Frontend Lead Engineer

Work Profile

• Delivering a complete front end application in AgularJS
• Ensuring high performance on mobile and browser with reusable and modular components spanning cross multiple projects
• Coordinating the workflow between the graphic designer, the HTML coder, and yourself
• Integrate with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API
• Communicating with external web services for 3rd Party tools and services integration

Requirement

• Experience and proficiency with AngularJS, JavaScript and HTML5
• Deep knowledge of AngularJS practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
• Ability to provide SEO solutions and optimization
• 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 AngularJS

Seeking a senior, dynamic, highly motivated full stack developer interested in working for a very early stage bootstrap startup. We have a Beta/MVP live, but need to get bug free and fast ASAP. The position has pay commensurate with local salaries in low-cost countries but will earn equity equivalent to their salary which could be worth up to more than that when the company is successful. I can show you our assumptions and estimates once you sign an NDA).

About Us
We are a company dedicated to helping people find the food they love, no matter what food interests or dietary preferences they may have. You’ll be joining in the very early stages of the company, and have the chance to influence the direction of the company with your ideas and contributions.

Our Tech Stack (Front End):

• JQuery
• Bootstrap
• EJS templates
• HTML/CSS All new modules
• js with a team-maintained and crowd-sourced component library Middleware/Back end.
• Express
• js
• MongoDB
• MySQL
• API layer
• Elastic Search

Desired attributes:

• Enjoys iterative/agile development – We will iterate based on internal and customer feedback until we make an awesome product! We also have a very deep and compelling product roadmap we make consistent progress against.
• Works well collaboratively with other developers, contributing to the codebase, performing code reviews, and mentoring a team of junior developers. We have a lot of junior developers learning to code that need mentorship/leadership.
• A passion for food would be great, our business is to help pair people up with amazingly good food.
• Results-oriented

Responsibilities:

• Ability to build on and maintain a fully functional responsive web application
• Experience building API-driven applications

Qualifications:

• CS Degree is great but development skills are more important than degrees
• Ability to build and maintain a fully responsive website
• Prefer proficiency in our tech stack, but willing to teach people who are highly motivated and can spend significant time on the project for equity.
• GitHub or similar source code management system experience
• Nice to have: Experience developing customer-facing web applications

This is a remote position.

About Company

Our client is angle funded,  growth stage B2B SaaS startup that enables a seamless and streamlined collaboration between big pharma, bio-techs and their external manufacturing partners.

Job Profile

• Develop all user-facing products in React.JS
  
• Build reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
  
• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code
  
• Focus on code maintainability and performance of application.
• Provide technical advice and assists in solving programming problems

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Good foundation in design and a knack for designing interactions and elegant interfaces
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Good to have experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Experience with data structure libraries
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• A knack for bench-marking and optimization
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git)
• Proficient in industry standard best practices such as Design Patterns, Coding Standards, Coding module, Prototypes etc.
• Experience in using debugging tools used for profiling/optimizing performance
• Experience in debugging, tuning and optimizing UI components

At Spoonshot, we are building one of a kind SaaS tools for the F & B industry, the product you will develop is used by some of the largest food companies in the world. We are looking for programmers with a keen eye for design for the position of Front End Developer. Frontend Developers are responsible for ensuring the alignment of web design and user experience requirements, optimizing web pages for maximum efficiency and maintaining brand consistency across all web pages, among other duties.

An ideal candidate would be one who has a minimum of 2 years experience in designing and delivering high performing and pixel perfect frontend applications, who has passion for startups and can work independently under tight deadlines.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Reviewing application requirements and interface designs.
• Developing and implementing highly-responsive user interface components using React concepts
• Implementing web-based user interactions.
• Writing application interface codes using JavaScript following React JS workflows.
• Developing and implementing front-end architecture to support user interface concepts.
• Monitoring and improving front-end performance.
• Optimising web pages for maximum speed and scalability.
• Work alongside with product engineering, designer and product manager. Ensure all elements on web creation are consistent.

Job Skills:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Understanding of software engineering practices and key design principles.
• At least one progress web app developed by you must be live.
• Proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery.
• Understanding of server-side CSS.
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design.
• Eye for details in UX/UI.
• Experience with optimising SEO of websites and webapps.
• In-depth knowledge and passion for JavaScript, CSS, HTML and front-end languages
• Expertise in React tools including Web pack, Enzyme, Redux, and Flux.