Position: Front-end Engineer (Activation squad)
Company: Preply
Experience required: 3y
Category: JavaScript
English level: upper
Published: 2021-02-01T00:00:00+02:00

**Activation squad** is responsible for tutor search pages and our mission is to help students find a suitable tutor in the most comfortable way. These pages are visited by tens of thousands of users daily, coming from search engines and marketing campaigns. We’re constantly iterating over ideas and hypotheses by launching A/B tests to improve user experience.

**Our latest projects:**
- Website page load speed monitoring system. We optimised website performance through A/B testing to make sure our pages load as fast as possible.
- Full text search bar on tutor search pages. It allows users to search for tutors using any word or phrase, to make sure they can find the best one.
- TODO: a/b tests improving metrics 

**What you’ll do:**
- Be an impactful contributor to the team to deliver maximal business value by planning, designing, and building elegant solutions, and any other applicable activities not limited to tech only.
- Collaborate with fellow software engineers, product manager, designer, UX writer and data analyst.
- Launch product and technical A/B tests to improve user experience on the website.
- Deliver testable, maintainable and high-quality code and take responsibility for the components that you develop.
- Design an API along with fellow back-end engineers.

**What we are looking for:**
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- At least 3 years of experience working as a front-end engineer.
- Expertise in JavaScript & React ecosystems.
- Experience with TypeScript, Next.js, Node.js, GraphQL is a plus.
- Experience with back-end development using Python and Django is a plus.
- A customer-centric, empathetic mindset focused on improving user experience.
- An ability to focus on what counts, creating simple solutions to deliver fast results.
- A passion for learning and desire for self-improvement.
- Exceptional soft skills, easy-going mindset, tolerance to risks
- High level of self-organization, ownership, responsibility.
- Minimum B2 English level.

**What we offer:**
- An opportunity for personal and professional growth, supported by high functioning teams, stellar investors and the exciting challenges that come with joining a company at the start of its growth trajectory.
- Easy-to-reach location, brand new office in Kooperative.
- An environment free of bureaucracy and corporate constraints; a culture where your opinion is highly valued and appreciated.
- An open, collaborative, dynamic and international culture.
- A monthly allowance for self-development on Preply.com.
- A competitive financial package, with generous leave allowance and health insurance.

Few more insights on what we do:
Our Engineering Blog: medium.com/preply-engineering
We’re using modern stack, you can check it here: tech-radar.preply.com