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Senior JavaScript Engineer

ShopKeep

About Us

Born out of frustration with the traditional cash register business, ShopKeep was designed by a retailer with a noble aim: to rescue independent business owners from the nightmare of archaic point of sale systems, and replace them with something beautiful, simple, and affordable. It turned out that by doing this, we were giving our fellow merchants a fighting chance against the big guys.

Today, our mission is simple: empower independent business owners to dream big and to fight smart. We’re doing this through our cloud-based architecture, amazing customer care, and intuitive software that delivers the data small business owners need to run smarter businesses.

At ShopKeep, we’ve been successful because of our awesome team that believes small businesses make up the heart of our communities.

 

About This Role

ShopKeep is seeking a Senior JavaScript Engineer to join our growing engineering team in Belfast. We’re looking for someone with strong development experience, with passion for emerging technologies and helping others grow, and who might even have spent some time behind a register.

You will be contributing to our BackOffice web application, which enables our merchants to manage their business operations from anywhere. You’ll be using React and Flux architecture, built with a modern JavaScript toolchain, which we deploy multiple times a day. With ShopKeep’s BackOffice, business owners manage everything from inventory management to accessing customized reporting specific to their business, so this is a vital component to the ShopKeep product.

 

What You Will Do

  • You’ll lead development of new features for our BackOffice web application
  • You’ll lead architecture discussion for new features and make decisions on how they’re developed
  • You’ll make use of microservice APIs to power the front-end, as well as build on these to provide additional functionality
  • You’ll identify new technologies and techniques that could improve the product and development processes
  • You’ll lead code reviews, contribute to team learning and mentor junior members of the team

 

Requirements

Essential             

  • 3+ years in software development
  • 2+ years developing JavaScript with modern development tooling, including Webpack, Babel etc
  • A deep understanding of front-end technologies, including JavaScript, HTML and CSS
  • Experience building and scaling JavaScript applications using external APIs
  • Experience managing and mentoring junior engineers
  • Strong commitment to testing and TDD practices
  • Desire to learn new skills and share knowledge with others
  • Comfortable with software development tools including using command-line, source control (Git etc.) and project tracking

Desirable

  • Experience working in an Agile environment
  • Experience with React (and even React Native) and state management with Flux architecture
  • Experience with optimising front-end build tooling, bundle splitting, etc.
  • Expertise in web application performance and security
  • Good feel for UX and building UI
  • Experience using CSS preprocessors (SASS, Less, etc.)
  • Experience with developing server-side APIs (use of Python or Ruby is a bonus)
  • Contributions to the coding community

 

Benefits

We provide the essentials...

  • Health Insurance with additional Dental and Vision Benefits 
  • Life and Income Protection Insurance 
  • Generous holidays
  • Pension Scheme 

...and the fun-damentals:

  • Catered Meals
  • Happy Hours
  • Beer Fridge
  • Pool Table
  • Stocked Snack Shelf
  • Engineering Conferences

ShopKeep is an Equal Opportunity Employer    

We are an Equal Opportunities Employer. We do not discriminate on grounds of religious belief or political opinion. Furthermore, we don't discriminate based on gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, nationality, or any other individual characteristics. We practice equality of opportunity in employment and select the best person for the job. 

To demonstrate our commitment to equality of opportunity in employment we need to monitor the community background of our applicants and employees, as required by the Fair Employment and Treatment (NI) Order 1998. You are not obliged to answer the questions on this form and you will not suffer any penalty if you choose not to do so. Any information that you provide will remain confidential and will only be used for monitoring and reporting purposes.

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