Frontend Engineer

Here at Skedulo we’re on a mission to support the 2.7 billion people in the world—and the companies that employ them—who do not work at a desk every day. Our global teams are collaborative, ambitious, innovative, and passionate about helping our customers realize their fullest potential by enabling their mobile workforces. 

The Skedulo team is a tight-knit group of builders who are passionate about shaping our platform that is relied upon daily by thousands of users across the globe. We are looking for motivated, self-starters who share our values, challenge the status quo, and push the pace of innovation in order to accelerate growth. If you’re drawn to solving hard problems and want to help design software that will make a difference in people’s lives, Skedulo is for you. Visit our website to learn more about what Skedulo does and to learn more about our people and team.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Front-End Developer (Engineer) will be a key member of the Delivery team in the VN. Engineers display a solid understanding of core engineering concepts. They are focused on growing as an engineer, learning the team’s tools and current processes, as well as a strong background in Engineering best-practices like automated testing, source control, and agile planning.

They communicate well and are capable of delivering feedback to peers and their manager. When given a task with unclear requirements they know how to ask for clarification, and ensure that all assumptions are vetted before work starts to reduce the need for re-work. They understand how their work fits into the larger picture for their team, and use this to identify conflicting requirements to their team lead and project manager.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Day to Day

• Work on projects with high complexity, large or strategic projects.

• Writing and reviewing code from the sprint backlog in line with front-end team best practices

• Assisting in driving team sprint execution to ensure timelines are met without compromising on quality.

• Anticipates and communicates blockers or delays for their work (or their squads) before they require escalation.

Technical Duties:

• Consistently writes production-ready code that is easily testable, easily understood by other engineers, and accounts for edge cases and errors.
• Provides technical advice and weighs in on technical discussions / decisions that impact their team.
• Ensures their commitments are realistic, understands their priority and urgency, and delivers upon them accordingly.

Communication & Leadership Duties

• Communicate within your team in an effective, clear, concise manner in both written and verbal form on technical and nontechnical subjects.

• Helps their fellow team members overcome obstacles, resolve blockers, and complete work tasks.

• Mentors more junior teammates in an open, respectful, flexible, and empathetic manner.

• Resolving code-based defects discovering either through project work or through our technical support team.

• Contributing to continual improvement of coding standards and methods used by our technical development team.

• Contributing to technical documentation such as technical design and as-built documents.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION

• Must have at least 5+ years of commercial experience in Front-end web development

• Experienced in Front-end unit testing frameworks (ideally Mocha or Jest).

• Experienced in CSS Preprocessors (ideally Sass)

• Must have strong written and oral English language communication skills

DESIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

• Will have at least 3+ years’ experience developing web applications with ReactJS

• Ideally experienced with one or more of the following: Vuejs, AngularJs, NodeJs, and/or Redux

• Strong experience in modern front-end build tools (e.g. Git, Webpack, Yarn, Grunt, NPM).

• Familiar with RESTful API, GraphQL

• Knowledgeable in modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token.

• Beneficial to have prior experience working with offshore and distributed teams

• Exposure to Agile development methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban

• Prior experience with common cross functional tools in JIRA, Confluence, GitHub

• Understands the importance of contributing to the CI/CD pipeline and automation

BENEFITS

• Competitive Salary Package including 13th month bonus
• New Hire Stock Options
• Employee Referral Bonus Program
• 3 volunteer days per year
• 100% employer paid subscription to Modern Health (includes 6 coaching & 6 therapy session per year)
• A generous budget to spend on setting up your home office or WFH station
• 100% employer paid access to Udemy (Learning & Development)
• Paid Parental Leave for both carers (12 weeks)
• Hybrid Work Model (3 days in the office & 2 days work from home)
• Private Medical Benefits (PTI Health Insurance) for employee + family
• 100% employer paid annual health check
• 7 paid sick leave days per year
• 20 paid personal leave days per year
• 12 paid public holiday days per year
• Company & Team Offsite Events provided
• Our office offers open and creative workspaces with room to play, reflect, and relax
• Our team works hard but also plays hard; we will challenge your best table tennis and PS4 skills
• Kitchen stocked with snacks & drinks