Software Engineer Liveperson
Seattle, WA

Job Description

LivePerson makes life easier by transforming how people communicate with brands. Our 18,000 customers, including leading brands like Citibank, HSBC, Orange, and The Home Depot, use our conversational commerce solutions to orchestrate humans and AI, at scale, and create a convenient, deeply personal relationship - a conversational relationship - with their millions of consumers.

Software Engineer (Consumer Experiences - Web)

Join us to build intelligent consumer experiences used by billions of people to interact with the world's biggest brands. Our experiences are powered by one of the biggest OpenStack cloud services in the world that incorporates artificial intelligence, bots, big data, natural conversational interfaces and multi-modal messaging,

We are looking for Software Development Engineers who will be responsible for building our end-user facing web experiences & SDKs for real-time chat, messaging - using Node.JS, Hadoop, Kafka, Storm & Scala.

We won't put you in a box. Our technology is always adapting to "what's next." In addition to our in-house AI and messaging technology, we integrate with a host of partners including Watson, Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft, promising your projects will never get stale and you'll never stop learning.

Responsibilities

* Work collaboratively in a cross-functional team (PM, UX, engineering, science) team to transform user stories into prototypes & production code
* Thoughtfully apply UI design principles & best practices for the web
* Design re-usable front-end frameworks that power complex web applications
* Identify & eliminate perf. & scale issues that ripple from front-end to back-end
* Be globally minded & inclusive - we are a global team and value the diverse contributions of others.

Minimum Qualifications

* BA/B.Sc. in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent professional experience.
* Strong coding skills & ability to perform in a dynamic, agile & entrepreneurial environment
* 3+ years of client-side Vanilla JS development, AJAX
* Experience with Vue.js, React
* Deep knowledge and understanding of client-side architecture and experience building large scale web applications
* Experience with Java, Selenium, Git & JIRA

We care about you.

LivePerson works hard to create a positive employee experience. Your life outside of the office is important to us. We support our teams with competitive benefits and paid time-off that enables our family to take the time they need to recharge.

We want you to feel part of our LivePerson family.

Team events, daily snacks and happy hours on occasion will help you settle quickly into your new workplace.

You can read more about LivePerson and Our Principles here - https://www.liveperson.com/company/#guiding-principals

Our company believes equal opportunities for both genders is something that has been overlooked for too long.

To shake up the industry, LivePerson CEO Robert Locascio recently launched the Equal AI initiative - established to focus efforts on eradicating gender bias in AI engineering. We are also keen on getting women enthusiastic about software engineering by sponsoring "WomenHack" and "Female's Favor{IT}e Conference" events globally.

LivePerson provides equal employment opportunity without regard to an applicant's race, color, age, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other status protected under applicable law.