Junior / Intermediate Frontend, React Developer

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Detail information about job Junior / Intermediate Frontend, React Developer. Terms and conditions vacancy

Are you a Javascript developer, preferably with experience in React and available for 6 months? We’re looking for someone who’ll gel with the team, has junior to mid-level experience, and is a self-starter who can give and take constructive criticism.

Our client is a fresh, dynamic, forward-thinking company building an innovative online investment management platform. Its a small, 6 person developer team of mostly Senior Rails Developers. Their technical team is in Wellington while their marketing and operations are in Sydney.

At first, you will be working mostly under the React Lead, but come October, he will be on leave for 4+ months and the whole team will be at your disposal. You may be working with a designer, or take the lead, depending on the project and your comfort level, though guidance is always available.

They have a large Ruby on Rails application that they are slowly refactoring to, and building new features in, a React ecosystem. The majority of your contribution will be to interfaces built around reporting and CRUD interaction within the main financial product communicating via a RESTful API or dumb, static components. They do maintain a few other applications – static websites, etc., that you may end up working on.

Responsibilities:

Build new components in React that take inspiration from and improve existing Rails views and components.
Ensure the feasibility of designs for migrating said views from Rails to React and eventually implement them.
You will not create pixel-perfect implementations, rather functional and sensible implementations. Your feedback is expected!
Grow our reusable UI components library using `styled-components` and `storybook`.
Maintain, or grow, test coverage of new and existing components.
Ensure mobile responsiveness of all components created.

Requirements:

Experience working with React and JSX – we use 16.4.1 as of writing.
Experience with modern ECMAScript – we use Babel via Webpack.
Experience consuming RESTful APIs asynchronously.
Experience writing readable, clean code. Our linting will force you into this a fair bit.
Experience working with a very standard git flow. You will open PRs, request reviews, and get them!
Ability to work in an agile environment and split your work out into bite sized projects.
A desire to learn and adapt to what you don't already know.

Nice to Have:

Basic understanding of views and controllers in Rails.
You will work alongside Rails quite often, but not touch much Rails code, and others can pair with you whenever necessary.
A keen eye for design or design implementation.
Experience with `styled-components`. Experience with `jest` + `enzyme`. remote html

On offer is a great salary but also the opportunity to really progress your career.  
To be eligible for this position you must currently reside in NZ and have a legal right to work in this country.

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Contact Suzy on DDI +64 9 3205725