REF: #1014
SUSPENDED
JAVASCRIPT / TYPESCRIPT ENGINEER (REACT) - LISBON, PORTUGAL.
SUSPENDED The JavaScript/TypeScript Engineer will report to the Scala/JavaScript Department Lead and will take an integral part in building a cross-platform web application used by hundreds of thousands of users world-wide on iOS, Android, and desktop platforms. The company's technology stack is modern and based on TypeScript, React, Babylon.js, and Webpack.
Main Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, debug and support code responsible for implementing and testing new and existing games and related platform functionality.
- Be responsible for product performance, including load on network, memory, and processing units.
- Create and maintain system and unit documentation.
- Deliver code of the highest quality following best practices in software development, attention to detail, test coverage and system testing on a timely basis.
- Follow and improve the coding guidelines set in the company.
- Translate business requirements into technical and functional designs.
- Work closely as part of the Development Team to deliver winning products.
- Replace colleagues during their vacations, sick leaves, and other absences.
- Perform and participate in code reviews and submit code to code reviews, address code review comments with appropriate diligence.
- Diagnose and resolve systems problems with care and diligence.
- Perform other development tasks or other duties, as requested by the manager.
- Passion for this profession, in particular front-end development, and improving yourself technically.
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in the IT industry as server-side developer in low latency, high-load distributed projects.
- Proven experience in delivering production software using JavaScript or Typescript.
- Highly proficient in spoken and written English.
- Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Computer Science, or equivalent; long-term work experience in the Information Technology sector.
- Solid knowledge and minimum of 4 years’ experience with HTML/CSS/JavaScript (HTML5 and CSS3).
- Excellent communication skills and a pragmatic approach to problem solving.
- Solid knowledge of TypeScript and ES Next.
- Experience in other strongly typed programming languages.
- Interest in contemporary programming trends such as functional and reactive programming, CSS prepro cessing, alternative JavaScript languages, web components, touch user experiences, and responsive de sign.
- Experience with React, Redux, Lodash, RxJS, Babylon.js.
- Knowledge of modular CSS by using CSS-modules and post-CSS.
- Experience with testing and specifications libraries like Jest, Enzyme, Puppeteer/Playwright, WebDriverIO, Cucumber, Mocha.
- Knowledge of JavaScript ecosystem tools, such as webpack, npm, yarn.
- Passion towards performance profiling and optimization, using GPU acceleration and maintaining 240 FPS for visually rich applications.
- Proven experience of applying Java and Java ecosystem libraries such as Spring in daily work or compara ble open-source contributions.
- Knowledge of JVM fundamentals.
- Experience working with Relational Databases.
- Experience working with communication protocols such as HTTP and Web Sockets.
- Knowledge of relevant CI/CD, compiler and build tools and pipelines.
- Knowledge and experience of using version control systems such as Git.
- Ability to work in a fast-moving, high pressure environment while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
- Ability to be able to work on features independently as well as being a part of a distributed or collocated Agile team.
This position is an excellent opportunity to join the fast growing the team in Lisbon.
We offer:
- Entrepreneur culture of the company, which allows you to try new approaches and technologies all the time;
- Recognition from the business which translates to very competitive salaries and a supportive attitude;
- Developing games featuring live video serving customers around the world;
- A healthy mix of startup-like culture of the company, which enables us to try new approaches and technologies and remain on the edge of technological development and enterprise, with stability and supporting functions to help you focus on your job;
- Modern and developer-friendly delivery processes, including Agile (Scrum / Kanban), JIRA issue tracking, Confluence wiki, GitLab source control, Jenkins continuous integration and delivery, modern hardware and software for development (an IDE of your choice);
- Being a part of an international team in a successful, publicly traded company;
- Health insurance, contemporary office environment, tech conference attendance, training, hackathons and other benefits and perks.