Position: Lead Frontend Engineer
Company: Remotal
Experience required: 5y
Category: JavaScript
English level: fluent
Published: 2022-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

Location Mandate
Only candidates located in Europe are eligible to apply

The company was founded in 2011 and has successfully operated as an advertising agency, developing and using proprietary software to manage corporate client's campaigns. They are now adapting, refining and rolling out these tools as a SaaS platform. They currently have about 40 employees in total. Offices are in Dublin, the organization is remote-first, with team members all across Europe.

The Product:
Their Customers are e-merchants who want better returns on their advertising spend.
The platform allows Shopify users to manage their advertising campaigns efficiently across the Google and Facebook ads network, providing consolidated and harmonized reporting, intelligent suggestions and facilitated implementation of changes in campaign settings.
It is the only solution that offers a fluid experience managing campaigns on both of the dominant advertising networks.

The Spirit:
Company values revolve around friendliness, collaborative spirit, and dedication to make things happen. As a performance advertising agency they are accustomed to seeing every action they take translate into very concrete results almost immediately, which brings a healthy dose of pragmatism in the company culture.

The Tech Team:
The company currently employs 4 engineers, and is hiring 4 more.

The Stack:
• React, Redux, Mockito
• Java 11 / Spring Boot
• Microservice Architecture
• Rest
• PostgreSQL
• Docker, Kubernetes
• RabbitMQ

The JOB:This is a hands-on role for a senior front end engineer who has experience in leading engineering teams using React. We are looking for a problem solver who will address technical challenges, conducting brainstorming sessions with our engineers to build a world class Shopify Solution.
​● Lead Frontend Developer taking ownership for building our Shopify App
● Technical go-to person for frontend technical challenges
● Mentor & support to engineers for their technical development
● Delivery of new functionalities with React micro-frontends
● Engineering Coach who shares technical knowledge through pair programming
● Contributing to improving internal processes & team collaboration
● Creator of a culture of quality, development principles and innovation
● Strategic technical involvement in the hiring strategy and team setup
● Working closely with QA to ensure reliability, stability and security

Requirements
Required Hard Skills:
● 7+ years' experience as a Frontend developer
● 5+ years' expertise with React
● Expertise in JavaScript, Redux and Mockito
● Experience with paradigms like SOLID, micro-frontends, event-driven architecture, and modern tech stacks around Docker
● Experience building web frontend tooling and infrastructures at scale for internal product engineering teams – Ideally Shopify including Polaris
● Familiarity with Microservice Architecture
● Familiarity with CI/CD systems and workflows
● Background in frontend engineering, with exposure to some modern web build toolchains such as Webpack, esbuild, Babel, Jest, Enzyme.

Required Soft Skills:
● Confidence in leading a team of engineers in planning, estimation, and execution
● Experience building remote-first teams
● Fluent in English (written and spoken)

Benefits
Why you should join:
What makes this company special is that they are building a SaaS based on their own expertise as a very successful performance advertising agency. You will be working with very experienced engineers and advertising specialists to build a world-class solution. As a member of the core team you'll grow with the company and take on more responsibility over time.

Good to know:
22 days of paid vacation

Selection Process:
• Screening call with Remotal
• Technical interview with Remotal
• Fit interview with Client
• Technical Test
• In-depth tech Interview with Client