job description - Javascript Developer
?Our client is a financial technology company based in the US, envisioned as the One-Stop-Shop for Consumer Finance globally. They are also an online financial education platform, which has steadfastly embarked on a mission to spread financial literacy globally.
?Key Responsibilities
?? Work with stakeholders to add definitions to project requirements
?? Assess the scope and build recommendations for Minimum Viable Product
?? Work with engineering and project managers to define project timelines
?? Analyze requirements, create and document component/system designs
?? Implement features and functionality with clean and maintainable code
?? Take pride in software quality through rigorous functional testing and writing automated unit tests
?? Ensure appropriate metrics, monitoring, and logging are in place, in short responsible for taking requirements to deployment
?? Participate in on-call rotations, bug fixing, and ongoing tuning and improvement
?Key Requirements
?? You have around 4 - 6 years of work experience, preferably in product development
?? You are a problem solver and use programming language or frameworks as tools
?? You have a good grasp of computer science fundamentals
?? You are Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript/Typescript, and jQuery and in any one of modern framework/libraries like React Vue, or Angular
?? You like learning new technologies and look for feedback to improve yourself
?? You are not afraid of going outside your comfort zone
?? You truly believe that testing your code is your responsibility
?? You understand what it takes to write good quality production-ready code
?Prior experience building and managing consumer-facing web/mobile applications.
?? You know what it takes to build reusable code for future use and optimize web pages for maximum speed and scalability
?? You have worked with at least one modern Javascript framework like React/Redux, Vue, Angular or Next.js
?? Design - Ensuring user experience determines design choices, develop features to enhance the user experience
?? Performance - You do know that processing millions of transactions has a cost and you know your way around projecting the cost of being functionally complete and performance bottlenecks.
?? Impact - You care about making a difference. And it shows in your work, in your approach. Tell us all about it, we love people that care deeply about something.
?? A passion for building world-class software, combined with a vision to think big. Like really big.
?? Contribute to Open Source - You have a Github/Bitbucket profile and have something we can talk about when we chat.
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