Senior Frontend Developer

BoostIT HUB is a Romanian-based IT&C company with a vast experience in working with worldwide clients and projects in diverse industries. We focus on delivering projects fast, secure and on demand. Our organization is part of an international group of companies with a similar business mindset / etiquette: team, excellence, trustworthiness, accountability, motivation and continuous learning. This gives us a competitive advantage in terms of expertise, skills, experience and market standards, by broadening our problem-solving spectrum for our clients.

As a Senior Frontend Developer you’ll mainly focus on desktop, mobile and web activity on client-side. Creating quality UI and improving UX, slicing components from Photoshop or Sketch, reproducing wireframes by code and implementing W3C valid HTML, building upon MVVM frameworks, maintaining code; these are common tasks you will deal with on a daily basis. You will work with project managers, business analyst, solution architects, graphic designers, backend developers and programmers.

Requirements

⦁ Minimum four years of experience in the IT industry with frontend technologies or minimum seven years on the field, either as a freelancer or as personal hobbies;
⦁ Attention to details;
⦁ Problem-solving skills and ability to adapt to change;
⦁ Mobile or web development industry experience is preferred (as a background);
⦁ Master standard markup languages for web;
⦁ Solid knowledge of the HTTP protocol;
⦁ Solid knowledge of HTML and CSS;
⦁ Solid knowledge of JavaScript and ECMAScript versions;
⦁ Solid knowledge of dynamic weak programming;
⦁ Solid knowledge of version control systems such as Git, Mercurial or SVN;
⦁ Solid knowledge of UI manipulation techniques;
⦁ Solid knowledge of cross-platform UI frameworks and integration testing suites;
⦁ Solid knowledge of acceptance testing techniques and frameworks;
⦁ Good knowledge of Object-Oriented programming;
⦁ Good knowledge of the WebSocket protocol;
⦁ Good knowledge of web services such as REST APIs;
⦁ Good understanding of different platform UI/UX (e.g. web, mobile, desktop);
⦁ Knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL;
⦁ Knowledge of current trends in terms of frameworks and design trends;
⦁ Good communication skills;
⦁ Continuous hunger for knowledge.

Nice to have and other notes

⦁ Mobile-first web development mindset is appreciated;
⦁ Knowledge of other programming languages is HIGHLY appreciated;
⦁ Knowledge of UX on various operating systems is HIGHLY appreciated;
⦁ Experience with popular CSS and JS frameworks, including, but not limited to, Bootstrap, Foundation, UIKit, Semantic UI; Ember.js, Angular, React, Polymer, ExtJS, RxJS.

Responsibilities

⦁ Read the project’s specification and understand the project’s scope;
⦁ Collaborate with the business analyst or the project manager and write a project’s specification;
⦁ Understand the existing implementation of the application (if any);
⦁ Understand the goal and mission of the project and collaborate with the project manager and the CTO for best solutions;
⦁ Recognize technical limits of a potential implementation and failure scenarios;
⦁ Recognize potential security flaws in the existing software, before the final delivery, as well as in any third-party software used to help the development process;
⦁ Recognize poor designed UX and collaborate with the UI/UX specialist or graphic designer, business analyst and CTO for improvements;
⦁ Develop, maintain and improve frontend applications in web stack technologies;
⦁ Propose, implement and further develop solutions;
⦁ Design software with good UX in mind;
⦁ Optimize your own code;
⦁ DRY, KISS and Agile;
⦁ Autonomous and resourceful;
⦁ Mentor and lead other developers to achieve higher performance and better results;
⦁ Responsible team player with a positive mental attitude;
⦁ Collaborate with other departments.

Benefits

Work on cool projects;
Work with a friendly team in a relaxed environment;
Competitive sign-up salary package;
Participate at team events (team-buildings, hang-outs, Christmas Party, etc), training and conferences;
Flexible working hours;
Open offices in: Bucharest, Cluj, Constanta, Brasov, Pitesti – you can work from any BoostIT Office;
Other benefits: private health card; meal tickets; 7card.