Senior Software Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer, reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will design, build, and evolve our customer-facing portal and related web experiences, delivering features and improvements that provide direct value to our users.
 
You will focus on the portal front end, responsive UIs, workflows, and integrations, while partnering with backend and platform teams. Where product direction includes intelligent capabilities, you will help surface AI-assisted experiences in the portal (e.g., integrating AI-powered APIs, copilot-style features, or ML-driven insights) with attention to usability, trust, and performance.
 
You are also expected to use AI-assisted development tools as part of your day-to-day work, responsibly and in line with team standards, to improve productivity, explore solutions, and ship quality code faster.

Key Responsibilities

•    Gather requirements, design, develop, test, and ship portal features while collaborating in a dynamic and results-driven environment.
•    Lead and contribute to portal development using React, TypeScript, and JavaScript, including component architecture, state management, routing, and integration with REST or GraphQL APIs.
•    Leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g., coding assistants, generation, refactoring, or test suggestions) as part of the engineering workflow—while validating outputs, preserving security and privacy, and following code review and organizational policies.
•    Take an active role in mentoring junior engineers.
•    Make a direct impact on the success of WatchGuard as a company.
•    Participate in on-call rotation approximately once every 2 months.

Ideal Candidate Profile

•    5+ years of professional front-end development experience, including substantial production experience with React.
•    Strong proficiency in TypeScript and modern JavaScript (ES modules, async patterns, typing for scalable UIs).
•    Comfort applying AI tools in the software development lifecycle (e.g., f...