Senior Front End Engineer

Because you belong at Twilio.

The Who, What, Why and Where

Twilio is seeking a Senior Front End Engineer with a focus on front-end web application development to join the Technology Platform’s user experience team. Our organization provides all Twilio engineers with compelling, continuously improving, cloud-scale development platforms–freeing other Twilio engineers to focus solely on their products and their customers. If you have a passion for user interfaces, love shipping useful tools, and take pride in the details of your work, you are probably a great fit for our team.

Who?

Twilio is looking for an exceptional individual who lives the Twilio Magic and has a demonstrated track record in delivering web applications.  They also have:

• 5+ years experience building and delivering single-page web applications with modern front-end frameworks such as React (preferred), Vue, or Angular.
• Experience building reusable, and extendable components using Javascript/Typescript, HTML and CSS, and familiarity working with design systems.
• Experience developing and consuming REST APIs
• Experience measuring and optimizing the performance of web applications
• Production experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.  

What?

As a Senior Front End Engineer on the Platform Experience Team, you will live the Twilio Magic values:

• WRITE IT DOWN: Document best practices, test cases, architectural plans, and reference material for peers and users. 
• DRAW THE OWL: Identify solutions to engineering and user experience problems that might not have been solved before. Know when a problem has already been solved better by someone else and how to leverage that.
• BE AN OWNER: Operate the software you build. Stand behind the quality of your work. Fix it when it breaks. 
• BE BOLD: Use the DevOps principles of automation, continuous delivery, and fast reaction to feedback to deliver value quickly 
• WEAR THE CUSTOMER’S SHOES: Understand our customers’ use cases by directly supporting them and engaging with them
• EMPOWER OTHERS: Build tools and processes that enable other Twilio developers to deliver software faster, with more confidence
• BE INCLUSIVE: Collaborate with designers, product managers, engineers, and customers to make products the best they can be.

Why?

The Twilio Technology Platform organization empowers every Twilio developer to be their best at Twilio. The Platform Experience team owns the user interface to Technology Platform's products, providing Twilions with stable and consistent interfaces to configure, deliver and operate their software as safely and efficiently as possible.

Twilio is a company that is empowering the world’s developers with modern communication in order to build better applications. Twilio is truly unique; we are a company committed to your growth, your learning, your development, and your entire employee experience. We only win when our employees succeed and we're dedicated to helping you develop your strengths. We have a cultural foundation built on diversity, inclusion, and innovation and we want you and your ideas to thrive at Twilio.

Where?

This position will be located in our new beautiful and well-designed office at Veerenni 38 in Tallinn. You will enjoy our office perks: catered meals, snacks, game room, ergonomic desks, massages, Wednesday dinners, bi-weekly All Hands and more. What you will also get to experience is a company that believes in small teams for maximum impact; seeks well-rounded talent to ensure a full perspective on our customers’ experience,  understands that this is a marathon, not a sprint; that continuously and purposefully builds an inclusive culture where everyone is able to do and be the best version of themselves.

About us:

Millions of developers around the world have used Twilio to unlock the magic of communications to improve any human experience. Twilio has democratized communications channels like voice, text, chat, video and email by virtualizing the world’s communications infrastructure through APIs that are simple enough for any developer to use, yet robust enough to power the world’s most demanding applications. By making communications a part of every software developer’s toolkit, Twilio is enabling innovators across every industry — from emerging leaders to the world’s largest organizations — to reinvent how companies engage with their customers.