Cloud - Senior JavaScript Engineer - Billing - remote

Posted 3 years ago  • Austin, TX

Elastic is a search company that powers enterprise search, observability, and security solutions built on one technology stack that can be deployed anywhere. From finding documents to monitoring infrastructure to hunting for threats, Elastic makes data usable in real time and at scale. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Barclays, Cisco, eBay, Fairfax, ING, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. Founded in 2012, Elastic is a distributed company with Elasticians around the globe. Learn more at elastic.co

About the team

The Cloud Billing team’s mission is to provide a simple, transparent and flexible SaaS billing experience based on the consumption of cloud resources and other Elastic services. Our team creates software that collects usage data from distributed data sources, transports them reliably and accurately using data pipelines, monetizes it to produce billing data. Cloud is the fastest growing product in Elastic and the Billing team is the strategic area for supporting that growth.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced UI developer to help us make an immediate impact to our monetization strategy. You will lead the design and presentation of billing artifacts that enables transparency to our users. As the primary front end developer in the team you will have the opportunity to break ground on new features, establish coding standards and help the team to grow as we scale. This role will require collaboration with product managers, design team and other UI developers to achieve our goals.

What You Will Be Doing:

  • Make it easy for customers to consume billing artifacts like usage reports, invoices and cost analysis
  • Collaborate with backend engineers to create code that integrates with real-time data streams and API endpoints
  • Partner with Data Analysts, Product Managers and Designers to provide billing transparency to our users
  • Write and maintain high-quality Typescript and JavaScript code.
  • Build data visualisations and UI workflows that serve our users across multiple solutions.
  • Participate in code reviews for your team and other teams
  • Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

What You Bring Along:

  • You care deeply about the design and quality of the features you ship
  • 5+ years working in a Senior front end focused role
  • Passionate about JavaScript or web development in general
  • TypeScript and React experience
  • Experience visualizing and presenting data
  • Strong communication and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to work autonomously in a globally distributed team
  • Curiosity to learn SaaS business concepts like pricing, growth, conversions and retention

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

We're looking to hire team members invested in realizing the goal of making real-time data exploration easy and available to anyone. As a distributed company, we believe that diversity drives our vibe! Whether you're looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life.

  • Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
  • Equity
  • Double your charitable giving - we match up to $1500 (or local currency equivalent)
  • Global minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave (moms &dads)
  • Generous vacation time and one week of volunteer time off 
  • Your age is only a number. It doesn't matter if you're just out of college or your children are;we need you for what you can do

Elastic is an Equal Employment employer committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action for all applicants and employees. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation. Elastic also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled employees consistent with applicable law.

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