Frontend Engineer

**About Andela**: Andela exists to connect brilliance and opportunity. Since 2014, we have been dedicated to breaking down global barriers and accelerating the future of work for both technologists and organizations around the world. For technologists, Andela offers competitive long term career opportunities with leading organizations, access to a global community of professionals, and education opportunities with leading technology providers. For companies, Andela provides access to a global network of fully integrated team members that unlock their business' innovation and growth potential. We are excited to continue building our remote first team with incredible people like you **About the role** We are looking for an experienced Frontend Engineer to join our product teams and drive great ideas and design into the web experience. You'll be working together with product experts, UX/Visual designers, managers, VPs, in order to create the best product. There's plenty of space for innovation and different approaches such as PoC, AB-testing, etc. Our several frontend apps are based on ReactJS and shared components, with continuous improvement and time to market mindset, we're always seeking for the next step. Efficiency and performance are key. You'll have the opportunity to meet Machine Learning, Event-Driven, Big Data, and a complex integration system. We have several cross-teams that coordinate best practices for each specialty to ensure cohesion across the system. As we're all remotely located, work time is flexible and we adapt to multiple time zones around the globe, as long as communication flows. We promote common spaces and activities to get team members closer to each other. **Responsibilities**: - Develop features and improvements to Andela products in a secure, well-tested, and performant way. - Collaborate with Engineering Managers, Other Engineers, DevOps professionals, Product Managers, Designers, to solve common goals and maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, incremental context. - Conduct Code Review within our Code Review Guidelines and ensure your colleagues' contributions receive a swift response. - Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity. - Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions - Translate requirements into Conceptual Designs and Technical Designs **Requirements**: - Excellent communication skills - Git advanced knowledge - Experience in ReactJS (Typescript), HTML5, CSS3 - Experience with database modeling (ERD/ERM) - Experience consuming different API protocols - Experience with Integration tests and debugging - Knowledgeable about Software Design Principles, e.g.: Abstraction, Encapsulation, Decomposition, Generalization, Coupling and Cohesion, Separation of Concerns - Understanding of server-side state vs. client-side state management **Preferred**: - Experience with Redux, Material-ui and TailwindCSS - Experience with e2e testing - Requirements refinement - DDD, OOP, Design patterns - Clean Code - Performance tests and improvements LI-REMOTE LI-BW **Benefits**: - Fully Remote work culture - we hire globally and all of our roles are fully remote - Bring your own device stipend - buy your own laptop with funds from Andela - Quarterly work from home stipends - Flexible working hours - Equity (as a part of compensation package) - Healthcare, 401k / pension (US only) - Andela Affinity Groups - Growth & development paths - Generous Paid Time Off, Parental Leave, Compassionate Leave - And more to come We're on a journey to reimagine global benefits at Andela At Andela, we outcompete through diversity. We know that our strengths lie in the multiplicity of talents, perspectives, backgrounds & orientations resident in our community and we take pride in that. Andela is committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal employment opportunities and prohibits discriminatory practices. Andela provides equal employment opportunities and workplace to all employees and applicants without regard to factors including but not limited to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy (including breastfeeding), genetic information, HIV/AIDS or any other medical status, family or parental status, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. This commitment applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Our policies expressly prohibit any form of harassment and/or discrimination as stated above. Andela is home for all, come as you are.