as it relates to regulation C.R.S. § 8-5-201. Information regarding benefits are linked here.

Senior Front End Engineer