Job Description

We are looking for an AngularJS Developer responsible for the client side of our service. Your primary focus will be to implement a complete user interface in the form of a mobile and desktop web app, with a focus on performance. Your main duties will include creating modules and components and coupling them together into a functional app. The artistic design will be delivered to you, together with a few HTML templates, but we will ask for your help in regard to animations, CSS, and final HTML output. You will work in a team with the back-end developer, and communicate with the API using standard methods. A thorough understanding of all of the components of our platform and infrastructure is required.

Responsibilities

• Delivering a complete front end application

• Ensuring high performance on mobile and desktop

• Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML and CSS

• Coordinating the workflow between the graphic designer, the HTML coder, and yourself

• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API

• Communicating with external web services

  
  

Skills and Qualifications

• Proficiency with JavaScript and HTML5 and CSS

• Professional, precise communication skills

• Deep knowledge of AngularJS practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience

• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components

• Ensuring a clear dependency chain, in regard to the app logic as well as the file system

• Ability to provide SEO solutions for single-page apps

• Extensive knowledge of CSS and JS methods for providing performant visual effects and keeping the framerate above 30fps at all times

• Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system

• Validating user actions on the client side and providing responsive feedback

• Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed

• Creating custom, general-use modules and components that extend the elements and modules of core AngularJS

• Experience with all levels of operation available to the front-end, such as from creating XHRs in vanilla JS to using a custom wrapper around $resource

• Experience with building the infrastructure for serving the front-end app and assets

• Architecting and automating the build process for production, using task runners or scripts

• Documenting the code inline using JSDoc or other conventions

• Writing extensive unit tests using automated TDD tasks

• Creating e2e test suites for all components, and running them with Protractor (or a well reasoned alternative)

• Creating configuration, build, and test scripts for Continuous Integration environments

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