About our client

The company is the world’s largest peer-to-peer learning community for students, parents and teachers. At its group of websites around the world, students connect to both receive and offer help with homework problems and questions. The unique opportunity for students to freely ask questions and gain the confidence that comes from helping others and inspires students to learn in a collaborative community that receives more than 350 million users each month.

They’re looking for a strong Front-End Developer to prototype and create new products and improved tools that ensure the overall safety, quality, and trustworthiness of our client’s community and user-generated content.

Our client’s core Q&A product is powered by hundreds of millions of contributors every month. To support the overall safety, quality, and engagement of our client top users, the Community Product Team is reimagining the contributor tools available for most valuable users and developing all new ways to scale their expertise across the entire company ecosystem. You will play a key role in creating new tools for the best users community, new admin interfaces for the Community team, and ensuring this combined system delivers increased educational value to all our client users.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work closely with software engineers and designers to define component APIs, provide feedback and code reviews, make recommendations, propose improvements and implement them
• Work with engineering, product, design, and other team members on how to create, improve and maintain accessibility standards
• Implementation of accessible UI components and cross-cutting features of our design system
• Document the accessibility standards, contribute to training materials and onboarding and knowledge sharing
• Help build internal tools to empower all of engineering and design to create accessible features

WE EXPECT YOU TO HAVE

Required:

• 3+ years of professional experience as a Frontend Developer
• building UI components libraries with focus on accessibility
• with best practices and standards for Web Accessibility
• with semantic HTML and aria attributes
• solving cross-browser/platform UI compatibility issues
• testing with JavaScript frameworks
• with web page performance optimization
• in CSS Flexbox Layout
• in Responsive Web Design

Preferred: 

• Experience in CSS Grid Layout
• Experience in UI animations and CSS performance optimization
• Experience in mobile-first approach in Responsive Web Design
• Experience in developing design systems

Attributes:

• High level of self-organization, ability to make your own decisions
• Good communication skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Team player attitude

Skills and systems:

• Ability to research, brainstorm, prototype, and create new solutions
• Knowledge of best practices in Web and Mobile Web development
• Knowledge of modern JavaScript and React framework
• Experience in modern CSS and Pre & Post CSS processors
• Typescript
• Flow
• Continuous Delivery
• Fluency in English

ADDITIONAL DETAILS:

• Salary: 11 500 – 16 000 gross monthly (employment contract)
• Some of our client benefits (varies slightly depending on the location):
  • Personal development budget 800$ per year +  unlimited time off policy for participation in conferences and workshops and access to an online learning platform with courses from Udemy, Harvard Manage Mentor and many others
  • Fully paid private health care packages for you and your family (dental care included) provided by Luxmed
  • Fully paid life insurance provided by Warta
  • Multisport Plus card
  • Access to the Mental health Helpline – providing virtual support of external psychologists, psychotherapists, and coaches
  • AskHenry services – personal concierge services to help you to settle your everyday matters (like Ikea shopping or shoemaker visit)
  • Possibility to join one of our Employee Resource Groups and initiatives
  • If needed, additional budget for work remote work accessories