Mid-Senior Frontend Developer

Mid-Senior Frontend Developer at Ludwig in Italy.

Role Summary

• We are searching for an experienced, talented Senior-level Frontend Engineer to join Ludwig 's engineering team who will:
• Architect, design and develop web frontend applications (cross-browser, cross-device and cross-platform solutions) according to given requirements
• Evangelize the best frontend practices and support more junior developers
• Create, improve, and refine workflows and processes for delivering quality software on time

Responsibilities

How you will do this

• You'll be part of an agile, multidisciplinary team
• You prioritize your work with the team and its product owner, weighing both the business and technical value of each task
• Write clean and well organized code, respecting code guidelines and good practices, in order to guarantee quality, reliability, scalability and easy maintenance

Requirements

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of working in (or leading) teams that rapidly ship high-quality web-based software that solves important problems for large numbers of users. Startup experience is a plus
• 3+ years of relevant experience and a strong track record of working with HTML, CSS, JavaScript ES6, React, CSS-in-JS, Redux, PWA .
• Experience with Chrome Extensions, Electron, SASS, Typescript and iOS is a plus
• Solid command of web technologies and object-oriented design
• Experience with REST-based APIs
• Excellent understanding of Git as version control system and GitFlow as branching model
• Proficiency in both Italian and English

We're based in Palermo, but most of the job will carried out remotely (smart working).

PROCESS

• We'd like to read more from you, your experience, and why you believe you're fit for the position we are offering (sending your CV or Resume without a cover letter will result in an exclusion. Recommendation letters are a plus)
• Then, we will ask a selected number of developers to arrange a Skype meeting.
• You can start working immediately.

Benefits

• Remote Work Opportunities with an ultra flexible working culture
• Full-time contract | We are also open to full-time freelance collaborations
• Competitive salary (Gross annual earnings 30-35k€, depending on seniority) + company benefits
• Looking for an exciting new project with plenty of room for growth? Have a true passion for the innovative startup environment?
• Ludwig is an Italy-based startup working in the field of Natural Language Processing. We built a sentence search engine for English writing that is used by 3 million unique people per month from 200 countries.
• We founded Ludwig in 2014 and bootstrapped it until reaching profitability.
• There are a lot of new challenges coming in the next years and we need reinforcements!
• We are a small and very cohesive team working remotely with Skype/Trello/Telephone and we meet regularly, once every 45 days, to do team meetings in selected cities.