Senior Frontend Engineer (React)

Job Description

Who We Are

Cobalt was founded on the belief that pentesting can be better. Our pentests start in as little as 24 hours and integrate with modern development cycles thanks to the powerful combination of a SaaS platform coupled with an exclusive community of testers known as the Cobalt Core. Accepting just 5% of applicants, the Core boasts over 400 closely vetted and highly skilled testers who jointly conduct thousands of tests each year.

Our award-winning, fully remote team is committed to helping agile businesses remediate risk quickly and innovate securely. Today, over 1,000 customers use Cobalt to run pentests on demand via Pentest as a Service, AKA PtaaS, a space which Cobalt pioneered (you could even say we wrote the book on it) and continues to lead.

Description

What’s next? Cobalt's Employee Experience team is growing to solidify our status as a world-class security platform. As a Senior Frontend Engineer on this team, you’ll leverage your expertise to design and build tools used by Cobalt employees to facilitate pentest staffing or pentester payments to establish Cobalt as part of the larger, connected SDLC and security tooling ecosystem. You’ll work collaboratively with product managers and designers to drive the implementation and release of major features, and be a champion of best practices for writing well-tested, well-organized code.

What You'll Do

• Play a key role in the design and full cycle of agile development and continuous delivery of new features.
• Actively collaborate with engineers from other teams to define the future frontend architecture, helping us to scale and improve our business operational efficiency.
• Coach frontend engineers in our team, and support the development of engineers in other teams.
• Contribute to our knowledge-sharing culture in the company and support the Cobalt brand in local communities.
• Partner with product, customer success, and pentest architect teams to gather requirements, brainstorm solutions and deliver creative solutions that meet needs concerning usability, performance, aesthetics, reliability, and realistic implementation schedules.
• Plan and lead testing for complex projects.

You Identify As

• A Self-Starter. As a senior member of the team, you’ll feel at home as a hands-on, self-directed contributor who drives initiatives within the team and cross-team, for the product and for other engineers.
• A Team-Player. You collaborate with other engineers and the Product team (PMs, Product Designers) daily to deliver high quality features on-time and identify ways to continuously improve how you and your team work.
• A Technical-Interface. Not only internally, but with customers and other stakeholders, you’ll help others understand technical complexities and opportunities in terms they’ll understand.

You Have

• 5+ years of professional experience with frontend technologies (e.g. React/Redux, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Hooks, OOP, Formik, React testing lib, Cypress, RESTful APIs, automation testing, continuous deployment, build tools, bundlers, frontend modularization, distributed architecture, Docker, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Typescript, responsive design etc.)
• Experience and a passion for mentoring and coaching teammates
• A proactive attitude & willingness to participate in team discussions
• Experience working with RESTful APIs
• Experience with automation testing and continuous deployment processes
• A solid understanding of build tools and bundlers, such as webpack
• Good written and verbal communication in English
• A high comfort level within a remote-first, globally distributed company

Bonus If You Have

• Experience with frontend modularization (Micro frontends) and distributed architecture
• Docker, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Typescript
• Experience in the cybersecurity industry / knowledge of best practices

Diversity at Cobalt

With over 45 nationalities already at Cobalt (and counting) we respect and celebrate diversity! We’re proudly committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of your gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability, or place of origin. We support each other and are grateful for each Cobalter's contribution to our mission — let's make security dance!

Please apply even if you don't think you meet all of the criteria above but are still interested in the job. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone excited to join the team.

Why You Should Join Us

• Grow in a passionate, rapidly expanding industry operating at the forefront of the Pentesting industry
• Work directly with experienced senior leaders with ongoing mentorship opportunities
• Earn competitive compensation and an attractive equity plan
• Save for the future with a 401(k) program (US) or pension (EU)
• Benefit from medical, dental, vision and life insurance (US) or statutory healthcare (EU)
• Leverage stipends for:
  • Wellness
  • Work-from-home equipment & wifi
  • Learning & development
• Treat yourself to paid remote lunches
• Make the most of our flexible, generous paid time off, and 16-weeks of paid parental leave
• Work remotely from anywhere in the US, the UK, or Germany
• Explore the world with our travel bonus payouts at your 2, 3, and 5 year anniversary