Staff Software Engineer, Frontend — Otter.ai

The Opportunity

We're seeking a talented Staff Engineer to join our Frontend Team.  In this role, the person will shape and drive feature development while collaborating with key stakeholders across our organization. We're looking for someone who can provide technical leadership on enhancing performance, infrastructure, and overall user experience. If you're an innovative thinker who loves bringing ideas to life, this role is for you.

Your Impact

• Lead in the development of our web app where you will be responsible for designing and shaping our current web application to be a more responsive, mobile-first single-page app
• Write clean, maintainable, and reusable code that adheres to code standards
• Discover and fix bugs
• Test and evaluate the app for security and performance pitfalls
• Validate /test for cross-browser/platform/device compatibility
• Research solutions
• Participate in code standards and lead code reviews

We're looking for someone who

• 8+ years of experience developing and architecting single-page web apps using a JavaScript framework
• Exceptional capability building websites that adhere to mobile-first functionality
• Expert level proficiency in writing clean, reusable, optimized HTML/CSS, Typescript and JavaScript
• Good familiarity with HTTP protocol
• Deep experience writing unit, integration, and UI tests and a strong ability to debug code that is reusable, testable and efficient.
• Proven track record staying on top of the latest development tools and platforms
• Experience with WebSockets is a plus
• Familiar with Linux. Experience with AWS environment is preferred
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, Masters degree is a plus

About Otter.ai 

We are in the business of shaping the future of work. Our mission is to make conversations more valuable.

With over 1B meetings transcribed, Otter.ai is the world’s leading tool for meeting transcription, summarization, and collaboration. Using artificial intelligence, Otter generates real-time automated meeting notes, summaries, and other insights from in-person and virtual meetings - turning meetings into accessible, collaborative, and actionable data that can be shared across teams and organizations. The company is backed by early investors in Google, DeepMind, Zoom, and Tesla.

Otter.ai is an equal opportunity employer. We proudly celebrate diversity and are dedicated to inclusivity.

*Otter.ai does not accept unsolicited resumes from 3rd party recruitment agencies without a written agreement in place for permanent placements. Any resume or other candidate information submitted outside of established candidate submission guidelines (including through our website or via email to any Otter.ai employee) and without a written agreement otherwise will be deemed to be our sole property, and no fee will be paid should we hire the candidate.

Salary range

Salary Range: $210,000 to $250,000 USD per year.

This salary range represents the low and high end of the estimated salary range for this position. The actual base salary offered for the role is dependent on several factors. Our base salary is just one component of a comprehensive total rewards package.