Software Engineer, Frontend - (UK - Remote)

At a Glance

Us: Profitable and funded startup of 70+ people. Remote team, mainly based in the UK. YC alumni (summer 2019). We’re on a mission to connect people around the world to make trustworthy data more accessible and facilitate world-changing research. 4x yearly growth, all driven by word-of-mouth.

The Role
We're looking for an experienced frontend engineer. In the role you will play a key part in developing and guiding our product. You should have broad practical knowledge in different areas of software development. We're looking for a developer whose existing skills, experience, and knowledge will complement and support our growing team. As we’re an early stage startup you’ll have the opportunity to significantly influence the trajectory of our products.

Our core product is a single page Javascript app using the Vue.js framework. We use Jest and Cypress for testing, and CircleCI for continuous integration. You aren't expected to be familiar with all of these technologies and will have the time and support to develop your skills on the job.

What you'll be doing

Building and maintaining our frontend codebases, primarily our single page app (https://app.prolific.co) written with Vue.js.
Collaborating with a multi-disciplined team, including user researchers, designers, engineers, data-analysts and product managers.
Working closely with designers to create and maintain our design system.
Writing unit and end-to-end tests for your code - we have a strong testing culture.
Improving our existing systems so that they can scale as we grow.
Sharing best practices to improve our products and processes.
Designing the architecture of new services as part of a team.

What you’ll bring:

An interest in shipping products that make an impact on users’ lives.
Ability to write clean and maintainable code in Javascript or Typescript.
Experience of using at least one modern reactive framework in production (Vue/React/Angular etc).
Some experience with testing.
Experience of building web applications or platforms.
Strong attention to detail. You have a passion for translating designs into components that our users will love.