Senior Software Engineer - Front-End Focus, Hybrid, Milpitas, CA
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++This is a hybrid position, located in the Milpitas, CA office++
Meet the Team
Cisco's Webex Engineering Group is redefining the future of collaboration. We're building a world where people connect effortlessly to enjoy modern, uncompromised collaboration across every room, desk, pocket, and application.
Our technology powers industry-leading products such as Slido, Webex Meetings, Webex Calling, and Webex Contact Center. As a member of our team, your work will ensure every user gets a truly immersive experience regardless of device or location, empowering the hybrid working patterns of the future.
Your Impact
As a Front-End Software Engineer on the Webex Control Hub team, you will build experiences that help global customers and partners manage their Webex services with confidence and efficiency. Your work will directly influence the usability, reliability, and performance of a critical enterprise platform.
Build accessible, responsive, and maintainable user experiences using TypeScript, Angular/React/Vue, HTML, CSS, and modern frontend practices.
Translate product requirements and designs into reusable UI components and intuitive customer workflows.
Integrate frontend experiences with backend services and APIs, partnering closely with designers and backend engineers.
Improve application performance, reliability, and usability by identifying and resolving frontend issues.
Develop automated unit and end-to-end tests that protect product quality and support confident releases(Playwright E2E tests, Jest unit tests).
Contribute to the modernization of a large-scale application, including work across Angular and legacy frontend technologies.
Use AI-assisted development tools(Codex, Cursor) thoughtfully to accelerate learning, explore solutions, and improve productivity while maintaining code quality and security.
Share knowledge through code reviews, documentation, collaboration, and mentorship.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree, combined with 7 years of experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, combined with 4 years of experience or PhD, combined with 1 year of related experience.
Professional experience with TypeScript and modern JavaScript.
Experience building production web applications with Angular or a comparable component-based framework like React, Vue.
Understanding of frontend architecture, reusable components, SPA-based routing, forms, and browser fundamentals.
Experience integrating frontend applications with REST APIs or comparable service interfaces.
Experience with code repository, build and deployment pipelines(Github, Jenkins, harness).
Preferred Qualifications
Building production web applications with component-based framework.
Ability to handle API errors, asynchronous workflows, permissions, empty states, and loading states.
Experience with Nx monorepos, Module-Federation or Micro-frontends architecture.
Experience with NgRx, RxJS, or equivalent reactive programming.
Experience with handling SaaS applications, administrative platforms and security workflows.
Ability to work in a large codebase with multiple teams.
At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:The starting salary range posted for this position is $167,700.00 to $245,200.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:
10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:
.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and
Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.
The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:
New York City Metro Area:
$167,700.00 - $282,000.00Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$149,100.00 - $250,900.00* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.
** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.
How we rate this
Senior Software Engineer - Front-End Focus, Hybrid, Milpitas, CA at Cisco rates 21 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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