Senior UI/Front-End Developer Senior level Full-time Remote in Romania Do you want to use your coding skills to improve the lives of millions of people? Are you brave enough to let millions of UX designers use your code? Are you obsessive about your own professional development and continuous learning-through-doing? Then read on! The company is the biggest online design school globally. Founded in 2002, we have over 90,000 graduates and counting. We're market leaders in online design education because the world's leading experts create our content and because we're specialized in design. What's more, with over 1.5 million monthly visitors, we're at the forefront of providing premier design education to such organizations as IBM and SAP, as well as thousands of other companies. Our ever-growing community now needs a first-class back-end developer to help craft the ultimate user experience. This is where your longing for meaningfulness in your work and your hard-science coding skills merge: Every time your code is executed, you help improve the life of a human being. And not only that, those members will likely go on to design better products and services to the benefit of all humankind. This is a paid full-time position which is location independent. You will have regular video-based contact with your colleagues and get to meet them physically on team trips.
What You Will Be Doing:
You will join our team as our Senior UI/Front-End Developer and your main responsibilities will be to:
- Write reusable components using the Laravel Blade template engine, CSS, and presentational JavaScript.
- Help improve our Design System
- Maintain our PostCSS code base to keep and improve reusability and DX and deliver less CSS to the end-user.
- Improve CSS architecture and guidelines, make principal technical decisions in the UI area.
- Help us use animations more widely, e.g. with Lottie animations.
- Automate regression testing and front end code quality checks.
- Improve the accessibility and performance of our pages.
- Work with our design team to improve UX on different stages of the design process.
- Work on PWA for our course platform as a part of the front-end team (offline support, better mobile experience, etc.)Help yourself, and the whole team, get better and better. Or use our library of evergreen literature on back-end and front-end subjects to broaden your horizon.
About You:
You have at least 5 years of experience working as a Front-End Developer.
You prefer native web APIs and functionality over alluring new frameworks - and you know how and when to use them.
You regularly use WHATWG and W3C and you are intimately familiar with the latest web standards.
You can create your own intelligent, reusable CSS layout system.
You test across devices and browsers, and optimize for performance.
You write testable code.
You love to learn through doing. You're always ready to put in some hard work to expand your skills.
You speak and write acceptable English – not perfect English, just acceptable – since you will be working with people from Canada, England, Denmark, the US, Belarus and Brazil among others.
You are a team player and you don't bring your ego to work.
You are self-motivated and self-disciplined and thus work well in a flat hierarchy with lots of freedom.
You love to have creative freedom, make independent judgments and live up to the responsibility that comes with that freedom.
You love to create tangible results—every hour and every day.
Bonus Points:- If you have contributed to open source
- If you have a Master's Degree in Computer Science
- If you have PHP coding experience6 Essentials of Our Work Culture
- We love results, efficiency, perfectionism and focus. We believe this is achieved through:
Individual freedom and independent decision-making—with zero bureaucracy and office politics.
Openly sharing knowledge, so that our library of knowledge grows with each person in our team.
Taking great care of each other, celebrating each other's work and having fun.
Having a love for what we do. We're all passionate about our jobs, whether it's programming, marketing, design or any other specialism.
Concentration: awesome results are produced in a state of flow. That's why we value location-independent work without the distractions of a normal office.
Using our work culture as our guide when we choose who to hire.
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