UI Engineer - Angular

This is a remote position.

Responsibilities

• Developing new user-facing features using Angular
  

• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
  

• Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code
  

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

• Improve processes to make your team more effective
  

• Plan and execute long term strategies that benefit the team and the product 
  

• Conduct code reviews, and make technical contributions to product architecture
  

• Get involved in solving bugs and delivering small features
  

• Understand engineering metrics and seek to improve them
  

• Develop rich, interactive data visualizations, including graphs, charts, and other dynamic features
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field with 3+ years in software engineering
  

• Strong understanding of core web and browser concepts (eg. how does JavaScript handle asynchronous code)
  

• In-depth experience with CSS, HTML5, and JavaScript
  

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
  

• Thorough understanding of Angular and its core principles 
  

• Experience with D3.js
  

• Experience with standard design languages preferably Material Design
  

• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
  

• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js) is a huge plus
  

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

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

• Work closely with backend teams and have a knack for root-causing performance issues, bench marking and optimization
  

• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as GIT)
  

• Good understanding of RESTful APIs
  

• Understand basics of back-end development, synchronous/asynchronous APIs and I/O bottlenecks
  

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