About the position
As a front end developer, you will focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux). You will be responsible for ensuring that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. Other duties include coordinating with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure in all phases of the software development lifecycle in a fast-paced agile setup, writing reusable, testable, and efficient code, developing new user-facing features using React.js, building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use, translating designs and wireframes into high quality code, optimizing components for high performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers, implementing software enhancements and suggesting improvements, implementing security and data protection, performance tuning, improvement, balancing, usability, automation, working collaboratively with UI/UX Designers, Product Owners and Architects to understand end user requirements to provide technical solutions and for the implementation of new software features, and participating in feature grooming, providing inputs in design and performing story point estimation.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure in all phases of the software development lifecycle in a fast-paced agile setup.
- Write reusable, testable, and efficient code.
- Develop new user-facing features using React.js.
- Build reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
- Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code.
- Optimize components for high performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
- Implement software enhancements and suggest improvements.
- Implementation of security and data protection.
- Performance tuning, improvement, balancing, usability, automation.
- Work collaboratively with UI/UX Designers, Product Owners and Architects to understand end user requirements to provide technical solutions and for the implementation of new software features.
- Participate in feature grooming, provide inputs in design and perform story point estimation.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
- 3+ years of experience as a front-end developer in Agile scrum development team.
- 2+ years of experience building interfaces in React.js.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs.
- Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token.
- Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and test frameworks such as Jest or Jasmine.
- Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
Benefits
- 3 weeks paid vacation + 12 paid holidays + PTO days.
- Full health benefits including employer HSA contributions + dental plan with an orthodontic option, wellness coaching available.
- Matching 401K.
- Generous tuition reimbursement program.
- Generous paid parental leave.
- Friendly and supportive coworkers.
