Staff Frontend Engineer

About Appsmith

Appsmith is an open-source, low-code platform that helps developers build applications quickly, usually within hours, and ten times faster. In the future we’re building, custom software developed for internal users that will look and work no differently than the best out-of-the-box products.

Since its inception only two years ago, Appsmith has gained significant traction, with over 10 million downloads, over 30,000 stars on GitHub, and adoption by 10,000+ organizations across 150 countries. We’ve also raised over $50 million. If you haven’t already, sign up for a free Appsmith account at https://app.appsmith.com/ and experiment today.

Role Overview

The Query & JS team is at the forefront of our mission to enable easy and effective app building. Users should be able to bring data from anywhere and achieve complexities of any scale with a simple, intuitive experience. This team is pivotal in creating an experience that inspires users to easily create rich and complex applications.

• In the Query & JS team we’re a team of 4 engineers, a product manager, and a designer working closely with one another is our default mode of operation.
• We’re fully remote and asynchronous so you can work from anywhere and anytime. Because of that, we highly value those candidates who are good at expressing themselves in writing.
• We foster a culture of continuous learning, feedback, and open dialogue, welcoming adaptable people with strong opinions.
• All our work is open source because building in public allows for lightning-fast feedback, increased public accountability, and greater trust from our users.
• We practice continuous integration, pushing code to production every day, using techniques like feature toggles to manage delivery
• We strongly believe in reading the health of the team’s operations from an evolving set of engineering metrics

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Alignment & Vision:
• Project Planning & Delivery:
• Mentorship & Team Support:
• Culture of Openness & Continuous Improvement:

Qualifications

• Demonstrable and deep experience in architecting and developing complex web applications and outstanding debugging skills. While specializing in front-end technologies, you should also be conversant with various technologies across the stack. Engineers typically gather this breadth and depth of experience over a period of 8+ years.
• Proficiency in Programming Languages: Expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript and a strong understanding of frameworks like React.
• Front-End Development: Deep knowledge of modern front-end technologies, including HTML, CSS, React, and redux(with redux-sagas preferably). Strong in debugging and handling complex logic.
• Testing and Debugging: Strong skills in writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests using frameworks like Jest, Cypress, etc.
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools.

Interview Process

As a small team, it’s imperative that we get to know each other before taking the leap. We want to ensure you succeed in your role within our team. Each conversation (video conference) with us will last about 45 minutes. Typically, the whole process takes between 5 and 10 business days, depending on your and our schedules.

Interview with the Hiring Manager: We want to understand what you’re looking for in a career and tell you about the opportunities that Appsmith offers. We’ll talk about your aspirations and your prior relevant work experience. Prepare by researching Appsmith, focusing on our product. Hint: check out our GitHub repo for insights and familiarize yourself with it.

Prepare by researching Appsmith, focusing on our product and UI editor. Hint: we really appreciate people who have a critical viewpoint on our product. Our motivation internally is to be able to empathize well with our users.

Problem Solving: A technical assessment will gauge your proficiency with the tools and languages we use and some common algorithms. You’ll share some stories of your technical experiences with the interviewer and work together to solve some typical engineering problems. Share your stories about technical achievements, and remember to focus on what you personally achieved. Sharing the credit is great, but this is your chance to show off your skills and experience.

System Design: The system design assessment will focus on your experience in software architecture and balancing scalability with versatility and speed of delivery. We’ll ask about some of your previous system design experience, and our interviewer will collaborate on a system design problem. Keep in mind that we value candidates who ask insightful questions about our processes.

Team Round: This round, led by a designer, and/or a product manager, will focus on collaboration and communication. Expect questions about how you worked with a team to solve a challenging problem through teamwork and communication.

Culture Fit: In this round, you’ll meet with one of Appsmith's executive co-founders. We take our culture seriously, and our senior leaders participate because they want to ensure the best fit for us and you. It's a chance to understand Appsmith's broader vision and get to chat with our founders about our culture, our mission, and our strategy.

Why Join Appsmith?

• Mission: Be part of a mission-driven company that solves problems that you can relate to. We are on a mission to help developers quickly build & deploy high-quality internal apps.
• Team: We believe in hiring experts for every domain to create a culture of collaboration, innovation, creativity & diversity. Be part of a time that inspires you every day.
• Impact: Play a key role in shaping the future of our platform and delivering features that directly impact our customers' success.
• Flexibility: We believe in unlocking productivity by giving individuals freedom. Work remotely from the USA with flexible hours to suit your work style.

If you are passionate about building powerful, user-friendly tools for developers and are an expert in your domain, we would love to hear from you.

Benefits

• Productivity: Work from anywhere with a budget to set up your home office.
• Flexibility: Work how you are most productive with flexible holiday schedules & work timings.
• Growth: Keep growing with a budget for books, courses & conferences.