Senior Software Engineer
Are you a software developer who loves building beautiful user interfaces? Would making an impact on the digital experiences of millions of users excite you? Join our Cloud Experience Engineering Team Our Cloud Experience Engineering team is a group of dedicated professionals shaping Akamai's aspirations to create an industry-leading user experience. We take ownership for the design and development for core interfaces, applications and services. We create an experience that allows customers and internal stakeholders to build software using the best of internal and third-party technologies. Partner with the best As a Front-End Senior Software Engineer, you will thrive on delivering outstanding quality and functionality to our customers. You will conceptualize, build and maintain user interfaces and shared web components across all of Akamai. You will work in a collaborative capacity to translate visual design specifications and requirements into a fully functional UI for our web applications. As a Front-End Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for: Building powerful, yet easy-to-use next generation web applications to achieve consistent user experience across our multiple applications Contributing to a library of common components and development tooling Utilizing pixel-perfect layout skills and hand coding of both simple and complex cross-browser and cross-platform solutions Contributing to all aspects of the project lifecycle: define, design, develop, and test Do what you love To be successful in this role you will: Have 5 years of experience and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field Demonstrate familiarity with professional HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Show experience with React, Angular, or a leading JavaScript framework Possess a clear understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Source Code Management Systems (we use git) Be familiar with software testing concepts including unit, functional, regression continuous integration, and performance testing About us At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day. Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone. Our focus is simple: Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance. Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data. Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch. AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform. At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works. Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits. FlexBase adapts to your job's needs Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work. We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like!
Compensation
Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from 102,500 - 184,500 CAD/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, RRSP, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply. Apply To This Job