Senior FrontEnd Engineer
Location: GB, WSM, London
Department: Engineering
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Internet
Function: Engineering
Salary range: 50000-70000
Company profile: Founded in 2010 by a team from Google’s London and New York offices, Qubit work with some of the biggest names in Online. Our engineers have built a brand new platform that combines a number of technologies – analytics, automation, personalisation and more – into a simple, easy-to-use product.We’re not the only ones excited about our brand new approach to solving the problems of modern e-Commerce. Wired magazine named Qubit as one of the top 5 hottest startups in London. We’ve raised $7.5 million in Series A funding from one of the UK’s biggest venture capitalists! Come and join the growing team as we embark on the most exciting chapter in Qubit’s history.Although we’ve now grown to more than 90 people, we’re keen on keeping our culture as relaxed and open as when there were only 5 of us. Our offices have table football, kitchen full of fruit and other snacks, never ending coffee supply, dinner service and lots of other startup perks. More importantly we’re a focused and determined team preparing to double in size during 2014!
Description: Qubit: Cutting Edge Big Data EngineeringWe are looking for outstanding JavaScript Engineers to join our growing Front End team. If you know almost everything there is to know about JavaScript, then we want to hear from you.As a member of our team, you’ll be working on: our user interface that helps many organizations build their personalizations via a WYSIWYG interface, core libraries that generate and collect data, and libraries that execute tens of billions personalizations on the largest e-commerce sites in US and the UK.You’ll need efficient performance in a multitude of different contexts, and be compatible with all sorts of web technologies. With our relentless focus on innovation, our Front End team are always investing in improving the efficiency of our code and workflows while continuously shipping product features.What You’ll Be DoingBuilding elegant, highly responsive Front End components that display terabytes of data in new and creative ways.Writing safe, stable and sandboxed code that can do complex things in foreign environments and developing ways to monitor and improve its speed, quality and effectiveness.Helping us to develop, test and deploy our data gathering tools that collect 1,000,000,000+ unique data points daily from some of the biggest sites on the internet.Designing RESTful interfaces in #URL_a58bd7bd48420a1f4774598bc5f1451bdcc79baee91a357c1d69e8aede501d73# to connect to our backend services and expose data to front end applications.Providing programming and development expertise across the entire Front End product cycle.
Requirements: What You’ll NeedBy submitting your application you understand that Qubit will store your data in accordance with local lawsA Computer Science or related degree from a top university.Exceptional experience in the conception and engineering of web applications.Outstanding skills with JavaScript and experience with some of the following libraries: Backbone, Ember, Angular, React, jQuery, Underscore, Lodash, Mout.Fluency in a modern JavaScript development workflow: grunt, gulp, Karma, Mocha, Bower, Browserify and the ability to work without libraries when speed and size minimisation is important!
Benefits: Plenty of perksAs well as the opportunity to solve complex problems in this exciting new era of big data, here’s what we offer:Realistic performance related bonusesGenerous equity options mean you’ll own a piece of the pieExcellent health and dental insurance packagesA relaxed approach to time off and enough holidays to see several corners of the worldFridge fully stocked with healthy snacks and the ultimate espresso machine for your java fixA competitive office where we play foosball, football, scrabble, go-karting… you name it, we’ll play itThank Qubit it’s Friday – we have lots of creative ways to let off steam at the end of the weekPlenty of opportunities for training and development
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