Frontend Engineer, Growth

About the Job: 

The Growth team drives the trajectory of the business’s leads and revenue by inflecting its top-of-funnel acquisition and trial activation. We own and define the first impression of LaunchDarkly to new users, ensuring that every user feels successful, supported and delighted. We showcase the cutting-edge strengths of LaunchDarkly’s industry-leading technology—such as Guardian, Experimentation, and AI—through a seamless product experience.

Our Growth Engineers are data-driven, experimental, entrepreneurial, and open-minded to creating new opportunities to drive growth. As a member of the Growth Team, your work will directly impact time to first value (aka getting the user to their first “wow” moment). You will work on a cross-functional team that collaborates closely with product, marketing, and data teams to identify growth opportunities and drive impactful experiments. You’ll bring a strong attention to detail to make a product that is easy and delightful to use the first and every time.

Example projects include: trial onboarding, interactive demos that allow users to explore product features experiences, upsell experiences, and signup/activation optimizations.

Metrics that your work on Growth Team will positively impact:

• Self-service conversion rates of users from trials

• Percent of accounts who get to their first flag evaluation during trial

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with product managers, marketing teams, and data scientists to understand business goals, identify growth opportunities, and build user-facing features that drive product growth.

• Lead the development of frontend experiments aimed at improving user engagement, acquisition, and retention.

• Use data and insights to guide the development of growth features, implementing changes that directly impact the user experience and overall product success.

• Take full ownership of the design, development, and delivery of user-facing features, ensuring high performance, scalability, and seamless integration with backend systems. You’ll create dynamic and responsive web interfaces that elevate the overall user experience.

• Provide guidance on frontend architecture decisions, ensuring best practices are followed. Assess various technical trade-offs in experimentation to optimize for both performance and user engagement.

• Bring deep expertise in frontend development to influence product strategy and direction.

• Participate in discussions with product and marketing teams to develop innovative ideas that drive business growth through product-led initiatives.

• Work on a wide range of problems, using your expertise to analyze complex data and evaluate multiple factors that inform frontend solutions.

• You’ll resolve issues creatively and efficiently while improving and refining frontend components to meet evolving customer and business needs.

• Ensure the quality and reliability of the product through the development of comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.

• Participate in code reviews to uphold high standards of code quality across the team.

Qualifications:

• Experience with client-side web development (React, React Query, and Typescript)

• A commitment to working in a communicative and collaborative environment

• You enjoy working in quick iterations while keeping the quality bar high

• You write clear, maintainable code that others can easily understand

• You strive for high standards when working with production systems

• You prioritize code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices.

About LaunchDarkly:

Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise. Slow, inefficient development cycles, costly outages, and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software. The LaunchDarkly platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong. Developers can target product experiences to any customer segment and maximize the business impact of every feature. And by gradually rolling out new application components, they escape nightmare "big-bang" technology migrations. 

The LaunchDarkly platform was built to guide engineers to the next frontier of DevOps by:

• Improving the velocity and stability of software releases, without the fear of end customer outages
• Delivering targeted experiences by easily personalizing features to customer cohorts
• Maximizing the business impact of every feature through the ability to experiment and optimize
• Coordinating the release and optimization of software to provide consistent experiences across mobile platforms and device types
• Improving the effectiveness and productivity of engineering teams, by providing insights into engineering cadence and stability

At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. LD invites any applicant to review our written Affirmative Action Plan. To do so, contact People Ops at [email protected]. 

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