Small, autonomous teams. Decentralized decision-making. Scala. NoSQL. Team ownership of end-to-end quality. Support for open source technologies. A friction-free production environment. Distributed systems. Continuous delivery. Simplicity. Automation. These are some of the key ingredients of Gilt's robust technology culture. If this all sounds good to you, then keep reading!
The Opportunity
As a Gilt Senior Front-End Architect, you'll be in charge of planning and building our next-generation mobile web experience and platform. You'll promote a mobile first; ideology across our organization, and evangelize responsive and adaptive design principles that scale from laptops and desktops to tablets. You'll architect and build a decentralized mobile web stack that is easy for all Gilt engineers to deploy to, contribute new features to, and test. You'll guide us in creating the fastest, richest mobile web experiences for our millions of users. And you'll be encouraged to take risks and challenge yourself in new ways; from developing your own open-source projects to submitting proposals to prestigious tech conferences.