Front-end web developer

Front-End Engineer

We are looking for a Front-End Developer responsible for the client side of our service. Your primary focus will be to implement a complete user interface in the form of a responsive mobile and desktop web app, with a focus on performance. Your main duties will include creating modules and components and coupling them together into a functional Angular 2 application. The artistic design and functional specifications will be delivered to you; it is your responsibility to implement the design and animations using SASS, TypeScript, and HTML5. You will work in a team with the back-end developer, and communicate with the API using standard methods. A thorough understanding of all of the components of our platform and infrastructure is required.

Responsibilities :

Delivering a complete front end application

Ensuring high performance on mobile and desktop

Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented TypeScript, HTML and SASS

Coordinating the workflow with the design and QA teams

• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API

Qualifications :

Professional, precise communication skills

Deep knowledge of Angular 2 practices and commonly used modules

Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components

Ability to provide SEO solutions for single page apps

Ability to implement accessible applications that can be used seamlessly in a screen reader or other accessible device

Extensive knowledge of CSS and JS methods for providing performant visual effects and keeping the framerate above 30fps at all times

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

Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed

Creating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and modules of core Angular

Experience with building the infrastructure for serving the front-end app and assets on a CDN

Architecting and automating the build process for production, using task runners or scripts in Gulp or Webpack

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

Experience with mobile frameworks such as Cordova for creating HTML / JS based mobile applications