Full-Time Frontend Engineer
Ignition is hiring a remote Full-Time Frontend Engineer. The career level for this job opening is Experienced and is accepting Sydney, Australia based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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We’re looking for smart, talented and experienced team members that can take ownership, articulate their point of view and back their opinions with a well researched and knowledgeable stance.
Role purpose: Contribute to the ongoing improvement and development of our platform through domain-driven design and continuous deployment of high-quality software code and help the team grow.
What you will be doing:
- Building, improving, and maintaining existing frontend components
- Converting wireframes and mock-ups into fully functioning web applications
- Implementing the structure and design of web app sections
- Developing features to enhance the user experience
- Ensuring web design is optimized for smartphones
- Automating tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
- Supporting validation and verification testing
- Utilising a variety of markup languages to write web pages
- Delivering cross-browser compatibility for the platform
- Creating and maintaining software documentation
- Optimizing web pages for maximum speed and scalability
- Committing to support a safe, mindful, and productive team environment, maintaining open, honest, and respectful communication
- Learning from others and mentoring those around you to help them grow
- Playing an important role in shaping the technical direction of frontend development
How we do it:
- Building high-quality, clean, efficient, and reusable code for future use
- Collaborating with internal teams (developers, product leads, client-facing employees)
- Communicating design ideas and approaches to enhancing the platform
- Ensuring user experience determines design choices
- Collaborating with vendors to fix and improve products
Our tech stack: JavaScript (TypeScript), React.js with Chakra-UI, Webpack, Babel, GraphQL + Apollo Client, Cypress, Jest, Ruby/Rails (custom framework inspired by DDD), Postgres, Redis, AWS, CircleCI.
How we work:
- Distributed team
- Continuous Delivery
- Code Reviews
- Kanban
- Retrospectives
Who you are:
- Curiosity to develop knowledge of various programming languages and frameworks
- Engaging in robust and articulate dialogue while maintaining an open mind
- Unshakeable desire to write testable and well-tested code
- Skilled and dependable person who recognizes there's always more to learn
- Sense of humor and the ability to focus yet have a laugh in high-pressure situations
- Pragmatic, objective thinker who can weigh up options based on requirements, best fit, and tech maturity
What you need to succeed:
- Degree in Computer Science or related field and 4+ years of experience/ or 6+ years of equivalent experience
- Proficiency with React.js, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and modern JavaScript tooling
- Experience with responsive and adaptive design
- Good problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Good interpersonal skills