Front-End Engineer

NOTICE: ONLINE RECRUITMENT PROCESS

LOCATION: KRAKÓW OR REMOTELY FROM POLAND / BARCELONA OR REMOTELY FROM SPAIN

 

By joining Front-End Infra team you will be working collaboratively with our product team engineers to understand their needs related to improving the quality and speed of front-end development on product teams. The team is then translate these needs into a forward-looking vision and direction for front-end development at Brainly including standards, conventions, and best-practices that are used company-wide.

This role will be responsible for helping us remove all PHP dependencies from the Brainly.com front end. This includes creating reusable React components using our automation tools, building out the new single page React application to replace the legacy PHP stack, and becoming a certified front end developer advocate. In addition, there will be the opportunity to help build new features and products using Brainly’s React framework. 

 

WHAT IS THE CHALLENGE WAITING FOR YOU?

• Create reusable react components that adhere to our framework standards
• Maintain react storybooks
• Expand test coverage and adhere to testing best practices
• Learn our React-based framework and automation tools
• Migrate the legacy PHP based application to React
• Use our automation tools to assist with refactoring
• Contribute to our growing list of internal tools (e.g. CLI https://medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english/create-a-scalable-cli-using-schematics-ad0d07c950cb)
• Help develop open source tools for the broader React community
• Share your knowledge with other Brainly engineers and the broader React community
• Become a certified Front-End developer advocate

 

SUCCESS FACTORS:

Level: Junior or Mid

We expect the person to have at least two years of professional experience as a Front-End engineer. In addition, we expect such person maturity and self-organization in terms of everyday work. Such a person after onboarding to our product should be able to start delivering features without guidance but of course in cooperation with peers and PO.

You are a great fit if You have: 

• Good knowledge of modern JavaScript (ESNext)
• Experience with agile software development using Jira and Confluence
• Solid git skills
• Experience in React
• Experience in testing with JavaScript frameworks
• Experience in Responsive Web Design
• Great knowledge of modern CSS methodology (i.e. CSS Modules, BEM)
• Knowledge of best practices in Website, JavasScript and Mobile performance and optimization topic
• Fluency in English

Nice to have:

• Experience with GraphQL
• Experience in CSS Grid Layout
• Experience in End-to-End testing
• Experience in Visual Regression testing
• Experience in Storybook
• Experience with gitflow or github flow
• Experience using CircleCI, TeamCity, Bitbucket or other automated build systems
• Experience building Angular applications using the Angular CLI
• Experience building vanilla web components using standards based APIs

Attributes

• Maturity
• Willingness to take ownership of developed solutions
• Self-organization
• Focus on quality
• High attention to detail
• Agile mindset

 

ADDITIONAL DETAILS:

• Salary: 7 500 - 13 000 PLN gross/ monthly, employment contract
• Some of our benefits (varies slightly depending on the location): 
  • Flexible working hours and the possibility to work remotely
  • Personal development budget 800$ per year +  unlimited time off policy for participation in conferences and workshops and access to an online learning platform with courses from Udemy, Harvard Manage Mentor and many others
  • Fully paid private health care packages for you and your family (dental care included) provided by Luxmed
  • Fully paid life insurance provided by Warta
  • Multisport Plus card
  • Access to the Mental health Helpline - providing virtual support of external psychologists, psychotherapists, and coaches
  • AskHenry services - personal concierge services to help you to settle your everyday matters (like Ikea shopping or shoemaker visit)
  • Possibility to join one of our Employee Resource Groups and initiatives (Inclusion Council, Ladies at Brainly, Brainly Cares)
  • If needed, additional budget for work remote work accessories

 

WHAT IS BRAINLY?

Brainly is the world's largest peer-to-peer learning community for students, parents and teachers. At brainly.com, and its group of websites around the world, students connect to both receive and offer help with homework problems and questions. The unique opportunity for students to freely ask questions and gain the confidence that comes from helping others and inspires students to learn in a collaborative community that receives more than 350 million users each month.

Based in Kraków, Poland, with its US headquarters in New York City, Brainly is currently available in 35 countries. The total funding from current investors, including Naspers, General Catalyst Partners, Point Nine Capital, Runa Capital and Learn Capital equals $150M. More information about Brainly is available on www.brainly.com.

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