Position: Frontend Developer (Middle)
Company: Sora Union
Experience required: 3y
Category: JavaScript
English level: upper
Published: 2023-02-01T00:00:00+02:00

**Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not. Sora Union changes that.**
Sora Union is a professional services company specializing in design, localization and QA projects for businesses, organizations and governments. The Sora Union team is globally-distributed and made up of diverse and talented professionals impacted by or at-risk of displacement due to conflict or climate change.

We’re looking for a talented **Front-End Developer** to join our team and help our clients build incredible solutions to meet their goals and visions.
To make this possible, we need the right combination of process and people - and that’s where you come in. In this role, you will work on a variety of front-end development projects, including websites, web apps, and mobile apps. 

**You’ll be responsible for:**
- Working closely with product designers, localization specialists, and QA engineers  to refine and implement new ideas, rapidly taking them from concept to release
- Building both quick prototypes and robust production systems
- Helping to set the technical direction for our web applications, including choosing new directions of the tech stack and evolving architecture
- Planning and coordinating with backend engineers to design APIs and infrastructure
- Developing testing strategies to ensure the quality of your work

**The ideal candidate will have :**
- 3-5 years in professional software engineering roles
- A clear understanding of the architecture of a web application and its separate components
- Built complex web-based products from scratch 
- You’re an expert at building applications in HTML, CSS and TypeScript using frameworks like React and Next.js
- Experience working closely with designers. You speak their language, share their values and are familiar with Figma
- Experience working on a variety of projects. You’ve got breadth to go with your depth
- Exceptional communication skills, with an aptitude to convey clear thoughts and ideas
- English level — ability to communicate verbally with English-speaking clients and co-workers
- Worked in a startup environment. You’re comfortable with ambiguity and change
- Delivered on ambitious goals. At the end of the day, you’re a doer

The Front-End Developer role will report to a Sora Union Co-Founder, with a direct working relationship with the engineering leader at the client in which it is embedded. While initially a **6-month contract position**, we intend to convert it to a full-time employment relationship. This role is a distributed position, and can be based in any location.