As the Staff Software Engineer, you will...- Work in a highly collaborative environment with front and back-end engineers, product managers, product owners, and product designers.
- Mentor other frontend engineers on the team.
- Collaborate with your team members to review their work and have your work reviewed in turn.
- Design and develop unit and system tests that give the team confidence to deploy to production multiple times per day.
- Produce comprehensive software documentation for public and internal use.
- Participate in the entire software development lifecycle, including planning, development, automated test construction, deployment, and operations.
- Work in a team environment where your team owns and operates the services you build.
- Carry cross-team initiatives from end to end: code reviews, design reviews, operational robustness, security hygiene, etc.
You'll enjoy this role if you...- Use sound rationale for problem identification and decision making, and can transfer that knowledge to other engineers on the team.
- Want to work in a collaborative and supportive manner with not only your team but internal stakeholders as well.
- Are passionate about creating and maintaining high quality software that provides direct value to customers.
- Strive to consistently achieve excellence, not only for yourself, but for your teammates.
- Enjoy refactoring code as you strive for continuous improvement.
- Have a passion for User Experience.
What you'll need to be successful...- 8+ years of front-end software development experience.
- Have 8+ years of experience and demonstrable knowledge of front-end development (CSS/SASS, JavaScript and HTML)
- Have experience and demonstrable knowledge of front end authentication and authorization flows
- Are proficient with React or similar front-end framework and Typescript
- Are able to produce UI elements that are WCAG compliant
- Familiarity with Redux or other state management tools
- Experience with tailwind or a similar CSS library
- A proactive interest in emerging AI technologies and a track record of applying AI to solve complex front-end challenges or optimize performance
- Experience with Git and NPM
- Experience writing unit tests with Jest or equivalent
- Experience writing e2e tests with Playwright or equivalent
- Experience working in Agile and continuous delivery environments
- Familiarity with modern CI/CD tooling
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Extra credit if you have...- Experience with Drupal
- Familiarity working with design systems
We are an organization that embraces innovation and the potential of AI to enhance our processes and improve our work. We are always looking for individuals who are open to learning new technologies and collaborating with AI tools to achieve our goals.
Acquia is proud to provide best-in-class benefits to help our employees and their families maintain a healthy body and mind. Core Benefits include: competitive healthcare coverage, wellness programs, take it when you need it time off, parental leave, recognition programs, and much more!
We are seeking an AI-Native candidate who treats AI not as an external tool, but as a fundamental extension of their cognitive workflow. The ideal candidate possesses an orchestration mindset-the ability to skillfully prompt, manage, and direct AI to navigate complexity-and maintains a high degree of AI fluency.
You should be characterized by radical adaptability and a "builder" mentality, showing a restless drive to transform traditional work processes into agentic workflows. Beyond technical proficiency, we value intellectual humility: the willingness to constantly unlearn old methods in favor of more efficient, AI-augmented processes. You don't just use AI to do your job; you use it to redefine what your job can achieve.
