The Gig.

As a Frontend Developer, you will be working with the VP of Product and a team of developers to develop products with rich user experience and interface. You will be responsible for creating a unique and elegant interaction between users and our applications across all platforms. A successful Frontend Developer must have demonstrable experience in translating business and user requirements into elegant and reusable elements that will delight our users.

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Responsibilities:

- Build high quality, performant, scalable and maintainable front-end applications

- Regularly collaborate with designers, developers, and VP of Product in order to avail interactive and scalable front-end applications. Then further collaborate with the UX designers for the purpose of designing and implementing application experience

- Work closely with back-end developers in building features and efficiencies for the realization of the anticipated end product

- Oversee the development of the company’s applications and will be in charge of the latest processes and technology in order to build scalable, distributed, and fault-tolerant front-end applications.

- Provide technical leadership and documentation to senior engineering leadership and key stakeholders, continuously informing them on progress and important details of projects at key phases of application development.

- Participate in the daily scrum and sprint planning.

- Analyze and ensure the technical feasibility of proposed application designs.

- Mentor and coach others, providing technical guidance and helping build an environment of knowledge-sharing and encouraged feedback

- Comfortable leading technical design discussions and facilitating technical decision making.

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Who You Are.

You are an exceptionally talented software developer with the ability and desire to work on challenging projects that require you to constantly master new skills and technologies.

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Skills:

- 4+ years experience in hand-coded, standards-compliant HTML5, CSS and JS

- 3+ years of production experience with modern client-side web frameworks such as React, AngularJS with Typescript

- Deep knowledge of programming best practices, software design patterns and industry standards like SOLID principles

- Ability to create responsive UI components for high-performance and scalability

- Good understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as SASS/LESS

- Experience with backend data / API integration using JSON and RESTful web services

- Hands-on experience building websites using responsive design

- Experience with Node workflow/build systems (webpack, npm, etc...), and a working knowledge of REST and JSON

- Good knowledge of front end unit testing frameworks and experience with their implementation

- Knowledge of the Agile methodology including sprints, SCRUMS and test-driven development

- You are curious by nature and not afraid to ask “why”. You don’t stop digging till you find out why your code worked (or didn’t work)

- You have the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies through training, self-advancement, and collaboration with peers

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Bonus Points:

- Start-up experience

- Backend development using Node.js

- Experience with databases including MongoDB, PostgreSQL etc.

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Why Railz?

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We work hard, and we have fun. Success is what motivates us everyday to be the best and keep winning in the market. We offer a variety of perks to ensure our team can always work hard and play hard:

- Unlimited paid time off. Enough said.

- Health Spending Accounts

- Flexible work schedule

- Competitive salary, benefits and equity incentives for everyone!

- Hackathon events. For all who love to design and build.

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Please note: work remote policy in place temporarily due to COVID.

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