React Native

Are you a software developer who possesses magical React skills? Do you enjoy crafting intuitive, responsive, and scalable user interfaces? If so, we want you to join our team at Portle!

As a software engineer at Portle, you will have the opportunity to:

• Work on challenging problems everyday
• Design and develop excellent user experiences using React
• Collaborate with other engineers to ensure that our codebase is scalable, maintainable, and easily readable
• Learn to balance the creation of tech debt with delivering business requirements
• Understand complex problems, break them down into smaller ones, and solve each modularly

We are looking for someone with the following profile:

• Expertise in data structures and algorithms (extremely important)
• Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Experience with React and its latest features, such as hooks
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in an unstructured startup environment

At Portle, we value self-motivated individuals who do not need supervision to perform at their peak levels. We're looking for someone who's passionate about React and loves to wield its magic to create amazing software. If you're a React Sorcerer who's ready to take on a new challenge, we want to hear from you! Apply today and let us see your sorcery in action!

 About Freespace* (a.k.a. Workplace Fabric)  

Workplace Fabric develops solutions that makes workplaces intelligent. Our solutions help increase productivity of office workers while helping to lower the cost of real estate. Our Flagship 

product Freespace is installed in over 40 cities around the world and serves over 30,000 people every day. Starting with the first deployment in March 2016 we have rapidly grown with our solution being rolled out globally while continuing to stay cash positive. With successes at several blue-chip clients Workplace Fabric has carved a unique leadership position in workplace management and employee engagement SaaS solutions. 

*To find out more, follow us on social media – LinkedIn & Facebook @ workplace-fabric 

What is on our offer?  

• An absolutely action packed, fun, and demanding workplace lets our employees to thrive in a team-based environment with passion, fun, pride and teamwork as our core values. 
• We can offer you career opportunities to challenge, develop and exceed your aspirations with training and development throughout your career. 
• Life is never dull at Freespace as there is always something to learn, constantly pushing you to develop your skills and take on the next exciting challenge. 

 Profile Brief:  

You will be a creative Frontend Engineer with specialist React and visualization skills in our fast growing Analytics Team, creating dynamic dashboards to drive our client’s business insights.  

Working closely as an active team member, having ownership & accountability to develop the analytics stories, in delivering timely projects through Scrum. Working with product owners and team leads to clarifying requirements, challenge assumptions in order to ensure successful executions and push the client analytics to its best.  

Key Skills and Experience  

Required Skills: JavaScript (ES6+), React, amCharts, D3.js (or industry equivalent) 

Good to have: SQL, TypeScript, AWS, Scrum, IoT 

Experience: 4-6 years  

• A front-end and data visualization expert with 4+ years of experience  

• Ability to design widget or component based, scalable analytics dashboards 
• Expert in creating excellent user experience through quick loading dashboards and pixel-perfect design 
• Implement dashboard solutions with interactive and dynamic visualization to tell the story. 
• Hands-on and well-versed with at least one of React (preferred), Angular or Vue  
• Data processing and manipulation expert 

• Master in JavaScript with excellent understanding of asynchronous patterns  
• Comfortable with of ES6+, TypeScript & emerging web technologies  
• Able to easily comprehend and write SQL queries  
• Hands-on programmer  

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Key Behaviours  

• Have an open mind to turn business requirements into attractive yet practical visualisations. 

• Be passionate about understanding the business problem and using data to tell the stories in delivering solutions which drive client decisions. 
• Contribute to the success of the team through active participation, team work and owning project deliverables. 
• Contribute to high standards through personal delivery of data quality checks, code reviews and documentation in work and team practices. 
• Clear thinker with a systematic problem-solving approach, seeing a project through from conception to finished product. 
• Unafraid to own mistakes and be willing to challenge and feedback to enhance the team processes and solutions. 

• 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

. 3.5+ years of work experience on React.JS framework

· Has expertise in following front- end optimization techniques:

· Lazy Loading

· Asynchronous Module Definition

· Image Compression and Minification

· Other front-end tooling using Grunt / Webpack and NPM

· Familiarity with NodeJS, Jasmine / Karma and other unit testing frameworks

· Foundation data structure – Arrays, dictionaries, sets and lists

· Proficient in evaluating front end performance and measure accordingly

· Strong appetite to learn industry trends and new & emerging technologies

Your primary focus will be developing web applications and components. You'll implement them with the React.js framework, following generally accepted practices and workflows. You will ensure that you produce robust, secure, modular, and maintainable code. You will coordinate with other team members, including backend developers and UX/UI designers. Your commitment to team collaboration, good communication, and a quality product is crucial.

Day-to-day responsibilities include:

1. Developing new user-facing features using React.js and workflows like Redux.
2. Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
3. Translating designs and wireframes in high-quality code.
4. Optimising components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
5. Integrating APIs for complete functionality.
6. Write technical documentation.

Responsibilities include:

1. Experience developing desktop and mobile applications for a minimum of 2 years.

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

3. Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles

4. Should have experience with Redux and respective middlewares (eg. redux-thunk or redux-saga)

5. Familiarity with RESTful APIs

6. Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token

7. Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

8. Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

9. Knowledge of D3.js would be plus

Skills Required: HTML/CSS, Javascript, React.js, Redux.

Required Experience: 2 - 4 year of experience