UX Frontend Software Engineer

Job ID 6673

Why Ness

We know that people are our greatest asset. Our staff's professionalism, innovation, teamwork, and dedication to excellence have helped us become one of the world's leading technology companies. It is these qualities that are vital to our continued success. As a Ness employee, you will be working on products and platforms for some of the most innovative software companies in the world.

You'll gain knowledge by working alongside other highly skilled professionals that will help accelerate your career progression.

You'll also benefit from an array of advantages like access to trainings and certifications, bonuses, and aids, socializing activities and attractive compensation.

Requirements and responsibilities

We are seeking a passionate UX Frontend Software Engineer  with expertise in modern React and UX. As a well-rounded software engineer, you should appreciate diversity in your daily tasks and embrace challenges outside your comfort zone. In addition to possessing a well-rounded set of technical skills, you should bring a collaborative spirit, willing to share your knowledge/experience with the team and eager to learn from others.

What you'll do

A typical day in the life of a senior software engineer may include the following activities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define interface layout and usability goals.
• Ensure effective communication and coordination among team members, stakeholders, and clients.
• Design and implement the user experience (UX) strategies to enhance product usability and customer satisfaction.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest UX trends and best practices to continuously improve the user experience.
• Assisting in the design and definition of technical specifications of a new software feature with the product team.
• Writing core platform code for a new feature and unit tests for functionality.
• Refactoring and improving existing code for performance and simplicity. For example, breaking a large function into smaller, more maintainable, and easily tested logical units.
• Researching additional ideas to improve the product/platform overall and sharing them with the team.
• Interacting with customers and/or sales on a software bug, quickly resolving it, and coordinating across the team to push a fix.
• Collaborating with backend engineers and discussing quirks in network protocols and network interconnection, translating rapid API and UI changes.
• Reviewing merge requests from other developers and providing thoughtful feedback where appropriate.
• Taking ownership of issues through the release process and partnering with QA to resolve any bugs found in testing, ensuring timely code deployments.
• Developing new features in React.
• Frontend Development: Lead the development of scalable and high-performance frontend solutions using React and other technologies as needed.
• Performance Optimization: Optimize the performance of React applications, including lazy loading and minimizing render cycles.
• State Management: Expertise with state management libraries like Redux or Context API. Understanding of how to manage complex application state.
• Component-Based Architecture: Ability to design and implement modular, reusable, and maintainable components.
• Code Quality and Performance: Ensure code quality through best practices, code reviews, and performance optimization.
• Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation for backend systems and integration processes.
• Problem Solving: Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, ensuring the stability of backend systems.
• Collaboration: Work closely with customers, frontend developers, QA engineers, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality software solutions.

What you'll bring

The ideal candidate will possess solid software development skills and instincts for usability and creating beautiful, functional web applications. You are likely a full-stack developer who naturally gravitates toward front-end work. You can maintain a balance of building new, exciting features in a modern framework while also addressing issues that arise from the legacy side of the codebase. 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent work experience;
• 3+ years of experience working in production engineering teams;
• In-depth knowledge of React and its core principles. This includes understanding of components, state and props, lifecycle methods, hooks, and virtual DOM;
• Experience in applying UX principles to React user interfaces;
• Experience writing code that interacts asynchronously with APIs with complex logic flows;
• Comfortable using Git in a team environment (i.e. pull-requests, branch management, rebasing);
• Experience working in an environment leveraging remote communication collaboration tools like Slack, Zoom, etc.;

Other preferred skills

• Cloud experience with HTTP APIs;
• Use of event-driven tools such as Kafka;
• REST API platforms such as Postman;
• SQL / NoSQL experience is a plus.

Not checking every single requirement?

If this role sounds good to you, even if you don't meet every single bullet point in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. For most of the candidates that applied, we found a role that was a very good fit with their skills.

Let's meet and you may just be the right candidate for one of our roles.

At Ness Digital Engineering we are willing to build a work culture that is based on diversification, inclusion, and authenticity.