Location: Onsite – USA
Type: Full Time
seeking a Javascript Engineer to join our small but quickly growing team. You are highly self-motivated, detail-oriented, and love to try new things and do them well. You will be part of a small web application development team – so you must be a problem solver, a fast learner, and comfortable wearing many hats. You enjoy a challenge and finding elegant solutions to complex problems, and thrive under pressure of high visibility deadlines. Above all you consider yourself a Javascript evangelist and trailblazer.
Responsibilities:
You will build and maintain features and tools for the client’s website and related projects to support sales of the models via applications like the interactive client configurator.
Requirements:
- S. or higher studies in Computer Science (or equivalent experience). Or other evidence of exceptional ability
- 5+ years’ experience writing clean, hand-coded HTML, Javascript and CSS in consumer-facing web applications.
- Mastery of web standards and cross-browser compatibility.
- Fundamental web technologies (e.g. HTTP, REST, and JSON) are second nature.
- Fluency in and extensive experience with JavaScript and modern libraries/frameworks like Bootstrap, Angular, React and Node.js.
- Experience using Javascript build tools such as Gulp and NPM.
- DOM manipulation and AJAX-enabled UIs are easy and standard operating procedure.
- Firebug, Developer Tools, or similar ways of debugging are like a best friend.
- Ability to speak in objects and prototypes just as easily as functions and operators.
- Ready to dive in on the server-side if needed — primarily PHP (knowing some Python is a plus).
- Perfectly happy in a LAMP development environment, and not afraid of Terminal, SSH, and Bash.
- Familiarity with open source development workflow using GIT, Fork, Pull Requests and branches.
Strengths:
- Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle, and familiarity with and embracer of modern Agile development methodologies (XP, Scrum, etc).
- Detail oriented eye for pixel perfect solutions.
- Excellent organization, communication and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent written and verbal English skills.
- A solid functional understanding of Coffeescript a plus.
- A love of Javascript unit testing and automation tools like Mocha, Phantomjs, and Gulp.
- You love working with data. Lots of it. And using it to build robust, scalable apps
- You perform well under constant pressure and aggressive timelines
- You know when to ask more questions and where to look for answers.
- Though familiar with Javascript frameworks (i.e. Angular/React), you roll up your sleeves and write your own code when the framework falls short.
- Experience with Node.js a plus.
- Experience with Drupal a huge plus.
- Experience writing basic REST APIs a plus
- Experience with MySQL or MongoDB a plus.
- Experience with PaaS or VM deployment using AWS or Docker a plus