Front-End Software Engineer II | Madison, WI or San Francisco, CA - Military veterans preferred

2025-05-09
Zendesk
Other

/yr

  employee   contract


San Francisco
California
94105
United States


Location: Remote, California, United States of America | Remote, Wisconsin, United States of America

Requisition ID: R31259

Position_Type: Full time | Full time

Job Description

Software Engineer II - Front-End

Location: San Francisco, CA - Hybrid | Full-Time

Location: Madison, WI - Hybrid | Full-Time

What you will do:

The Zendesk Online Business team is looking for a Software Engineer with working knowledge of frontend languages like JavaScript and TypeScript and past experience with developing with frontend libraries like React.js to join them on their journey to make the Zendesk purchasing experience, one of the business' most crucial and fundamental aspects, more consistent and intuitive. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Collaborating with product managers and engineers to ensure requirements are understood and executed upon.

  • Follow Zendesk standards when designing, building and deploying solutions

  • Champion best practices, high quality code, and proper test coverage. We ship code frequently and fast, but stability and reliability must never be compromised.

  • Actively participate in code reviews and design discussions

  • Partner across all areas of the SDLC, including requirements gathering, and building services and solutions.

  • Active engagement and participation in your team’s Scrum Process

What you bring to the role:

  • 2-4 years of relevant industry experience with frontend software development

  • Expertise in technical areas including but not limited to Session Management, Object relational mapping, Caching, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, CSS-in-JS, JSON, and REST APIs

  • Experience developing complex single page apps with React or similar JavaScript MVC/MVP framework

  • A team-first collaborative attitude that thrives in a fast-moving agile development environment

  • Be willing to learn new domains and technologies

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Bonus Skills:

  • Experience using Datadog or other log aggregation tools

  • Experience with an object oriented language like Ruby or Java

  • Experience with databases like MySQL

  • Experience with AWS stack (ie. Aurora RDS)

  • Expertise with instrumentation frameworks like Segment or Pendo

  • Experience with CI/CD and delivery systems (Github Actions, Travis, Jenkins)

  • Experience with JavaScript build infrastructure/tooling (Webpack, Node.js)

  • Experience working in an Agile Scrum Team

The US annualized base salary range for this position is $110,000.00-$166,000.00. This position may also be eligible for bonus, benefits, or related incentives. While this range reflects the minimum and maximum value for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations, the offer for the successful candidate for this position will be based on job related capabilities, applicable experience, and other factors such as work location. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only (or OTE for commissions based roles), and do not include bonus, benefits, or related incentives.

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Zendesk

Zendesk is on a mission to simplify the complexity of business and make it easy for companies and customers to create connections.

Our customer experience software unlocks the power of billions of interactions, enabling businesses to build rich, meaningful relationships with their customers.

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With our hybrid approach, you’ll experience flexibility and connection, collaboration, and learning with your team.

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