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Frontend Engineer (Remote)
JS
WATTx

Frontend Engineer (Remote)

WATTx
Berlin
Type of work
Undetermined
Experience
Senior
Employment Type
Permanent
Operating mode
Remote

Tech stack

    ReactJS
    master
    Redux.js
    master

Job description

SENIOR FRONTEND ENGINEER AT WATTx (Remote)
(Currently, this position is open only for applicants living in Europe as we might
need them to commute to our office located in Berlin from time to time)

Are you a self-starter who ’s always eager to take on new challenges? Do you have
a good taste of design and can spot a bad one from a mile away?
At WATTx, we are rolling out the concept of remote work and looking for a Senior
Frontend Engineer to join our ranks. As one of the pioneers of the WATTx remote,
you will be a part of the Engineering Team, responsible for solving challenging
industrial problems and work closely with the core team based in Berlin.
Engineering culture at WATTx has been shaped around principles of user-centric
design and agile software development. We work in autonomous teams, value
pragmatism over idealism, simplicity over complexity and technological
agnosticism over fundamentalism, and are looking for people who share these
values.

Your responsibilities will include:
  • Technical design and implementation of the product
  • Ownership of tasks and independence in making technical decisions
  • Planning and specifying the product roadmap
  • Close collaboration with the founders, engineers, researchers, venture developers, data scientists and HR specialists
  • Regular and proactive communication with the team via Google Hangouts,Slack, email and other relevant tools

What you need to start your mission:
  • At least 4 years of working experience in building highly scalable web apps
  • Proficiency in JavaScript (React / Redux or similar) and building apps based on REST APIs
  • Expert knowledge of HTML/CSS
  • Experience in building Design Systems (Style guides)
  • Ability to solve the cross-browser compatibility and client-side performance issues
  • Writing clean and easily maintainable code covered by tests
  • Willingness for collaboration, code review and pair-programming with other software engineers
  • Good organizational skills, attention to detail, and strong QA skills
  • Experience working in remote positions without close supervision
  • Proactive communication and excellent teamwork skills
  • Self-motivation to deliver projects on agreed deadlines

Nice to have:
  • UX or Design experience
  • Familiarity with BEM, styled-components, JSS or similar
  • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
  • Experience with backend technologies: Golang, Python or Ruby
  • Interested in VR, AR, WebGL, IoT
What we offer:
  • Work on shaping real products at various stages of development
  • A competitive compensation package.
  • Ownership over your projects and an empowered working environment.
  • Continuous collaboration with the team in Berlin
  • Possibility to participate in Monthly hackathons

About Us:
WATTx is a new kind of company builder focused on creating deep technologies
in the industrial and consumer Internet of things. We are a full-stack team:
hardware and software engineers, data scientists, user experience researchers
and designers, venture developers, and strategists. We identify opportunity areas
and then conduct research and ideation sessions. Solutions that evolve from
these sessions are prototyped and vetted as pilots with clients, investors, and
potential partners.
We believe in giving back to the community and investing in talented people and
ambitious projects. We are looking into the needs of the tech community as a
whole and created Ampair to foster knowledge sharing collaboration, diversity
and inclusion in tech and Voltage to incubate early-stage teams.