Staff Frontend Engineer

Aerospike is the real-time database for mission-critical use cases and workloads, including machine learning, generative, and agentic AI. Aerospike powers millions of transactions per second with millisecond latency, at a fraction of the total cost of ownership compared to other databases.

Global leaders, including Adobe, Airtel, Barclays, Criteo, DBS Bank, Experian, Grab, HDFC Bank, PayPal, Sony Interactive Entertainment, The Trade Desk, and Wayfair, rely on Aerospike for customer 360, fraud detection, real-time bidding, profile stores, recommendation engines, and other use cases.

At Aerospike, we dream big and deliver even bigger. Our mission is to unleash the power of the world’s real-time data with a database built for infinite scale, speed, and sustainability.

If you're ready to shape the future of data, join us.

Staff Frontend Engineer

About Aerospike

At Aerospike, we dream big. Our focus is helping companies tackle seemingly insurmountable problems and doing what’s never been done before. That is why we developed the world's leading real-time data platform that powers mission-critical applications at the world's most innovative, category-disrupting companies. Aerospike companies have deployed extreme-scale real-time applications to fight fraud, dramatically increase shopping cart size, enable global digital payments, and deliver hyper-personalized user experiences to tens of millions of customers.

Customers like Airtel, Experian, Nielsen, PayPal, Snap, Verizon Media, and Wayfair rely on Aerospike as the data foundation for the future to help them act in the microsecond moments that matter. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Aerospike has a global presence with offices in London, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv.

As a Staff Frontend Engineer at the Aerospike Cloud team, your role is pivotal in developing the Aerospike Cloud Platform - the company's Multi-Cloud, Multi-Tenant Aerospike Platform. Your contributions will directly impact our ability to deliver innovative solutions to our global customer base.

Responsibilities

• Communicate regularly with stakeholders, project managers, quality assurance teams, and other developers regarding progress on a long-term technology roadmap

• Convert business requirements into actionable engineering plans and work items

• Produce quality code, raising the bar for team performance and speed

• Write code and tests, build prototypes, resolve issues, and profile and analyze bottlenecks

• Optimize front-end services for performance, reliability, security and scalability

• Integrate front-end service deliverables from other engineering teams into a single user-experience

• Provide technical leadership and direction to other front-end developers

• Partner with back-end developers to develop services and APIs

• Develop automated unit and integration tests to ensure business needs are met

• Participate in an on-call rotation to quickly resolve technical issues impacting customers

• Develop product analytics designed to understand the user experience

• Mentor and develop front-end engineering talent

Required skills and qualifications

• Proficient knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, CSS

• Deep understanding of modern web practices and the associated technologies (JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Angular, etc.)

• Experience with at least one of the major public cloud providers: AWS, Google, Azure

• Experience with API development frameworks (Swagger or other frameworks)

• Technical knowledge and understanding of techniques and standards for authentication, authorization, and encryption

• Experience converting UI mockups to usable web pages

• 5-10 years of experience developing web applications

• Experience shipping UI software in production environments

• Experience leading development for a UI team

• Experience with modern observability platforms (Datadog or similar)

Preferred skills and qualifications

• Experience with developing, deploying, and maintaining distributed services with containers (Docker) & orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS, GKE)

• Experience with Git and CI/CD pipeline engines (GithubActions, Jenkins, TravisCI, etc.)

• Familiarity with one or more common backend languages (Go, Python, Java)

• Experience with NoSQL database development

Aerospike is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing an environment free from discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.

Join us at Aerospike and be part of a dynamic team that is shaping the future of data management. Salary Range for California Based Applicants: [$170,000 - $215,000] (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law)