Position: Front-End Engineer

REMOTE OPPORTUNITY

Who we are:

Catalytic Data Science is a team of research scientists and technologists that felt there had to be a better way for the brightest minds in research to drive innovation. With the researcher's needs always at the forefront of our mission, we build digital workspace solutions specifically designed for life sciences companies. Our innovative, highly secure, cloud-based platform provides one point of access to all the resources, tools, and functionality needed to accelerate the pace of research and drive innovation, ultimately bringing products to market faster.

We are looking for a proactive, driven individual who is motivated by challenges to deliver highly available, secure, and scalable enterprise software. This position is a key member of our engineering team who will enable us to continuously deliver quality software. The ideal candidate would have experience designing and developing microservice-based enterprise software.

Our agile teams work closely to rapidly build and deploy products. We are seeking someone who can communicate clearly and who can balance business objectives with product quality. If you are a proven front-end engineer, looking for opportunities to further grow your skills, we definitely want to talk with you.

We offer nationally competitive salaries, a stock option plan, annual bonus plan, healthcare benefits, flexible vacation policy, relocation plan, continuous education, and the ability to design your own workstation.

Who you are:

• You have extensive knowledge in:
  • HTML5 &
  • JavaScript (ES5 – ES6).
  • JavaScript React library and Redux state container.
  • JavaScript design patterns, as Observer, Module, Prototype, Factory, among others.
  • Webpack, packages bundling, modular coding approach.

• You are flexible to work and adapt to different architecture schemas, code flavors, technologies and variety of development tools.
• You are passionate about delivering quality software and jobs to be done driven design.
• Knowledge or previous experience with GraphQL is a plus.

What you will do:

• Design and develop quality software
• Design and create prototypes and mockups
• Follow design and coding standards
• Do code reviews and care about code quality, while also iterating quickly
• Ensure maximum unit test coverage of code written
• Build robust, lasting, and scalable software
• Collaborate and work well with others

What you know:

• BS in computer science or related engineering, science or math discipline and 3+ years related work experience.
• Strong software development skills, including design, development, testing, deployment and support.
• Strong skills working on software build/release and in an Agile distributed software development team.
• Excellent communication (written and verbal), time management, flexibility, teamwork, interpersonal and team participation.
• Advance level programming with vanilla JavaScript (ES5 – ES6).
• Advanced level programming with React JavaScript library.
• Skilled in Object Oriented Programming and Functional Programming.
• Experienced with JavaScript frameworks, especially Redux/React. Knowledge in frameworks as Meteor, Angular and GraphQL is also a plus.
• Advanced level with HTML5.
• Advanced level with CSS3, including experience with responsive frameworks such as Reactstrap/Bootstrap 4 and modular SCSS.
• Skilled with SASS and SCSS.
• Prior experience building mobile apps with iOS and Android is a plus
• Intermediate understanding of unit test frameworks, task automation, and code modularization using technologies as Jasmine, Webpack, and Grunt.