Position: Senior FrontEnd Engineer
Company: X1 Group
Experience required: 3y
Category: JavaScript
English level: upper
Published: 2021-10-01T00:00:00+03:00

We are developing augmented-intelligence technology that helps individuals in the communication and policy sectors identify and connect relevant information in order to facilitate better decision-making. With the help of our technology, we enable clients to identify relevant opinion leaders and discussions, track specific legislation, and foresee potential impact on their industries and businesses.

You will be part of a small, friendly yet ambitious team of communications and public-policy experts who aim to utilize technology to push boundaries and establish a data-driven mindset in the communication and policy sectors.

**Your responsibilities will include:**
- Directly participating in all of our products’ feature development; you could be working on both the internal tools as well as the internet-facing web applications.
- Owning some features end to end; you may work both on frontend development (Framework TBD. Candidates are React or SvelteKit) and backend (TypeScript and Nodejs), with Nestjs or AWS Lambda “serverless” architecture.
- Working alongside our Product and Design team to discover and implement the best and most modern, state-of-the-art UX features with constant attention to detail and security-related side effects.
- Working alongside our Software Quality Engineers in order to build a robust automated testing infrastructure for our web applications.
- Continually elevating the quality of the team to the highest standards, experimenting with new and inspiring tech, performing security analysis, writing top-notch documentation, mentoring juniors as well as assisting with job interviews.

**The ideal candidate:**
- Has at least 5+ years’ experience in frontned web development with competence in writing major modern framework code (React, Vue, Angular etc..), as well as some experience writing “server” side JavaScript/TypeScript code; more experience (and fun) on one of the sides is of course expected.
- Is meticulous in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices.
- Believes that usability and accessibility are first-class citizens in modern software development, and can discern a good design from a bad one.
- Is very familiar with Git (github) and at least one of its workflows.
- Is a team player who is constantly available to provide helpful advice / insights to their teammates.
- Sees a leadership role (purely technical or managerial) in their medium-term future career path.
- Possesses excellent verbal and written communication in English.

**Nice-to-have’s:**
- Experience in the DevOps or SRE field.
- Knowledge in designing a database from scratch.
- Can maintain one or more FOSS projects.
- Familiarity with the AWS cloud infrastructure and Lambda development.

**What’s in it for you?**
- Flexible and family-friendly working hours.
- Remote-first workplace — we’re supporting remote team members with €500 bonus to build your home office.
- Benefits included: Health insurance with premium-level clinics, bookkeeping, - English courses, corporate events, 20 days of vacations and 10 days of sick leave, etc.
- Flat hierarchy with a high degree of autonomy and responsibility.
- Employee stock options.