Frontend developer (Vue.JS) remote

The Company

Soramitsu is a blockchain technology company based in Japan. We are focusing on products for financial markets based on the Hyperledger Iroha blockchain platform. Two main product streams are digital asset management solutions (including innovative payment solutions) and digital identity platform that supports transparent and secure exchange of information according to the financial KYC requirements. The company was established in 2016 and currently employs more than 80 people in Japan, Russia, Cambodia and other countries.

The Role

We are looking for a Front-end Developer that has experience with critical production systems (i.e. payment systems, B2B systems, Telco or similar systems). The project is related to finance and blockchain. The responsibility would be to design, implement and support software production solutions that will be used by our clients, write tests for the system and guarantee high quality of functional and non-functional characteristics of produced code, perform code review for other developers, take part in making architectural decisions, transfer knowledge to other team members. The candidate will also need to select and integrate frameworks and libraries which will be the part of software systems and to prove his/her selection.

Tasks

• Design, implement and support client-side applications
• Write tests which will cover major amount of functionality and non-functional requirements
• Designing architecture of new client-side applications and features
• Participate in architecture meetings and take part in making architecture decisions
• Perform optimisation analysis and make optimizations in code
• Perform issue- and bug-fixing
• Provide estimations for all related tasks
• Provide feedback and improvement ideas for project life cycle
• Perform code review for other frontend developers

Requirements

• English B1+
• A bachelor’s degree or higher;
• 3+ years of experience in client-side JavaScript development;
• 1+ year of pertinent experience at the similar position;
• Perfect knowledge of details in Vue framework, HTML and CSS;
• Knowledge of software engineering processes;
• Experience in designing software solutions.
• Technical competences and qualifications
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills;
• Deep knowledge of Javascript language;
• Good understanding of building tools, for example Webpack;
• NodeJS knowledge and how it differs from developing client-side applications is a plus;
• Experience in optimizing web assets and content (chunking, server-side (pre)rendering, lazy loading, etc.)
• Skilled at writing tests (test-driven approach is preferred) and using UI testing frameworks;
• Proficiency in html/css markup

Project's technology stack: Vue, TypeScript, SCSS,  Electron,  Cypress and Jest

Working Conditions

• Flexible 40-hour work week
• Possibility of remote work
• Permanent, full-time position
• Relaxed work environment
• English courses