Front End Engineer
Opinary has one mission: We help people make up their mind. Globally, millions of people use our polling technology to share their opinion, engage in open dialogue, and understand complex debates - all with one simple click. And, by harnessing the latest advances in Machine Learning, NLP, and distributed systems design, our platform ensures that readers get the right question at the right time.
With over 80 million monthly users, we’re one of the fastest-growing startups in the media space. You’ve probably used our tools yourself on publishers like The Times, Spiegel Online, NBC, Huffington Post, or the Independent.
As a Front End Engineer (m/f/d), your technical chops will directly impact today’s debates in the most relevant media outlets.
Who we’re looking for
Sure, we need someone talented. But, most importantly, we are looking for someone who:
- Owns challenges. Who doesn’t back down or say “that’s not my job”.
- Is a great communicator and listener. Likes to collaborate across teams and understand why their project matters to everyone in the company.
- Embodies our values of care and respect. That means caring and respecting your colleagues as well as your own mental and physical health.
Your challenges
- You will be building extensible, testable, and readable code and services.
- You will develop features to enhance the user experience and collaborate with designers and Product Owners along the way.
- You will closely collaborate with other team members and actively participate in API design and usability testing.
- You will be developing, maintaining, and improving the existing vanilla JS, React, Redux codebases.
- You will create and maintain the CI/CD pipelines for all the frontend applications.
- You will be ensuring web design is optimized for mobile.
- You will be responsible for the speed, stability, and scalability of the applications you build.
Your profile
- You have 3+ years of experience as a Frontend engineer.
- You have a good understanding of asynchronous programming paradigms and request handling.
- You’ve worked on a large project and you’ve had the chance to run it on production.
- You have a good understanding of WEB caching, CDNs, and WEB/Browser APIs.
- You know how to test your code and you are thorough with the test cases.
- You can navigate and debug code that is not familiar to you.
- You have knowledge about responsive design and browser differences.
- You work with different technologies and frameworks and you are open to learning something new.
- You have worked closely with designers and you can anticipate the users’ needs.
- You’re proactive and curious: always eager to learn new things and happy to share your knowledge with others.
- You communicate clearly about your progress and you can anticipate your colleagues’ needs.
What we offer
- We have a diverse and open culture from different professional and personal backgrounds. Our agile team provides the space to directly influence and impact our product positively
- Growth and continuous learning: everyone at Opinary is encouraged to trust in experiments and personally grow - with a generous learning budget to help out
- We provide a flexible working environment. Choose your working hours, take unlimited work-from-home and holidays, and choose your preferred laptop
Sounds great? Apply with one click!