Position: Front End Team Lead for Seeking Alpha
Company: ciklum.com
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

The company is the premier website for actionable stock market opinion and analysis, and vibrant, intelligent finance discussion. Each month our crowdsource investment analysis draws an audience of 5.2MM+ monthly visitors to our real-time alerts products on email and mobile.

We handpick articles from the world’s top market blogs, money managers, financial experts and investment newsletters, publishing 500 unique article and news updates daily. The company gives a voice to over 5.5MM registered users, including 12,000+ contributors and individuals averaging 130,000+ comments a month, providing access to the nation’s savviest and inquisitive investors.

Our site is the only free, online source for over 5,000 public companies’ quarterly earnings call transcripts, including the S&P 500. The company was named the Most Informative Website by Kiplinger’s Magazine and has received Forbes’ ‘Best of the Web’ Award.

Description

On behalf of Seeking Alpha, Ciklum is lookng for Front End Team Lead to join our team on a full-time basis.

Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of talented engineers in a zero-downtime environment where code is deployed multiple times a day
- Own and lead new feature development, testing and bug management
- Collaborate with project managers, participate in design and planning discussions, contribute architecture ideas
- Develop and test new user-facing features
- Write highly scalable, reusable and testable code

Requirements
- 5+ years of experience with Javascript
- 3+ years of front-end development experience in building large, complex, highly scalable React-based single page web applications
- Knowledge of Agile principles, open-source ecosystem
- Advanced English reading / writing / speaking
- Experience in OOP and MVC design and development patterns. Good understanding of data structures and design patterns
- Comfortable with source version control software and package managers (Git, NPM)
- Knowledge and understanding of client-side architecture best practices
- Competent JavaScript programmer who doesn't need to rely on libraries to accomplish innovative interactions
- Experience with CSS3 and Less/Sass (ability to write mixings, partials, use source maps, etc). Deep understanding of Mobile-first Responsive design. Experience with Twitter Bootstrap or Foundation Framework
- Understanding of the interplay between JavaScript and HTML & CSS, with a focus on performance. Strong proficiency in JavaScript / ES6, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model. Good understanding of browser rendering behavior. Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
- Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc
- Expert level hands on experience and understanding of React.js and its core principles. Proficiency in building reusable components and modules. Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux, CSS-in-JS)
- Possess and understanding of all major browsers and the special considerations required for all various quirks. Knowledge of browser internals like Javascript engines, native DOM, Event APIs and ways to tune code for the best performance
- Deep understanding of the HTTP protocol, browser networking

Desirable
- Experience working in a UNIX environment
- You've built and delivered an app on Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform
- Experience with PWAs, Service Workers and client-side caching
- Experience in web standards, semantic web, accessibility and SEO and the interplay between them
- Having a Github portfolio or link to open source work.

What's in it for you
- Career growth opportunities
- Realization of your innovative ideas in building new Ciklum Solutions and Services
- Friendly collaborative teams and enjoyable working environment
- Professional skills development and training programs
- Variety of knowledge sharing, training and self-development opportunities
- State of the art, cool, centrally located offices with warm atmosphere which creates really good working conditions