Software Engineer III - Front-End (Hybrid in Philadelphia) - Comoto

Comoto Holdings is America’s largest and fastest-growing omnichannel platform in the powersports aftermarket-products industry; dedicated to advancing the experience of powersports enthusiasts across the globe. Comoto’s brands, RevZilla, Cycle Gear, J&P Cycles, REVER, and Common Tread,  deliver premium products, dedicated expertise, engaging media, and passionate customer support of the powersports community, through best-in-class e-commerce and retail experiences.

***This is a hybrid position that will require 2-3 days per week in the Philadelphia office***

This position is responsible for meeting the needs of our customers (internal and external) through the effective use of technology throughout the software development lifecycle. The Software Engineer III position possesses deep and broad technical skills to assist in project and program-level support of our software systems. This position architects solutions across the entire software lifecycle and follows and adapts software practices and guidelines in the development and support of sustainable software systems.

Our Software Engineer III - Front-End Will:

• Be a front-end focused full-stack developer

• Love working with HTML/CSS/JS, find delight in modular design and code reusability

• Be delivery & performance focused over pixel & code perfection

• Own web performance and system uptimes

• Provide technical support and mentoring to development team members

• Be an active participant in strategic planning discussions with technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Take many abstract ideas and codify to a viable solution that meets business needs.

• Have the ability to take high-level system initiatives and break them down into workable user stories for the team to work on.

• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle in support of team objectives.

• Support and develop software engineers by providing advice, coaching, and educational opportunities.

• Engage with stakeholders to understand needs, priorities, and to capture requirements for operational needs.

• Maintain a working knowledge of emerging technologies as well as new developments in older technologies

Our Next Software Engineer III - Front-End Has:

• Exemplary talents in front-end technologies including HTML/CSS/JS

• Design system, or large-scale frontend architecture experience or exposure

• 5+ years of experience in Ruby or Elixir

• E-commerce/retail domain knowledge

• Comfort with relational database systems, ideally Postgres

• Belief in continuous delivery principles and strive to keep our product shippable at all times

• The ability to mentor and guide junior engineers, providing them support to start and complete their tasks

• Experience regularly writing clean code and helping guide other team members to do the same 

• The ability to recognize code smells and refactor mercilessly when you see them

• An understanding of the architecture of systems that span multiple business domains and drive the design of the context you work in to improve that ecosystem

• Up-to-date understanding of emerging trends maintained by attending meet-ups, reading books, following open source projects, etc. 

• Understanding of Agile principles and will participate actively in important rituals such as grooming and planning sessions as well as being comfortable estimating and willing to call out blockers early

• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and/or Google Cloud Platform (this is a nice to have and not a requirement of the role).

***This is a hybrid position that will require 2-3 days per week in the Philadelphia office***

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.