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Job Description: Tell us about your department:
Site Performance is part of Online Experiences and our goal is to use innovation patterns to create new tools, process, and Proofs of Concepts that we pair with data / metrics to provide our engineering teams with what they need to be successful in making bestbuy.com a more performant website
Project Description:
50% JavaScript coding / innovation
50% stakeholder management and shepherding
Position Summary/Job Description:
Speed equals happier customers and employees! Based on both qualitative and quantitative measures, we can unequivocally say that our customers value a fast website and reward us with their business. Additionally, and with slightly less precision, our belief is that building a culture of performance will improve our employee experience by increasing the pride we take in what we build.
We exist to stay ahead of the moving target that is site performance. Our stakeholders should view us as experts with the ability and willingness to help them achieve performance goals. While we don’t write code for them, we’re their trusted advisors. Additionally, our group explores new technologies that could benefit our teams and customers. Lastly, and maybe most importantly, we view ourselves as the stewards of building a Culture of Performance. Our continuation of performance will only happen when everyone is consistently bought into the process.
A successful engineer on this team is excited to innovate, test those innovations and help the broader organization adopt those innovations.
How much time will the resource spend pair programming?
10%
Skills Overview:
What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?
Javascript 4 years
React 2 year
Stakeholder management / team lead 2 year
Experience/comfort speaking to/with large groups (25+ people)
What are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for?
Any experience with Site Performance, Web Vitals, or Lighthouse performance scores
Any experience with Dynatrace or Speedcurve
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: Up to $70.00 per hour
Schedule:
Education:
Experience:
- JavaScript: 4 years (Preferred)
- React: 2 years (Preferred)
- Team Lead: 2 years (Preferred)
- Site Performance: 2 years (Preferred)
- Web Vitals: 2 years (Preferred)
- Dynatrace: 2 years (Preferred)
- Speedcurve: 2 years (Preferred)
Work Location: Remote
