React Developer

About OpenGrowth:

At OpenGrowth, we are on a mission to empower entrepreneurs and transform their dreams into reality. We understand the challenges and aspirations that come with starting and growing a business, and our goal is to provide the necessary support and resources to help entrepreneurs thrive.

With a deep passion for fostering innovation and collaboration, OpenGrowth serves as a vibrant community where entrepreneurs can connect, learn, and grow together. Our platform offers a comprehensive suite of services, including expert guidance, educational resources, startup services, and a virtual collaboration platform called OpenGrowth Hub.

We believe in the power of entrepreneurship to drive positive change and create financial independence. Through our tailored solutions, we aim to equip entrepreneurs with the knowledge, skills, and connections they need to succeed. Whether you're just starting out or looking to scale your business, OpenGrowth is here to support you every step of the way.

Join us on this exciting journey and be part of a dynamic community of entrepreneurs. Together, we can unleash your full potential and shape a future of innovation, growth, and success. Welcome to OpenGrowth, where entrepreneurial dreams become a reality.

Company Website - www.opengrowth.com

What You'll Be Doing

• Developing new user-facing features using React.js
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

What We Need To See

• 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)
• 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}
• Minimum Experience Required - 2+ Years (In React)

• 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
• 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)

StoryXpress (a Techstars-backed company) is an end-to-end video platform and is an efficient and effective way of humanizing the way you promote and sell your product or services, and communicate with your customers. With a suite of professional video tools (Video Creator, Video Recorder, Video Hosting and Analytics, Video APIs, and SDKs), we help small and medium-sized businesses drive more revenue through the strategic use of video. Founded in 2014, StoryXpress has a rich community of 500K+ users including small enterprises to Fortune 500 companies.

What your role would be?

We are seeking a Front End Developer to join our core engineering team. Teams are explicitly small and built on mutual respect and high trust. It's not a fit for everyone, but when there's a fit, it’s one of the most rewarding places to work.

Job Responsibilities and Duties

We believe the best product is the one that helps users accomplish their goals while growing the business. To join us on this journey, you'll be required to:

• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Optimize applications for performance and scalability.

Job Requirements:

You’ll thrive as a Front End Developer at StoryXpress if you:

• Have a good understanding of the core fundamentals of JavaScript
• Have 2+ years designing and implementing rich front-end experiences in React
• Are an expert in web technologies ( HTML5 | CSS3 | ES6 )
• Possess a thorough understanding of the MVC principle and JS design patterns
• Have experience with building user interfaces consuming data from REST APIs

Brownie points!

Your application would be seriously prioritized if you:

• Are a self-starter: you have started something on your own before - a startup, an open-source project, something else.
• Experienced in building and/or maintaining chrome extensions
• Indulged in projects around Data Visualization
• UX design principles and frameworks
• Are acquainted with testing frameworks and performance measurement tools

If you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying. Studies show that you can still be considered for a role if you meet just 50% of the role’s requirements. We’re building a diverse team whose skills balance and complement one another.

Why work with us?

You'll love working and growing with StoryXpress if you are comfortable:

• With and curious about working outside of a traditional narrow engineering role.
• Engaging in collaborative problem-solving with your teammates.
• Moving fast: we build, solve problems quickly, and ship often!

Ready to apply?

Are you excited at the possibility of developing an already stellar team to meet the growing needs of our platform and business? Does this opportunity to be a part of one of our young and supportive teams and solve hard problems sound amazing to you? If you share our values and enthusiasm for empowering the world, we’d love to review your application!

• Languages: Javascript, Typescript, CSS
• Framework: React 17, knowledge of React hooks is important and knowledge about react context and redux is required too
• Packages manager: npm, yarn
• Knowledge of REST and GraphQL
• Control version: Git
• Hosting & deployment: AWS Amplify
• The automation UI was written in Vue therefore knowing about Vue may be a plus

How many hours are they expected to work? 

• - Full time position ( 40+ hours a week) 
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What hours should they work?

•  - Prefer 9-5 EST but there is wiggle room
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Will there be nights and weekends? 

• - Nights and weekends are not scheduled, however we are looking for someone that takes pride in their work and will lean in to hit a deadline or to fix a bug if it has a significant impact on the platform.
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Should they be expected to lead?

• - Yes, you should be expected to lead and to communicate/ cooperate with other devs as a team. Some coding might be alone but the hope of the app is that it all works seamlessly together and to ensure that there needs to be communication among all devs front end and back end. 
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Who will they report to?

• - They will report to Product OwnerRob and Product ManagerJulietta daily for standups and well as pushing tasks through the appropriate structure of review, QA, and production. 
• They will also report and check in with Client SuccessCourtney as we look to make the app have a seamless customer experience and customer value. The goal of Attribute should be to try and give as much value as quickly and easily as possible.

Will they work alone or in a team?

• In some spots they might be expected to work alone and on a separate sprint from others, however, everything needs to tie in and work together, because of that the developer must be team oriented in both development and problem solving.
• Additionally, there will be times that they should expect to work with people who are not particularly tech savvy ( ie. sales, marketing, customer success etc.) to collaborate on a specific feature to produce the best thing for the product.

Accountability

• The developer is both accountable for their code and the code of the team. They should take care and responsibility in the work that is done and if there are problems with the code in QA or production work as diligently as possible to fix that problem ( whether it is their code directly or not).
• As part of this all code will be attached from Github to Jira for developers to constantly upload their commits to Jira tasks
• A mistake is completely fine and expected, bugs are to be expected. What is asked is that you report it as soon as possible and are honest about it so that we can move forward in resolving it as soon as possible.

Customer, Usability, and Value Focused

• The end user of our product will be marketing professionals/head of marketing. At all times the developers need to take this into account and spend time thinking of the ease and the use cases that people will utilize their code or features in real life versus what is a way to make something work but in a vacuum. 

Quality focused

• Pushing out code is awesome, but if the code has a ton of bugs and does not do the required action that is practical for the user then it does not matter. We want a developer who is Quality focused and also hold their other developers accountable.

Focused on the whole 

• When producing a feature it is easy to sometime get sucked into how that features works in a vacuum. The developers need to be able to work together and understand the software architecture as a whole in order to make whatever feature they are working on be able to work with the other features that are built within the app ( and will be built or are on the roadmap for the future).

Creativity and Experimentation

• Developers are expected to work within structures, however, they are always encouraged to take time to think of creative solutions and to collaborate on new features or ways of making the product better.

Unfeathered, Honest, Respectful Communication

• Every developer should feel free to speak their mind in a respectful manner to other developers as well as anyone else in the entirety of the company. Any opinion, thought, or perspective will be listened to and valued. 

Next Man or Woman Up Mentality

• Never should anyone on the team defer a problem and say “ thats not my fault or problem”. We are one unit and one company. One problem is everyone's problem and should lean in to the “next man up philosophy” if you have the time and can help to fix the problem and bring it to a solution you should be willing to.

Upward Mobility and Vesting Opportunity

• This position will allow for upward mobility, increased responsibility, and for people who constantly go above and beyond an opportunity to vest into and own equity in the company

JavaScript

- ReactJS

- Redux-Saga

- ES6 (or TypeScript) syntax

- Good problem-solving

- Good debugging

Good to have :

- TypeScript experience

- Material UI experience

- JEST knowledge

- Git and Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket experience

• Develop and manage apps on React Native platform
• Analyse, code, debug, test, document & deploy applications
• Provide technical leadership and upgrade architecture design and solution to accommodate future expansion
• Ensure quality control processes are successfully employed.
• Experience in React-Native based app development is a must
• Experience in Mobile app development (Cross platform apps)
• Must have published at least 1 major React-Native app
• Knowledge of service workers implementation for Progressive Web Application (PWA)
• Demonstrated ability with HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, jQuery, and other JS frameworks React JS
• Development experience of UI (layouts, animations, etc.)
• Good understanding of Design and Architecture Patterns
• Understanding of iOS and Android Code signing process and deployment model
• Understanding of Unit Testing, Debugging Methodology used in React Native Apps
• Understanding on integration of native modules with React Native code
• Experience with caching and scaling techniques