Job Description

Job Category: Software Engineer
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Are you a software developer who loves solving problems?
Would making an impact on the digital experiences of millions of users excite you?
Join our Control Center Web Team!
Our Edge Experience 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, you will thrive on delivering outstanding quality and functionality to our customers. You will conceptualize, build and maintain user interfaces and shared web components for our team. You will work in a collaborative capacity to translate visual design specifications and requirements into a fully functional UI for our 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 to a library of common components and development tooling
• Utilizing pixel-perfect layout skills and hand coding of both simple and complex cross-browser and cross-platform solutions
• 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 a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• Demonstrate familiarity with professional HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Show experience with Angular or a leading JavaScript framework
• Possess a clear understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Source Code Management Systems (we use git).
• Be familiar with software testing concepts including unit, functional, regression continuous integration, and performance testing

Work in a way that works for you
FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.
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We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.
At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.
Working for you
At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.
About us
Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.
Join us
Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!

Skills Required