The opportunity:
We are looking for a Frontend Engineer to join our Engineering team. This is an incredibly exciting opportunity where you’ll get to focus on building and improving our web and mobile applications for consumers and businesses. You will be designing and building applications with three core principles in mind: maintainability, performance, and security.
If you are excited about UI Frameworks like React or Vue.js, GraphQL, E2E Testing, Progressive Web Apps and emerging patterns such as JAMStack, Uphold is the place for you!
What you’ll be doing primarily:
- Building the most powerful and easy to use digital Wallet in the world.
- Delivering new features and enhancements to the platform across web and mobile.
- Working closely with the Backend Engineering team to integrate backend services.
- Collaborating with product managers, designers, engineers, and other project stakeholders throughout the software development life cycle (planning, design, implementation, deployment and support).
- Writing high quality code with performance and scalability in mind.
Required qualifications:
- Strong knowledge of frontend technologies and frameworks like React or Vue.js, React Native, Redux, GraphQL, Styled Components, and RESTful web services.
- Good understanding of the web platform, including DOM, CORS, browser data storage, script loading, request/response headers and others.
- Knowledge of multiple ECMAScript standards and modern JavaScript best practices.
- Proficiency in modern CSS, including Flexbox and/or CSS Grid.
- Knowledge of revision control systems.
- Basic knowledge of standard development pipelines, including build and other automation tools.
- Excellent communication skills and a team player with the ability to work in cross-functional teams, and with a great attitude.
- Cognisant of performance fundamentals such as understanding the difference between layout, painting and compositing.
- Strong focus on project execution and delivery.
- Fluent written and oral English skills.
Bonus if you have:
- Experience in developing multi-language applications.
- Fluency in cryptocurrencies or other digital assets as they are core to our business.
- Community talks, certifications, and/or blog posts on your interests and research.
- Open source project contributions of any kind, such as tools developed to solve specific problems you’ve had or fixing issues on existing projects.
Importantly, if you’re looking for a senior role with us, you will have achieved many of the things above while also providing mentorship to others, and have engaged in public speaking opportunities.
What we have to offer you:
- An amazing work environment in a company that continues to grow, driven by extraordinary and passionate people that keep up innovating and challenging more each day.
- An international team, in a cutting edge field, working on the most fascinating projects.
- Growth and career opportunities, and the chance to be proactive and creative.
- A flexible and enthusiastic work environment that offers you snacks, a lot of coffee, and other great benefits.
- Open and transparent culture - we get together on a weekly basis to share updates, strategic plans and engage with each other informally over food and drinks.
- Interesting events that keep you connected with the team and celebrate our success.
Be part of a great company that is revolutionizing the financial services. Apply now!
Please mention the word **STREAMLINED** and tag RNTQuMTY2LjE0Ni42NA== when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RNTQuMTY2LjE0Ni42NA==). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.
