UI Engineer - Angular

This is a remote position.

Responsibilities

• Developing new user-facing features using Angular
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
• Improve processes to make your team more effective
• Plan and execute long term strategies that benefit the team and the product
• Conduct code reviews, and make technical contributions to product architecture
• Get involved in solving bugs and delivering small features
• Understand engineering metrics and seek to improve them
• Develop rich, interactive data visualizations, including graphs, charts, and other dynamic features

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field with 3+ years in software engineering
• Strong understanding of core web and browser concepts (eg. how does JavaScript handle asynchronous code)
• In-depth experience with CSS, HTML5, and JavaScript
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Thorough understanding of Angular and its core principles
• Experience with D3.js
• Experience with standard design languages preferably Material Design
• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js) is a huge plus
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Web-pack, NPM, etc.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Work closely with backend teams and have a knack for root-causing performance issues, bench marking and optimization
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as GIT)
• Good understanding of RESTful APIs
• Understand basics of back-end development, synchronous/asynchronous APIs and I/O bottlenecks
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token