THE CONTEXT

As a Front-End Developer, you will join one of our Squads for the development of new features for the product.

You will be a member of a large engineering team extended between France (around 40 people), Italy (around 10 people) and Hungary (around 12 people) and a few people in the United States. In this team you collaborate with profiles ranging from PO / PM to SRE, including QA, UX, frontend and backend engineers, etc.

Our stack is based on GCP, Terraform, App Engine, Datastore, BigQuery, Java, Angular / Typescript. Our architecture is mainly based on the REST approach. And we use a little Pub / Sub.

Our product provides sensitive service to our customers. Our requirements for availability and reliability are very high.

LOCATION

This is a Full Remote position in France.

Core responsibilities:

• Implementing substantial features, fixing bugs

• Writing technical specifications

• Proactively proposing code and performance improvements

• Helping set and maintain a high professional standard

• Helping create new webapps for our new products

• Being responsible for the code base, improving it and reviewing it (peer reviews) with the other fronted devel

• Simplifying the code base

Some examples of what you could work on:

• Implementing a simplified version of the present webapp

• Creating reusable frontend components

• Concluding, with others, the migration to Angular

• Making the webapp as autonomous as possible from the backend

• Revamping and simplifying the Ui of our workflow engine

• Introducing more attractive and powerful Frontend languages to improve our stack and make our offer more attractive to future recruits

• Speeding up our release cycle

• Improving the way we track user behavior

Some examples of what we did in the last few months alone:

• Worked on a new Ui for a specific use case

• Finished the migration to angular of one the main components of our webapp

• Introduced mocks to accelerate our development process

• Entirely refactor our Views, the most used page in our application

• Started to work with Google on a new webapp to address a specific use case they have

• Created and deployed several features

Most of those describe you:

• You care more about making reliable software used by many than a shiny unstable thing used by no one. You understand that engineering work is done first and foremost for the customers.

• You care more about making easy to use software that will help users address their preoccupation and solve their problems.

• You care a lot about performance, understand that speed and responsiveness is a core feature

• Fully capable of taking substantial features from concept to shipping as the sole programmer

• You’re a team player

Requirements:

• Experience: 2-8 years as a professional programmer, at least 3 years as a Frontend developer on SaaS products

• Cloud: Bonus is an experience with one of the 3 main cloud platforms. Bonus points for GCP and serverless experience

• Programming languages: you have experience with Javascript, Typescript, Vue Angular or Angular.js.

• Software engineering tools: you’ve worked with Git and Jira, you’re familiar with front-end build tools. Bonus for: benchmarking, CI/CD and profiling tools

• Collaboration tools: comfortable with Gmail, Google Docs and Sheets, and Slack

• Language: English at professional level + French.

• Writing: you enjoy writing, you care about words and grammar, you are sharp and thorough.