Frontend Developer

Solve problems instead of just implementing features. You’ll be working on a financial technology platform for DFS, a joint venture of Finealeap and DVAG, the largest independent financial advisory service in Germany, in a small, high-performance team.

 Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them in React.js. You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product are important.

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript (ES6/ES7), including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

• Proficiency with a popular modern front-end framework/library like React, Angular, Vue, Ember, Backbone

• Experience with RESTful APIs

• Experience with GraphQL APIs

• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token

• Understanding of React.js and its core principles

• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.

• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

• A knack for benchmarking and optimization

• Unit or automated testing using JEST or others

• Familiarity with code versioning tools (git)

• Developing new user-facing features using React.js

• Building reusable components

• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code

• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

• Participate in technical planning & requirements gathering phases including Design, code, test, troubleshoot, and document engineering software applications.
• Ensuring that technical software development process is followed on the project, familiar with industry best practices for software development.