Senior Software Engineer, Frontend Platform

Your Impact on Our Mission

Zocdoc is rapidly growing, and our Frontend Platform team is crucial to scaling our engineering capabilities. As a Senior Frontend Platform Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in building the foundational tools, frameworks, and infrastructure that empower our engineering teams to deliver exceptional user experiences at scale. You'll help shape the architecture of our frontend systems, drive best practices for performance and maintainability, and enable faster development cycles through platform innovation.

By collaborating with cross-functional teams, you'll ensure our platform remains robust, flexible, and easy to use, empowering developers to focus on creating impactful features that serve our users. Your contributions will directly enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the entire organization, ultimately helping Zocdoc connect patients and providers more seamlessly. We're looking for someone who can advocate for frontend best practices and work collaboratively to implement a culture of excellence.

You'll enjoy this role if you are…

• Passionate about improving frontend developer productivity and experience across the organization, and creating shared standards around code quality.
• Focused on topics like CICD, build processes, state management (e.g., Redux), managing dependencies, and versioning of technologies like React/JS.
• Experienced in negotiating tradeoffs and gaining buy-in/feedback on internal services with product engineers and other stakeholders.
• Familiar with platform engineering work and its place within organizations.
• A strong communicator with the ability to negotiate tradeoffs and secure buy-in from Product Managers and other engineers on timelines or resource allocation.
• Passionate about code quality and best practices as a non-Platform Engineer, and eager to foster this within the team.

Your day to day is…

• Taking full ownership of architecting and building core frontend platform components and libraries to support cross-team initiatives.
• Working to get time to deploy down, cleaning up testing suites, and managing dependencies.
• Standardizing frontend coding practices, ensuring consistent versions of React/JS/Typescript across the organization.
• Creating feedback loops with developers, including reviewing their code and identifying opportunities for new platform services.
• Authentically mentoring and coaching engineers on best practices, code reviews, and technical decisions to elevate the entire team's performance.
• Building and fostering strong relationships with cross-functional stakeholders to align on technical direction and deliverables.

You'll be successful in this role if you have…

• A background with a passion or focus on improving Frontend Developer Productivity/Experience across the entire organization and creating shared standards around code quality.
• Meaningful experience in building and scaling modern frontend platforms, preferably using React, Redux, and Typescript.
• Strong technical skills and experience with CICD or build processes, Redux or state management, managing dependencies, managing versions of React/JS, and Webpack or similar technologies.
• Proven experience negotiating tradeoffs with product engineers or getting buy-in/feedback on internal services.
• A fundamental understanding of software development principles, including CI/CD (TeamCity experience a plus), testing strategies (Jest), and version control (Monorepo or Gitlab experience a plus).
• Experience or passion for code reviews, architectural reviews, and establishing best practices.
• SOLID communication skills and expressed willingness to have other engineers as primary stakeholders.

Benefits:

• Flexible, hybrid work environment
• Unlimited PTO
• 100% paid employee health benefit options
• Employer funded 401(k) match
• Corporate wellness programs with Headspace and Peloton
• Sabbatical leave (for employees with 5+ years of service)
• Competitive parental leave
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Great Place to Work Certified
• Catered lunch everyday along with snacks
• Commuter Benefits
• Convenient Soho location