Software Engineer Front End

Job Description

We are looking for a Front End Engineer responsible for the client side of our service. Your primary focus will be to implement a complete user interface in the form of a desktop web app, with a focus on performance. Your main duties will include creating modules and components and coupling them together into a functional app. The artistic design will be delivered to you, together with a few HTML templates, but we will ask for your help regarding animations, CSS, and final HTML output. You will work closely with the back-end team to decide REST contracts; hence a thorough understanding of all of the components of our platform and infrastructure is required.

Responsibilities

Skills and Qualifications

• Must have 3-5 years of experience in JavaScript. Must be a Professional, with excellent communication skills.
• Expert in React Redux, Redux Saga, ES6 and Object Oriented Javascript. React native would be a plus. Working knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3.
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
• Ensuring a clear dependency chain, regarding the app logic as well as the file system
• Ability to provide SEO solutions for single page apps
• Extensive knowledge of CSS and JS methods for providing performant visual effects and keeping the framerate above 30fps always
• Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system
• Validating user actions on the client side and providing responsive feedback
• Experience with all levels of operation available to the front-end, such as from creating XHRs in vanilla JS to using a custom wrapper around $resource
• Experience with building the infrastructure for serving the front-end app and assets
• Architecting and automating the build process for production, using task runners or scripts
• Documenting the code inline using JSDoc or other conventions
• Writing extensive unit tests using automated TDD tasks
• Creating e2e test suites for all components, and running them with Protractor (or a well-reasoned alternative)
• Creating configuration, build, and test scripts for Continuous Integration environments
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• We expect an entrepreneurial mind-set, someone who is not afraid to take on new challenges every day and who considers the product as his own by taking complete ownership of it