Sr. Software Engineer

O.C. Tanner is the global leader in software and services that improve workplace culture through meaningful employee experiences. Our Culture Cloud is a suite of apps designed to enhance the employee experience with strategic recognition, service awards, wellbeing, leadership, and events that help people thrive at work. Our Culture by Design approach provides expert services to organizations looking to create great workplaces.

Our global team of 1,500 people hail from 58 countries and speak 62 languages. As programmers, researchers, designers, client professionals and craftspeople we create the tech, tools and awards that connect employees to purpose at thousands of companies. Join us as we help people all over the world thrive at work.

As part of that effort, we build large-scale, international, multi-million user web and mobile applications used by companies like FedEx, Texas Roadhouse, Home Depot, and American Express. And we're doing it with technologies like React, Java, Kafka, and GraphQL. If developing web and mobile apps is your thing, we've got that.

We're actively adopting the practice of separating front-end and back-end processing across our application stack. A Front-End engineer is responsible for creating the web pages and interfaces that interact with out back-end services that span web, mobile, and voice.

Location: Salt Lake City, UT, (Hybrid)

Responsibilities

Your primary job is to build responsive web pages and help guide sustainable growth within the software engineering team. You’ll accomplish this by authoring accessible, localized, performant, secure, standards-compliant (HTML living spec, WCAG 2.1), and well-tested code in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. You’ll likely author and consume JS components from standard UI libraries, as well as support our existing products, and any other front-end related duties as assigned.

Required Attributes

• 5+ years of demonstrable experience
• A mentor, willing to offer knowledge and guidance to lift members of the team

• Advanced knowledge of web technologies including JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3, HTTP protocols, REST APIs, and Typescript
• Experience configuring ESLint, Prettier, and TypeScript for large codebases
• Strong expertise with React, including Hooks and Context API
• Solid understanding of modern React patterns and performance optimization
• Experience building testable components and maintaining high test coverage
• Experience building reusable components, hooks, and shared libraries
• Applying SOLID principles pragmatically in frontend development
• Writing clean, readable, and self-documenting code
• Familiarity with OAuth 2.0, JWT, and SSO
• Familiarity with accessibility best practices (WCAG, semantic HTML, ARIA)

Preferred Attributes

• Ability to design scalable and maintainable frontend architectures for large applications
• Experience with GraphQL APIs, Apollo Client, and Apollo Studio platform
• Expertise of React, Apollo Client, Webpack, Material UI
• Experience with Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) and Docker-based deployments
• Worked on a large-scale, international, multi-million user app

• Experience consuming events or real-time data from distributed systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, WebSockets)
• Familiarity with design tools such as Figma
• Worked with API versioning, error handling and resilience patterns
• Experienced with monitoring, logging, and error tracking tools
• Familiarity with Cloud platforms like AWS
• Worked with applications built using an asynchronous, message-driven design
• Experience designing and building backend API’s