Senior Software Engineer

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter.

• 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.
• 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.

• 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 plus.
• A track record of leading non-trivial projects end-to-end, with real design ownership and minimal guidance.
• Proficient architecture and system-design judgment, including in large, existing codebases.
• Successfully designed and launched multiple user interface components that significantly increased user commitment.
• You should have experience using AI-assisted development tools. These tools can help you develop features faster, fix complex systems, and improve existing codebases.
• Exemplary written and verbal communication, and a genuine excitement for async collaboration and knowledge-sharing.
• A multiplier mindset! You make the engineers around you better.
• A generalist streak and a user-focused mindset, with consideration for the people using your software.
• Experience with the Elastic stack, observability tooling, or log/data-ingestion pipelines (bonus).
• Go, Kubernetes, or cloud-native application development experience (bonus).
• Experience 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 data (bonus).
• Prior open-source / working-in-the-open experience, or time on a developer-facing platform team (bonus).
• Experience mentoring engineers or leading a small project team (bonus).

• Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.
• The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below. In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below.
• These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.
• An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.
• In addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program.
• Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.