Front-End Software Engineer

Senior Front End Engineer – Portland, OR

Marketo provides the leading engagement marketing software and solutions designed to help marketers develop long-term relationships with their customers – from acquisition to advocacy. Marketo is built for marketers, by marketers and is setting the innovation agenda for marketing technology.

The Opportunity

As the Front End Engineer you will contribute to the development of the company’s flagship Lead Management suite and related applications. You’re seasoned enough to take ownership of the front-end and have skill and acumen with optimizing the consumption of backend data services.

Responsibilities:
Build cutting-edge, state-of-art Marketo applications collaborating with the User Experience (UX) team. Write code that is optimal, documented, clean, tested and gives performance and scalability priority

Ensure HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across applications

Consume backend data services and contribute to enhancing existing data service APIs

Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related discipline or equivalent experience

2+ years of experience designing and developing large scale Web applications with high availability and reliability, ideally in a SaaS environment. 4+ years total experience

Expert JavaScript and HTML/CSS coding skills

Strong knowledge of the DOM, CSS3, JavaScript and HTML5, keen on cross browser & mobile support

Extensive experience with one or more JavaScript UI toolkits, such as AngularJS, JQueryUI, ExtJS, EmberJS, ReactJS, BackboneJS

Experience in client side scripting ensuring web security (XSRF, cross-site scripting), JSON, and object serialization

Experience with Agile (preferably Scrum) & Test-driven development

Good verbal and written communication skills

Strong ability to troubleshoot software problems

Experience with a version control system (Git preferred, SVN, Perforce, or CVS experience acceptable)

Pluses:
Websocket/Socket.io experience

Experience with functional programming paradigms, immutable data structures

Mobile Development and Responsive Layout experience

Experience with common JavaScript build/test tools like Gulp, Grunt, Mocha, Browserify, NPM

PHP knowledge and experience with PHP MVC frameworks (Symfony, Kohana, CodeIgniter, Zend, etc.)

CSS framework (Saas, Less) and UX minded

NoSQL datastores like MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase

Experience with common open-source application/web servers like Tomcat, NodeJS, Nginx, Apache

Experience with DevOps deployment tools: Vagrant, Puppet, Docker

About Marketo

Marketo provides the leading engagement marketing software and solutions designed to help marketers develop long-term relationships with their customers – from acquisition to advocacy. Marketo is built for marketers, by marketers and is setting the innovation agenda for marketing technology. Marketo puts Marketing First. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, with offices around the world, Marketo serves as a strategic partner to large enterprise and fast-growing small companies across a wide variety of industries. To learn more about Marketo’s Engagement Marketing Platform, LaunchPoint® partner ecosystem, and the vast community that is the Marketo Marketing Nation®, visit www.marketo.com.

Marketo is an equal opportunity employer.