Senior Full Stack Software Developer (Observability)

Elastic; Greater London; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and family

Flexible location and schedule

Generous vacation days per year

Parental leave benefits

Volunteer hours per year

Charitable donation matching

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Streams UI team to shape and enhance the user interface. You will work on Fleet for Elastic Agent in Kibana and on Streams for log data handling, ingesting, organizing, parsing, enriching, and setting retention.

You’ll collaborate with engineers and designers to deliver intuitive UI components and ensure a smooth user experience. You will own complex end-to-end problems, drive architecture discussions, establish coding standards, and lead

Qualifications

• Solid production experience with full-stack JavaScript, preferably TypeScript; React on the front end and Node.js on the back end.
• Experience designing and launching UI components that increase user engagement.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools.
• Strong architecture and system-design judgment, especially in large codebases.
• Proven track record leading non-trivial projects end-to-end with design ownership.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, and enthusiasm for async collaboration.
• Experience with Elastic stack, observability tooling, or log ingestion pipelines.
• Experience mentoring engineers or leading a small project team.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement intuitive UI components using TypeScript, React, and Node.js.
• Integrate front-end with back-end services for a smooth user experience.
• Conduct usability testing and gather user feedback for continuous improvements.
• Lead architecture discussions, considering trade-offs and scalability.
• Promote reusable components, implement automated testing and deployment.
• Perform thorough code reviews and address security concerns.
• Collaborate asynchronously across time zones with a distributed team.
• Partner with designers and product managers to translate mockups into UI.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

System design

Async collaboration

User focus

Tools

React

Node.js

Reactflow

Go

Kubernetes

Elastic Stack

Job description

• We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Streams UI team, where you’ll have the chance to shape and enhance our user interface, making it more intuitive and engaging for our users


• In this role, you’ll work on Fleet. Fleet is the central management experience for Elastic Agent in Kibana


• You’ll also work on Streams. Streams is our new tool for handling log data


• This includes ingesting, organizing, parsing, enriching, and setting retention for the data


• You will be part of a skilled group of engineers and designers


• You will contribute your expertise and learn from others


• If you enjoy tackling complex challenges and want to make a meaningful impact on our product, we’d love to hear from you


• Design and implement intuitive user interface components that enhance user commitment, using TypeScript, React, and Node.js. Integrate front-end elements seamlessly with back-end services to ensure a smooth user experience. Conduct usability testing and gather user feedback to drive continuous improvements


• Own complex, loosely-defined problems end-to-end: shape the approach, split the work if needed, make the key technical decisions, and deliver


• Lead discussions on architecture and system design. During these discussions, consider trade-offs. Also, think about backwards compatibility, performance, and scale


• Establish coding standards and ensure the team adheres to them throughout the development process. Promote reusable components to improve efficiency and implement automated testing and deployment to maintain code quality. Evaluate new technologies for potential integration and document best practices to facilitate team-wide knowledge sharing


• Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices. Offer constructive feedback and identify potential security vulnerabilities in the codebase. Focus on maintaining code readability and facilitate discussions with team members to address any findings from the code review


• Collaborate async across timezones with a fully-distributed team, working in the open on GitHub and in Slack


• Partner closely with designers and product managers to apprehend user experience goals and translate their mockups into functional UI components. Ensure a consistent visual design across all UI elements. Participate in brainstorming sessions to generate innovative ideas for enhancing the user interface

Benefits

• Toast to your health: Fully paid health coverage for you and your family, in many locations.


• Craft your calendar: Flexible location and schedule for most roles.


• Create space for you: Distributed by design workforce, plus generous number of vacation days each year.


• Embrace parenthood: Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave, plus generous family formation benefits.


• Give back your time: 40 hours each year to use toward volunteering with organizations and causes you’re passionate about.


• Amplify your impact: Double your charitable giving — we match donations up to $1500 USD (or local currency equivalent).

Solid production experience with full-stack JavaScript, preferably TypeScript; React on the front end and Node.js on the back end. Some experience with Reactflow is a plusSuccessfully designed and launched multiple user interface components that significantly increased user commitmentYou should have experience using AI-assisted development tools. These tools can help you develop features faster, fix complex systems, and improve existing codebasesA multiplier mindset! You make the engineers around you betterProficient architecture and system-design judgment, including in large, existing codebasesA generalist streak and a user-focused mindset, with consideration for the people using your softwareA track record of leading non-trivial projects end-to-end, with real design ownership and minimal guidanceExemplary written and verbal communication, and a genuine excitement for async collaboration and knowledge-sharingExperience with the Elastic stack, observability tooling, or log/data-ingestion pipelinesGo, Kubernetes, or cloud-native application development experienceExperience building large user interfaces that manage a lot of data. This includes skills in search, filtering, and tables. You should also have experience working with streaming or real-time dataPrior open-source / working-in-the-open experience, or time on a developer-facing platform teamExperience mentoring engineers or leading a small project team