Senior Software Engineer, Frontend (Platform)

Cresta; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech company innovating in AI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Frontend to join their Toronto team. The role involves playing a key part in the frontend platform engineering, collaborating with various teams to build and improve the platform while upholding best practices. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, solid coding skills, and extensive experience with React or Angular. Attractive benefits include medical plans, paid parental leave, and a health & wellness allowance.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision plans

Paid parental leave

Monthly Health & Wellness allowance

Work from home office stipend

Lunch reimbursement

PTO: 3 weeks in Canada

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in relevant domains.
• Experience using React or Angular in large scale products.

Responsibilities

• Play a substantial role in the platform frontend engineering team.
• Work with product and engineering teams to improve the Cresta platform.
• Analyze the technical tradeoffs and own customer facing deliverables.
• Develop high quality and well-tested system components.
• Identify product improvement opportunities.

Skills

Strong Computer Science fundamentals

Solid coding skills

Familiar with React or Angular

Designing and maintaining frontend architecture

Experience as a technical lead

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Frontend (Platform)

Toronto, Canada

Cresta is on a mission to turn every customer conversation into a competitive advantage by unlocking the true potential of the contact center. Our platform combines the best of AI and human intelligence to help contact centers discover customer insights and behavioral best practices, automate conversations and inefficient processes, and empower every team member to work smarter and faster. Born from the prestigious Stanford AI lab, Cresta's co-founder and chairman is Sebastian Thrun, the genius behind Google X, Waymo, Udacity, and more. Our leadership also includes CEO, Ping Wu, the co-founder of Google Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platform, and CTO & co-founder, Tim Shi, an early member of Open AI.

We’ve assembled a world-class team of AI and ML experts, go-to-market leaders, and top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Sequoia, and former AT&T CEO John Donovan. Our valued customers include brands like Intuit, Cox Communications, Hilton, and Carmax and we’ve been recognized by Forbes and Bain Consulting as one of the top private AI companies in the world.

Join us on this thrilling journey to revolutionize the workforce with AI. The future of work is here, and it's at Cresta.

About the role:

The Platform Frontend team is focused on building and maintaining a robust platform that supports all frontend development. This team oversees key areas like architecture, design patterns, frameworks, libraries, UI components, development environments, tools, and deployment processes. They also ensure performance, security, and best practices are upheld. By organizing the frontend landscape into product-driven and engineering-driven dimensions, the Frontend Platform team promotes clear ownership, efficient collaboration, and the delivery of high-quality, inclusive frontend solutions that meet Cresta’s diverse business needs.

Responsibilities:

• Play a substantial role in the platform frontend engineering team.
• Work with Cresta product and engineering teams, build and continuously improve the Cresta platform and new product requirements.
• Stay closely with customers and their requirements, analyze the technical tradeoffs, own the customer facing deliverables.
• Develop high quality, well designed, reusable, and well-tested system components, and contribute to the overall system designs.
• Constantly identifies product improvement opportunities and generates product improvement ideas.
• Demonstrate the engineering best practices in deliverables and daily work. Uphold others to the same high standards.
• Technical ownership in a substantial part of the Cresta product and platform.
• Contribute to building the best-in-class company in addition to building the best-in-class product.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field. Strong Computer Science fundamentals.
• 8+ years of experience in relevant domains.
• Very solid coding skills.
• Familiar with React or Angular. Have used at least one of them in large scale consumer-facing products.
• Proficient in designing and maintaining clear frontend architecture.
• Experience as a technical lead of frontend stack supporting various product features.

Benefits:

• We offer Cresta employees a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit you and your family’s needs
• Paid parental leave to support you and your family
• Monthly Health & Wellness allowance
• Work from home office stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment
• Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees
• PTO: 3 weeks in Canada

Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable. We are actively hiring for this role in the US and Canada. Your recruiter can provide further details.

As set forth in Cresta’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.