Junior Frontend Developer

As a Junior Frontend Developer in the UX Matrix department, you will work with JavaScript, JS frameworks like React and AngularJS, Webpack/Vite, and NodeJS to build cutting-edge online casino platforms. Responsibilities include development, ensuring code quality, performing code reviews, refactoring, and focusing on scalability and performance. You will also be involved in code documentation, resolving production issues, and collaborating with team members and product owners.

Must Have

• Adhere to pre-established task delivery deadlines
• Estimate development time for assigned tasks
• Implement assigned tasks as closely as possible to the estimation
• Test implemented tasks on all necessary devices and popular browsers
• Prevent reoccurrence of tasks and incidents in production
• Add development time spent on tasks in Jira
• Learn, understand and apply company/team coding standards
• Adapt code to international coding standards if no guide exists
• Perform daily code reviews and approve Git tasks
• Understand the importance of code reviews and code functionality
• Learn to navigate code written by someone else and identify its functionality
• Measure app performance with the help of tools
• Learn and put into practice methods to improve stability and performance
• Write basic code documentation (naming and explaining technical solutions)
• Resolve urgent production issues
• Handle incidents according to defined SLAs and project processes
• Contribute to knowledge sharing and information exchange within the team
• Maintain close collaboration with other team members and Product Owner/Project Manager
• Participate in daily meetings to discuss/identify issues and solutions
• Collect, structure, and analyze information; ensure access for team members
• Provide assistance to testing and support teams in resolving technical issues
• Share knowledge in various forms (feedback, presentations, recommendations)
• Estimate and keep track of time spent on each task using official company tools
• At least one-year previous experience in a similar role
• Previous experience with HTML and CSS3
• Previous experience in creating "mobile-first approach" applications
• Previous experience in creating interfaces using JavaScript
• Experience in creating fast performing interfaces using JS frameworks and libraries (ReactJS, AngularJS, VueJS, Stencil.js, Astro)
• Proven interest in testing, code review, and code quality
• Ability to work in a Kanban system with fast switching priorities
• Having worked with REST web services and/or web APIs
• Experience with all stages of software development lifecycle
• Passion for learning and perfecting skills
• Good English, both written and spoken
• Teamwork skills
• Ability to concentrate
• Ability to understand technical architecture
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously
• Analytical thinking
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Open to giving and receiving feedback
• Self-sufficient

Perks & Benefits

• 33 days off per year, including public holidays, rising to 43 by year 5
• 3 sick leave days per year (without a doctor’s note)
• Flexible hybrid work schedule after passing probation
• 1 year 100% WFH for mothers returning to work soon after having a child
• 13 weeks of 100% WFH for fathers after the child is born
• Lunch allowance
• Medical Subscription
• Gym membership
• Fruits and Sweeties Days
• Access to online learning platforms Udemy for Business and O’Reilly
• Budget for external training
• Massage and Physical Therapy at work
• Frequent free-bar parties
• Annual whole-company parties
• Fun corner: PS5, lots of board games, pool table, Ping Pong table

Project description

You are part of the UX Matrix department, the department that manages everything related to the front-end: from some banners or the need for a logo to a fully functional, cutting-edge online casino. You will be working mainly with JavaScript and JS frameworks / libraries, Webpack / Vite, and NodeJS, using HTTP2 and Web Sockets APIs as the transfer protocols between the server and the client. We deploy containerized apps via Docker, Kubernetes, and a continuous delivery pipeline. It’s an exciting product (especially for us and hopefully for you) and we’re looking for people who are ready to face a challenge, analyze existing functionality and transform and adapt it into something great using the latest stack of Web technologies.

Responsibilities

You'll be part of one of the core development teams working on our proprietary React-based (at time mentioned) framework and also a cool project built on top of AngularJS (at time mentioned), both aimed at efficiently delivering white-label websites. Your work will involve tackling intricate challenges such as scalability and performance, driving innovation, and significantly impacting the direction and quality of the platform.

Amongst the most important responsibilities of the role you will have are:

• Development – You adhere to pre-established task delivery deadlines; estimating the development time for assigned tasks; implementing assigned tasks as closely as possible to the previously provided estimation; testing implemented tasks on all necessary devices and popular browsers, preventing reoccurrence of tasks and incidents in production; adding development time spent on tasks in Jira.
• Code quality - You learn, understand and apply company / team coding standards that are provided by the senior/lead and adapt your own code accordingly. If no code guide exists, you should be able to adapt to international coding standards.
• Code review - Performing daily code reviews and, together with other responsible team members, approve Git tasks if all issues identified during code review have been resolved; understanding the importance of code reviews and can understand what the code is supposed to do.
• Refactoring - You learn to navigate code written by someone else and identify its functionality.
• Scalability, stability and performance – You can measure app performance with the help of tools. You have basic scalability concepts, you learn and put into practice methods that can improve the stability and performance of the project.
• Code documentation - You know how to write basic code documentation. That can be reduced to: naming and explaining the technical solution that was chosen to resolve the task/issue/bug.
• Operational - Resolving urgent production issues; you can handle incidents according to the defined SLAs and project processes (the complexity refers to system/platform complexity, technical solution complexity or business knowledge).
• Communication - Contributing to knowledge sharing and information exchange within the team; maintaining close collaboration with other team members as well as the responsible Product Owner/Project Manager; participating in daily meetings with the team and discuss/identify both issues and solutions to resolve them; Collect, structure, and analyze information; ensure other team members have access to the collected information; provide assistance to testing and support teams in resolving any technical issues; knowledge about how to share knowledge in many forms: feedback, presentations, recommendation of books and articles, recommendation of events, lessons learned etc.
• Time tracking – You estimate and keep track of the amount of time spent on each task and log it using the official company tools.

Requirements

• At least one-year previous experience in a similar role.
• Previous experience with HTML and CSS3.
• Previous experience in creating "mobile-first approach" applications.
• Previous experience in creating interfaces using JavaScript.
• Experience in creating fast performing interfaces using JS frameworks and libraries such as (but not limited to): ReactJS / AngularJS / VueJS / Stencil.js / Astro
• Proven interest in testing, code review, and code quality.
• Ability to work in a Kanban system with fast switching priorities.
• Having worked with REST web services and/or web APIs.
• Experience with all stages of software development lifecycle.
• Passion for learning and perfecting skills.
• Good English, both written and spoken.
• Teamwork skills.
• Ability to concentrate.
• Ability to understand technical architecture.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Analytical thinking.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Open to giving and receiving feedback.
• Self-sufficient.

Work Life Balance:

• 33 days off per year, including public holidays, rising to 43 by year 5 inside the company
• 3 sick leave days per year (without a doctor’s note)
• Enjoy a flexible hybrid work schedule after passing probation
• If return to work soon after having child, 1 year 100% WFH for mothers
• WFH after the child is born – for fathers: 13 weeks of 100% WFH (from the day of the birth of the child

Benefits and perks:

• Lunch allowance
• Medical Subscription
• Gym membership
• Fruits and Sweeties Days
• Access to online learning platforms Udemy for Business and O’Reilly and budget for external training
• Massage and Physical Therapy at work
• Frequent free-bar parties, annual whole-company parties (have previously rented our own planes to get everyone together!)
• Fun corner: PS5, lots of board games, pool table, Ping Pong table