Senior Node.js Engineer

The world’s number 1 highest-traffic job website, Indeed.com has 250 million unique monthly visitors and 9.8 jobs posted every second. A giant on a mission to help people find jobs, Indeed works with product teams in Austin, Tokyo, Seattle, San Francisco, Singapore, and Hyderabad.

Ready to help Indeed improve people’s lives, one job at a time?

The Dev Experience Team has an immediate need for a contractor JavaScript Ecosystem Engineer.  The JavaScript Ecosystem team owns, in partnership with key stakeholders the build systems, standard practices and key libraries for Node.js, Javascript, and Typescript for all of Indeed.  The work this team does impacts teams across Indeed.  We’re looking for someone who can grow into the subject matter expert for frontend build and contribute to a cross-functional team that supports this key ecosystem.

For this front end position, it is required to provide support of the existing frontend build infrastructure.  In addition to that, a high level of expertise will be required to implement the analysis and changes required to make these improvements on the front end building system.

Specifically, improvements that we are currently considering include:

• adding instrumentation
• adding health metrics such as library and deployable “freshness”
• owning and maintaining key libraries for this ecosystem
• moving from npm to yarn (could be 15%-50% faster)
• utilizing geo-distributed artifact caching
• using esbuild as our compiler
• simplifying default lint rules
• upgrading and improving jest
• investigating faster module bundlers (metro, snowpack)
• implementing better default caching for local builds
• distributing global npm binaries in nexus
• supporting major clients in making upgrades, implementing best practices
• improving default gradle tasks to improve npm ci behaviors (–prefer-offline, –no-audit)

Our upcoming major initiatives that have lots of opportunity for cross-team impact include:

• Webpack 5 support
• Adopting Node 14 LTS as a baseline, and setting up upgrade paths for Node 16 LTS
• Automating the deployment of new upgrades for all supported languages to end users automatically

Requirements

• Experience with npm, Bash
• Node.js DevOps Engineering
• Willingness to provide support.

Preferred:

• Automation via python, bash.
• Experience and to provide support to end users (mostly devs).

We offer

• Interesting and challenging tasks
• Flexible work schedule
• Zero bureaucracy
• Friendly and a very skilled team with great corporate culture and mentorship (visit us and see it yourself)
• US democratic management style
• Opportunities for self-realization, professional and career growth
• Cool events and team activities
• Professional workshops and training, a great engineering culture

About the project

Since 2004, Indeed has given job seekers free access to millions of jobs from thousands of company websites and job boards. As the leading pay-for-performance recruitment advertising network, Indeed drives millions of targeted applicants to jobs in every field and is the most cost-effective source of candidates for thousands of companies.