Candidate Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of work experience as a web developer or similar 

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model 

• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles 

• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux) 

• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript 

• Experience with data structure libraries (E.g. Immutable.js) 

• Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus 

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs 

• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token 

• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools 

• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc. 

• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements 

• A knack for benchmarking and optimization 

• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial

• Graph QL Data consumption 

You’ll be set up for success if you have:

• Experience in building cloud-hosted services 

• Experience with DevOps 

• Ability to effectively communicate technical ideas to others 

• Ability to write tests 

• Track record of successful software delivery through all phases of development, code reviews, testing, and operations 

• Experience with ReactJS or VueJS and Redux or flux or mobx 

Even better if you have:

• Experience with Node.js 

• Experience with AWS 

• Experience with infrastructure and deployment automation 

• Experience with payment systems 

• Experience with authentication and user management 

• Worked on large scale web applications 

• Leverages and contributes to open source 

Note: There is no need to be an expert in all the above technologies, but a willingness to learn and basic knowledge in some would be a benefit.

Success criteria 

To be successful in this position, you should have a good understanding of vanilla JavaScript and have experience with unit tests. You have demonstrated the ability to use common industry tools for software development including but not limited to IDEs, build and continuous integration, source control management, code review tools, data storage services, and cloud infrastructure, and you are able to build software in a professional team environment delivered to production using these tools. You are able to take documented designs prepared by more experienced engineers and contribute code to implement the design working solo or with other engineers together. You are able to provide technical documentation describing your contributions and contribute enhancements to your team’s best practices.