Front End Software Engineer

Do you relish the prospect of working with cutting edge technology?

Do you love collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?

Join our world-class Cloud Manager Team

Our Cloud Manager Team is a group of dedicated professionals shaping Akamai's aspirations to create an industry-leading user experience. We take ownership for the design and development for core interfaces, applications, APIs and services. We create an experience that allows customers and internal stakeholders to build software using the best of internal and third-party technologies.

Partner with the best

As a Front End Software Engineer, deliver exceptional quality and functionality to customers. Design, develop, and maintain user interfaces and shared web components. Collaborate effectively to transform visual design specifications and requirements into fully functional interfaces for web applications.

As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Building powerful, yet easy-to-use next generation web applications to achieve consistent user experience across our multiple applications.
• Contributing on a shared component library while delivering pixel-perfect, cross-browser layouts through expert hand-coding.
• Contributing to all aspects of the project lifecycle: define, design, develop, and test.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have experience in software development and Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or it's equivalent
• Have experience with professional HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Have experience with React or a leading JavaScript framework
• Have a clear understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Source Code Management Systems e.g GIT.
• Demonstrate familiarity with software testing concepts, including unit, functional, regression, continuous integration (CI), and performance testing.

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.

We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.