Position: Senior Front-End Application Engineer (React/Redux)
Company: RocketMe
Category: JavaScript
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2020-12-01T00:00:00+02:00

**General:**
We are looking for Senior Frontend Engineers to help us build an awesome new product/service for the consumer insurance market in the US.
We build our app using a flexible stack of frontend and backend technologies including Rails, Node.JS, React, MySQL, Redis and Linux. Expertise in all these areas is a huge plus, but working experience with other proven web technologies and relational / NoSQL databases is a fine alternative.
We embrace lean startup, continuous integration and agile development concepts.
We are looking for people who understand the need to build lightweight, loosely coupled microservices supporting well-defined objectives. We are open to choosing the best new and exciting tools to get the job done and having fun at the same time.
We are an open, diverse and collaborative team working across Silicon Valley, Germany, Slovenia and Poland.

**Kinds of things you would do during a typical week if you were to join us:**
- Build a new frontend feature, unit test it, deploy to staging and release to production,
- Collaborate with other team members to design, review or comment on a technical proposal,
- Propose a new architectural concept and solve a particular technical or functional challenge,
- Fix a bug and deliver a hotfix update to production,
- Whiteboard a new control flow and design required components and technical features,
- Design an API call supporting a new integration requirement,
- Provide support to operations staff in troubleshooting production issues,
- Contribute to our ever-growing internal tools used to manage the customer workflow.

**What we consider critical for this position:**
- enthusiastic and open-minded approach to building new features and fixing things when they break,
- good English communication skills allowing you to explain, discuss and describe complex technical concepts both to technical and non-technical team members across different locations,
- 3+ years of experience building web app front ends professionally (using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery and modern frontend concepts and frameworks, React in particular), for which you can provide references,
- ability to produce pixel-perfect and fully responsive web frontends,
- thorough understanding of fundamental technologies of the web (HTTP, API design),
- self-guidance when solving technical difficulties and building new features,
- attention to details and a strong habit of writing clear, testable and maintainable code,

**Nice to have:**
- experience with other functional or imperative languages such as Ruby, Python, Java or Go - with and without web frameworks,
- ability to lead architecture discussions and help make technical decisions,
- working knowledge of web security concepts and ways of preventing security problems,
- strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems and integration patterns.

**Our offer includes:**
- inspiring startup culture with a focus on delivering awesome features for our customers,
- option to choose and learn new, exciting technologies and frameworks,
- flexible working hours and locations,
- competitive salary,
- option to travel and work with the team in San Francisco every couple of months.

**P. S.:** Part of our team is located in Poland (Lodz), so if you are interested to work in Poland - feel free to msg us, we will think about **relocation support** for you! 

Join us, a lot of challenges are coming!