REMOTE | Frontend Engineer

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Candidates based in Miami/Ft. Lauderdale area given priority consideration

Role: Frontend Engineer

Commitment: Full Time + for a High-Tech SaaS Company

Reports to: Director of Engineering

Direct Reports: none

Location: Remote | Miami, Florida Headquarters.

Candidates living in the Miami area will be given priority consideration.

Travel: Rarely (TBD). If located in Miami/Ft. Lauderdale area, monthly retrospectives are scheduled in person.

Tech Stack: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Vue 2, Webpack 5, Webpack Module Federation

Who is Addigy?

We are a small, agile, dedicated team extremely focused on our goal: to empower IT professionals to deliver the BEST Apple experience. Our product is a platform that includes a web application, an API, and native Mac, iPhone, and iPad apps. We ship features quickly and regularly and use data to track success. We are continuously listening, learning and evolving our solutions, and our customers love us!

About Addigy | 3 Minute Video

The Work You'll Do:

As industry thought leaders, our culture strives to have the right person/right seat and keep our customers front and center in everything we do. This role is accountable for:

Collaboration with the UI Design Team

• Work closely with the UI design team to ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX mockups.
• Provide input and insights to enhance the user experience.

Implementation of User Interfaces

• Utilize Vue 2 to implement user interfaces based on UI/UX mockups.
• Craft responsive, accessible, and cross-browser compatible interfaces.

Component Development

• Design, build, and maintain highly reusable Vue 2 components, adhering to HTML, CSS and JavaScript best practices.
• Implement input validation when necessary to enhance user experience and data integrity.

Performance Optimization

• Identify and address performance bottlenecks.
• Optimize UI components and interactions for maximum performance.

Code Quality

• Conduct Frontend and UI-related code reviews to ensure code quality and adherence to best practices.

• Stay updated on frontend dependencies and apply necessary security updates to ensure the application's security.

Migration to Vue 3

• Lead the initiative for migrating from Vue 2 to Vue 3, ensuring a smooth transition unnoticeable to end users.

Mentorship

• Mentor Junior UI developers, guiding them in best practices for maintainability, scalability, performance, and security of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

You'll be successful by doing the following things:

• Closely collaborate with other team members, including back-end developers and UX/UI designers.
• Share your expertise with designers and engineers.
• Stay up to date with latest Frontend best practices and technologies
• Demonstrate proficiency with
  • HTML and CSS and their best practices
  • JavaScript, its quirks, and workarounds
  • Vue 2 framework and its core principles
  • Consuming RESTful APIs
  • Webpack and Git

Scorecard

In this role, you'll be accountable for measurements defined by you and your manager.

Some examples could include:

• Increasing the Lighthouse score for the most used pages up to X%
• Increasing the number of views that are fully mobile friendly by X
• Increasing the number of forms implementing suitable input validation by X
• Reducing UI related bug reports by X
• Keeping the number of Node module security issues at less than X

Your possible background:

• Strong collaboration skills partnering with UI designers and backend developers.
• A natural at understanding User Centered Design.
• Experience implementing maintainable, optimized, secure, accessible User Interfaces.
• Enjoy sharing your knowledge with others.
• BA or advanced technical education or certifications.

Bonus if you are:

• Able to create and modify mockups in Sketch
• Familiar with
  • Webpack Module Federation
  • Vue 3
  • GraphQL

What we expect from you:

• • Be positive, adaptable and collaborative.
  • Be ready for the challenge of working in a fun, fast moving, innovative environment.
  • Fast learner, self-motivated, have a sense of urgency, goal-oriented.
  • Be curious. Listen. Ask good questions. Be a critical thinker. Be resourceful.
  • Measure your success! You and your manager will set quarterly Rocks/performance milestones at the beginning of each quarter. At the end of each quarter, you'll review your progress during your Quarterly Conversation.
  • Prepare for and participate in Weekly Same Page (1 on 1) meetings with your manager.
  • Attend daily stand-ups.

What you can expect from us:

All Hands Meetings, Quarterly Goals and Quarterly Reviews, Weekly 1:1 with your manager, Weekly Team Scorecard, No-Recurring Meeting Fridays, full benefits - Open Vacation, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, STD, LTD, Life Insurance, 15% Discount on Apple Products, 3 Month Paid Maternity Leave for Moms, 1 Month Paid Paternity Leave for Dads. We have a diverse team with many opportunities to connect through lots of Slacking, Daily Stand-Ups, Bug Hunts, Hackathons, Fitness Challenges, Community Give-Back Programs and meetings in the Miami Office from time to time with coladas and croquetas. We even have "Lechon Day!"

Next Step: We will begin scheduling zoom interviews with top candidates immediately. Target start date is before year end.

Addigy is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.