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Senior Front End Engineer

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GIPHY

The Company:

Founded in 2013, GIPHY Inc. is the first and largest GIF search engine where thousands of artists, brands, and pop culture moments make today’s expression, entertainment, and info a little more moving. GIPHY allows users to not only search for their favorite GIFs but post, embed, share, create their own, and more.

GIPHY is integrated into thousands of platforms, including iMessage, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Tinder, Slack and WhatsApp. We serve more than 10 billion pieces of content (GIFs, Stickers, etc.) per day, to a daily user reach of 700+ million.   

We’re a creative and passionate group of GIF-obsessed individuals continuing to build out what we believe is the future of communication. We have big goals and are looking for talented people to join us.

The Opportunity:

How do you build and support an ad business for a new type of ad media - GIFS! - from the ground up? How do you create tooling for campaign managers and sales teams to quickly schedule and traffic campaigns, with feedback so they know when something has gone wrong? How do you create user flows that improve Ad Ops efficiency but also allow for the delivery of the newest class of ad products? 

We are looking for an outstanding engineer to help us answer questions like these, with a passion for solving search and advertising challenges at scale.  You will join our Ad Products team to help us make our new code base even bigger and better.

What You’ll Do:

  • Own and maintain the front end of our campaign management tools
  • Collaborate with front end developers across the company to ensure good front end engineering practices, design patterns, and standards
  • Create high-level architectural specifications and ensure both feasibility and functionality for our ad tools
  • Lead implementations for tooling and frameworks that result in high performance, quality, and automation for our ad tools
  • Build systems and write code hands-on
  • Own large and small projects related to our ad tools end-to-end

Who You Are:

  • 3+ years of experience developing and architecting web apps, with a heavy usage of modern JavaScript frameworks/languages and a solid understanding of reactive state
  • Experience with React/Redux
  • Team player
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • A collaborative spirit
  • Able to work in a fast-paced environment
  • Able to prioritize amongst competing demands
  • Experience with other parts of our stack (python/django in particular) is a bonus
  • Experience with Git, Agile; experience with CI/CD techniques and deployment strategies is strongly desired
  • Industry experience with web applications and microservice architectures
  • Ability to find the right solution to the problem at the right time
  • Exposure to ad tech is a plus

This is a full time salaried position, including stock options, fully covered health insurance, 4% 401K match, 4 month maternity leave (additional 2 months of transition), 1 month paternity leave (additional 2 months of transition), free lunch every day, free gym membership and lots of other fun perks.

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