Location: Remote (Latin America e.g; Brazil/Argentina)
Department: Engineering
Hours: Fulltime (EST timezone)
Employment: Contract B2B
About YLD:
Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward. Our purpose is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. Our success is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. Our company is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract inspire develop and retain them. YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy; we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London Lisbon Porto.
About the role:
As a Senior Frontend Engineer youll be part of a client team building innovative products. We expect you to be curious passionate driven and enthusiastic. Youll be proficient at problemsolving and crafting scalable resilient and faulttolerant architectures. Youll be an effective communicator and a team player. You and your team will move in a fastpaced engineering environment achieving outstanding results and delivering exciting projects.
Tasks
About you:
A YLD Software Engineering Consultant is a highly skilled developer who exemplifies the highest standard in software engineering and enjoys sharing their knowledge and experience with others.
Youll have the opportunity to build and deliver software within some interesting projects in terms of the product and methodology. We work in an Agile environment (Scrum) with a testfirst mindset (actually writing code without tests should be unthinkable). We are also big advocates of pair programming and nothing is released until we have a code review.
You have a real passion for problemsolving and are an active learner who gets excited by working collaboratively with those around you.
Your daytoday responsibilities will look like this:
- Crafting excellent products! As a Frontend Engineer you will be building new features that meet the needs of our clients customers as well as improving their Digital Platform;
- Continuously delivering changes to products as our client is moving to a full CI/CD model;
- Working closely with your team regularly collaborating on engineering initiatives to continually push yourselves to be better;
- Participating in regular show and tells promoting your work to both your department and the wider company;
- Joining our clients internal events including meeting external speakers going to quiz nights etc.
Requirements
Youll have the following skills and experience:
- Proven commercial experience of working with CSS HTML as well as modern frontend frameworks (e.g. React);
- Deep understanding of CSS fundamentals including the box model specificity and layout techniques (e.g. flexbox grid);
- Strong proficiency in writing modular and maintainable CSS using methodologies like BEM or OOCSS;
- Ability to create responsive and adaptive designs with media queries and mobilefirst design principles;
- Understanding of crossbrowser compatibility issues and ways to address them with CSS;
- Experience in browser developer tools for CSS debugging and performance optimization;
- Experienced in JavaScript including concepts like asynchronous programming closures and ES6;
- Strong understanding of semantic HTML and the ability to leverage it for building accessible and SEOfriendly web structures.
- Deep knowledge of accessibility standards and practices with a history of implementing accessible web applications;
- Experience in distributed version control systems (e.g. Git);
- A strong focus on continuous integration and delivery;
- Strong focus in TDD;
- Familiarity with performance monitoring tools;
- Ability to collaborate with design teams to implement pixelperfect UI components from design specifications.
- Able to effectively advocate for accessibility best practices and guide design and development processes;
- You can keep a cool head when debugging production issues.
Youll be:
- Selfmotivated proactive and always looking for ways to improve and develop yourself
- A good communicator both in writing and verbally. Youll be able to explain technical ideas and concepts in businessfriendly language
- Detail oriented
- Problemsolving skills that balance innovation with pragmatic technology choices to solve business needs
- Used to working in a teamoriented collaborative environment
- Analytical and problemsolving oriented
- A genuine believer in diversity and fairness
- Available to work a flexible oncall rota responding to and resolving critical incidents
Benefits
What youll get in return:
- The chance to work with a forwardthinking ethical and fun group of people and to develop and grow your skills in a fastmoving business
Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:
- 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
- Technical Interview with our Senior Developers (1h30)
- Discussion with our Client Partner (30 mins)
We live and breathe our values and know you will too:
- Growing every day
- Including everyone
- Relationships built on honesty and ethics
- Inspiring solutions
- Winning together
Were an equalopportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We dont discriminate based on race religion colour national origin gender sexual orientation pregnancy or maternity age marital status or disability status. Likewise we also offer a remotefirst working environment meaning that flexible working and worklife balance come as standard for all employees.