Senior Front-end Engineer (12 month contract)
Education Perfect, New Zealand

• Contributing directly to development, improvement and maintenance of the Education Perfect software platform, as needed
• Ensuring software meets all requirements of quality, security, maintainability, extensibility etc.
• Troubleshooting code level problems quickly and efficiently
• Proactively contribute to continuous improvement of the development processes and tools
• Software testing, including automated tests and manual testing, as required
• Create technical documentation for reference and reporting
• Other duties or responsibilities required at the discretion of your manager

Requirements

• Practical experience in micro-frontend architectures and transformation of monolithic applications, a big plus.
• Expertise in one or more component-based frameworks from the JavaScript ecosystem (ideally React).
• Experience in evolving and implementing design systems.
• Experience with accessibility standards.
• Expertise in Typescript, JavaScript, CSS amp; HTML.
• Understanding of UX principles and intuition for great user experiences.
• Experience with automated testing.
• Familiarity with backend languages and frameworks (in particular C# / .NET / GraphQL) is a bonus
• Understands scaling, reliability, and maintenance trade-offs as they occur in practice

• Consistently helps new hires and more junior engineers to level up and become more proficient over time
• Offers demos, talks and recommendations to help their own team and others be more productive and ship better product

• Helps to continuously maintain and improve quality across the stack
• Performs regular interviews for positions on the same team, providing detailed and useful feedback. Takes on significant share of on call duties, 5Y review and other ‘housekeeping’ tasks

• Understands customer needs and motivations
• Understands how engineering projects contribute to business goals. Embraces iterative product development

• BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies
• Ability to work independently and multi-task effectively
• Flexible and willing to accept a change in priorities as necessary
• Strong attention to detail
• Experience with software design and development in a test- driven environment
• Knowledge of coding languages, frameworks, tools and systems of EP’s Technology Stack
• Ability to learn new languages and technologies
• Excellent communication skills
• Resourcefulness and troubleshooting aptitude

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